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Bluetooth SIG releases its Bluetooth 6.0 spec, which has a Channel Sounding feature that could help Find My apps locate items with “centimeter-level accuracy” — The Bluetooth community is dedicated to evolving its technology, introducing more features, and including more devices … | CNN: |
The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence … | Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must face a class action age bias lawsuit by ~150 older workers laid off when Elon Musk acquired the company in 2022 — A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel cancels plans to use its Intel 20A process node for its consumer Arrow Lake processors and instead plans to use external nodes, likely from TSMC — Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC. — In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own ‘Intel 20A’ process node … | Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back X ad spending in 2025 and 14% plan to pull budgets in 2024, over concerns about content and trust in disseminated info — Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated| Helen Bushby / BBC: |
The UK CMA launches an investigation into whether Ticketmaster breached consumer protection law with the sale of Oasis tickets, including via “dynamic pricing” — The UK competition regulator has launched an investigation into the sale of Oasis tickets, including the use of “dynamic pricing”.| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
YouTube begins limiting repeated video recommendations about fitness levels, body weights, physical features, and more to teens globally, expanding from the US — Platform will ensure algorithms do not keep pushing similar content to young viewers, even though it does not breach guidelines| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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US prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs by fake bands to get $10M in royalties from streaming services — Federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with gaming the system to win royalties from streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.| Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
Verizon agrees to acquire rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B including debt; Frontier reported $5.8B in 2023 revenue — - The deal has an enterprise value of $20 billion including debt — Verizon to buy fiber rival to expand high-speed internet| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Arkansas-based Laravel, known for its open-source PHP web framework released in June 2011 and which now has 35 employees, raised a $57M Series A from Accel — Taylor Otwell has done some risky demos in his life. — In a world where nearly every onstage demo is very controlled, Otwell … | Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
PayPal expands into US point-of-sale payments by integrating its debit card with Apple Wallet and offering 5% cash back on $1K/month for a chosen product group — PayPal (PYPL.O) is expanding into U.S. point-of-sale payments by integrating its debit card with Apple's mobile wallet … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect against copying creators' likeness, including their faces and voices, and plans to offer AI scraping controls — YouTube on Thursday announced a new set of AI detection tools to protect creators, including artists, actors … | Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in Disney's March quarter, or ~43% of DTC revenue — Data trove sheds light on entertainment giant's operations, and exposes personal data of some staff and customers| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Heidelberg-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in 2023, pivots to helping clients use AI tools, instead of trying to outperform models from OpenAI and others — - For years, Aleph Alpha was hailed as Europe's rival to OpenAI — Then it opted to stop relying on costly large-language models| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Cybersecurity company Pango Group acquires all of Kaspersky's US customers, or ~1M users, after the Commerce Department banned Kaspersky's software in the US — - Pango owns and offers a portfolio of cybersecurity products, including VPNs, antivirus software and identity theft protection tools.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has 1M+ paid corporate ChatGPT users across ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu, up from 600K paid ChatGPT Team and Enterprise users in April 2024 — The startup introduced an enterprise product a year ago in a bid to boost revenue. … OpenAI now has more than 1 million paid users … | New York Times: |
Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis — In places like San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, robot taxis are navigating city streets, each without a driver behind the steering wheel.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
DJI unveils Neo, a $200 drone aimed at content creators and casual users with features like palm takeoff, voice control, ActiveTrack, phone control, and more — It's simple to use but offers advanced features like smartphone and voice control. — DJI has just unveiled the Neo … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered search feature in Google Photos announced in May, in “early access” to select customers in the US — First announced at Google's I/O developer conference this May, Google Photos' AI-powered search feature, “Ask Photos,” is rolling out to users starting today.| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
As national legislation on deepfake porn crawls through Congress, 39 US states have introduced laws to deter the creation and sharing of nonconsensual deepfakes — Legislation addressing the crisis of deepfake porn is being proposed, passing, and failing at the state level all over the US.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to “cultivate” AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, and plans an AI lab, a VC org, and more — The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark … | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Applied Digital, which builds and leases data-center space and has started an AI cloud-computing service with Nvidia chips, raised $160M from Nvidia and others — Capital is expected to help data-center and AI cloud company grow — Artificial-intelligence chip giant Nvidia is joining … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
A CJEU adviser sides with Italy's antitrust authority, saying that Google refusing to provide third-party access to Android Auto may breach EU competition rules — An adviser to Europe's top court on Thursday sided with Italy's antitrust authority, saying Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …
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