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A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model — Microsoft (MSFT.O) has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission …
More: The Verge, The Guardian, The Economic Times, Silicon Republic, Popular Information, Music Ally, Digit, ExchangeWire.com, SiliconANGLE, The Hans India, The Hollywood Reporter, KnowTechie, The A.V. Club, Los Angeles Times, VICE, Publishers Weekly, Digital Journal, Music Business Worldwide, The Guardian, Deadline, Jane Friedman, Reclaim The Net, Windows Report, Music Ally, Business Today, The Information, Android Headlines, The American Bazaar, Semafor, 404 Media, and Sherwood News. Forums: Slashdot
| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train Llama is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments — Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered …
More: Wired, TechCrunch, Engadget, Financial Times, Mashable, United States District Court, Northern District of California, Associated Press, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, The Verge, PC Gamer, Bloomberg, Verdict, Proactive, Variety, Tech Xplore, The Information, Maginative, Cryptopolitan, implicator.ai, CNBC, Digit, Bloomberg Law, The Japan Times, and Washington Post
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Forums: r/technology, r/law, r/law, r/books, and Slashdot
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
More: PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, Associated Press, and Law.com
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| Anthony Robledo / USA Today: |
The Trump Organization replaces T1 Phone's “made in America” language on Trump Mobile's site with “brought to life right here in the USA” and “proudly American” — President Donald Trump's newly launched cellular service is defending its claims …
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Business Today, Mashable, Tech Times, PhoneArena, PCMag, AppleInsider, CNET, and Android Authority
Forums: r/politics, r/Destiny, r/TrumpIsPoor, and r/technology
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors charge Kai West, a UK man known as IntelBroker who was arrested in February in France, with conspiring to steal data from dozens of companies — A 25-year-old British man known as “IntelBroker” was accused by US authorities of conspiring with a group of hackers to steal data … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Report: on June 23, French police arrested hackers ShinyHunters, Hollow, Noct, and Depressed, allegedly involved in operating the BreachForums cybercrime forum — The French police have reportedly arrested five operators of the BreachForum cybercrime forum, a website used by cybercriminals …
Source: Le Parisien. More: The Record, Infosecurity, Hackread, BleepingComputer, SiliconANGLE, The Cyber Express, Cyber Daily, Cyber Security News, and The Register
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that lets dataset holders detail how machines can or cannot reuse their content, such as for training AI models — Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era.
More: Creative Commons, Creative Commons on GitHub, PetaPixel, and Maginative
Mastodon: @tomayac@toot.cafe, @RichiH@chaos.social, @creativecommons …, and @creativecommons …. LinkedIn: Zeina Tabbara
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
FHFA Director William Pulte orders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to explore crypto as an asset for single-family mortgage applications without converting it to USD — In a landmark shift for the U.S. housing finance system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has issued a directive ordering Fannie Mae …
More: Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoNinjas, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, PYMNTS.com, Watcher Guru, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, Benzinga, The Block, Cryptopolitan, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, ZeroHedge News, Coinpedia Fintech News, American Banker, CoinDesk, CNN, CryptoSlate, Associated Press, Bitcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, and CoinGape
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| Callan Quinn / Decrypt: |
Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week — Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, for its superintelligence efforts — Social-media giant has hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai for its superintelligence effort — Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg … | Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Sony says its PlayStation Plus three-tier overhaul has “surpassed our expectations” and that the $160/year Premium tier has grown 18% in the past 12 months — Sony kicks off PS Plus' 15th anniversary by chatting with Game File about the past, present and future … | Amber Neely / AppleInsider: |
US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote — Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan “Open App Markets Act” …
More: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn …, The Mac Observer, Tech Times, Engadget, Phone Scoop, Broadband Breakfast, 9to5Mac, and iClarified
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Anthropic now lets Claude app users build, host, and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude via Artifacts, launching in beta on Free, Pro, and Max tiers — The upgrade, launching in beta, builds upon Anthropic's Artifacts feature introduced last year that lets you see and interact with what you ask Claude to make.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches optional Meta AI-generated summaries of unread messages in the US; Meta can't read the messages and summaries are hidden from other chat users — Meta announced on Wednesday that it's adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
A look at Tokyo-based Nittobo, currently the only supplier in the world of the highest-end “T-glass”, a material essential for making high-powered AI servers — TAIPEI/TOKYO — Top executives from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft have been visiting Japan over the past year.
X: @nikkeiasia
| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress — People who talk to Anthropic's Claude chatbot about emotional issues tend to grow more positive as the conversation unfolds … | Financial Times: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying “human verification is top of mind for us right now” — Chief Steve Huffman warns of ‘arms race’ to protect its devoted online communities from AI-generated content Reddit is in an … | BBC: |
Aylo, owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, will add “government approved age assurance methods” in the UK by July 25 to comply with the Online Safety Act — Aylo, the owner of adult sites Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube, says it will introduce “government approved age assurance methods” in the UK.
More: Telegraph, Press Association, The Independent, and Silicon UK. Mastodon: @abbiistabbii@blahaj.zone
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI — Silicon Valley is at odds over whether AI can reach and exceed humanlike intelligence, a milestone with major implications … | Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
A look at Zhipu AI, the China-backed startup offering AI tools to governments globally, as OpenAI says Zhipu is on the “front line” of the global AI race — OpenAI is putting a spotlight on an under-the-radar artificial intelligence startup that it believes is on the “front line” …
More: South China Morning Post, The Prompt, and Axios
| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Kalshi raised $185M led by Paradigm at a $2B valuation; sources: Polymarket is completing a $200M+ investment led by Founders Fund at a ~$1B pre-money valuation — Kalshi Inc., a prediction market that competes with Polymarket, said it has raised $185 million at a valuation of $2 billion.
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X: @mansourtarek_, @kylesamani, @joshuaogundu, @cailen, @alfred_lin, @mikeippolito_, @tyler_did_it, and @thestalwart
LinkedIn: Sara Slane and Yueqi Yang
| Decca Muldowney / The Verge: |
How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic — ‘It is a gift. They stole it without my permission.’ … In the online world of fanfiction writers, who pen stories inspired …
Bluesky: @bamabelleng
| Grace Sihombing / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia changes rules to require e-commerce platforms like TikTok Shop to withhold income tax from sellers, instead of asking sellers to pay the government — A rule change in Indonesia will require online merchants to pay income tax to e-commerce platforms rather than directly to the government …
More: Reuters and Comparitech
| Sam Blum / Inc: |
Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with “spammy behavior” from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work — How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain ‘spammy behavior’ from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini.
Bluesky: @matt-dragon and @darthbluesky
| Menaka Doshi / Bloomberg: |
Amazon launches at-home diagnostic services in six Indian cities in partnership with Orange Health Labs, marking its entry into India's diagnostics market — With diagnostic services the e-commerce giant now offers a ‘trifecta of digital health’ … Will Amazon Draw Blood?| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Leaked memo: Intel will shut down its automotive business and lay off “most” employees working in the unit, the latest step in Intel's downsizing — Intel will shut down its small automotive business and lay off the majority of the workers in that segment, the latest step in the chipmaker's dramatic downsizing.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, The Hans India, eeNews Europe, Fortune, Tech Xplore, Moneycontrol, The Register, PC Games Insider, PC Gamer, Portland startups …, Breitbart, TechCrunch, and Tom's Hardware
Bluesky: @sam.abuelsamid.com. Forums: r/cars, r/technology, r/Polestar, r/hardware, r/intelstock, and Slashdot
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