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Olivia Sophie Rafferty / ai fray:
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library used for training was not  —  Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months  —  The video-game division's latest round of layoffs is expected next week … Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie  —  Apple customers aren't thrilled they're getting an ad from the Apple Wallet app promoting the tech giant's Original Film, “F1 the Movie.”
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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more  —  John Oliver explains why you've been seeing more AI-generated content online, the harm it can do, and - sadly - why it is threatening his marriage.
RT Watson / The Block:
Chainlink and Mastercard announce a partnership to enable card users to buy crypto “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion”  —  - Chainlink and Mastercard have partnered to enable card users to buy crypto “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion.”
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Researchers: “chain of thought” techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning  —  Anthropic, Google and OpenAI deploy ‘chains of thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage  —  Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day or next-day delivery to “tens of millions” of people who live “in more than 4,000” smaller US towns by the end of 2026  —  The company is bringing faster delivery to thousands of small towns and rural communities.
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations  —  We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots.
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a bundle with the $299 Meta Quest 3S in a new color, available in “extremely limited” quantities  —  Last year, Microsoft revealed it was working on an Xbox edition Quest VR headset with Meta of Facebook fame.
Google Developers Blog:
The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDKs  —  Today at Open Source Summit North America, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agent2Agent project with Amazon Web Services …
Financial Times:
The UK CMA proposes to designate Google with “strategic market status” in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime  —  Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority's plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects:
A look at 2025's AI models and what's next: OpenAI's o3 is a technical breakthrough, agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow  —  Summer is always a slow time for the tech industry.  OpenAI seems fully in line with this, with their open model “[taking] …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta available exclusively in Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area excluding highways, after launching in Austin on March 4  —  Atlanta is the second city to host Uber and Waymo's burgeoning partnership. … Uber customers in Atlanta now have the option …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M  —  Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment.  Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: PBS is cutting its current budget by 21% and reducing dues paid by local stations by $35M to deal with Congress' decision to eliminate ~$500M in funding

Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Taylor Swift's podcast debut on New Heights, co-hosted by Travis Kelce, shows the format is an appealing option for stars instead of late-night TV and magazines

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Gannett is launching a morning newscast, Connecting America, on its USA Today streaming channel and on YouTube, on August 18; it will air weekdays 7am-9am ET

More News

Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Abridge, which uses AI to automate doctors' notetaking, raised $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, after raising $250M at a $2.75B valuation in February

Earlier Picks

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Court filings from in-ear hardware device startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI device
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott:
Microsoft details Mu, an on-device small language model used in Copilot+ PCs to power the agent in Settings, mapping natural language queries to function calls
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
Fiserv aims to launch its own stablecoin by the end of 2025 and partners with PayPal and Circle to develop new products for financial institutions and merchants
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating “leading PC storefronts”
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