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Tests reveal that Grok 4 seems to search for Elon Musk's views online when asked about sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's opinions — During xAI's launch of Grok 4 on Wednesday night, Elon Musk said — while live-streaming the event on his social media platform …
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Forums: r/Fauxmoi, r/grok, r/artificial, and r/politics
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query — If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find …
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| Steve Newman / Second Thoughts: |
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster — Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains — The buzz about AI coding tools is unrelenting.
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| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group — A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested in France at the request of the United States, which accused …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning M5 MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, a new Mac external monitor, new low-end iPads and M4 iPad Airs, and an A19 iPhone 17e for H1 2026 — Apple Inc. is planning an ambitious pipeline of new products for release during the first half of 2026, including a new low-end iPhone, multiple iPads and upgraded Macs.
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| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Recording: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told staff that Intel is no longer “in the top 10 semiconductor companies” and it is “too late” to catch up to Nvidia — New CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that he doesn't consider Intel among the leading chip companies … | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
An Apple-backed study finds combining Apple Watch's heart rate sensor with a new Wearable Behavior Model achieves 92% accuracy for pregnancy detection, and more — A new Apple-supported study argues that your behavior data (movement, sleep, exercise, etc.) can often be a stronger health signal …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Belkin says it is ending support for its Wemo smart home products and app on January 31, 2026; four devices will continue to function via HomeKit over Thread — If your home has any of Belkin's Wemo products, the connected devices will cease to operate in early 2026.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots show biased results against President Trump — Missouri's AG is barely even trying to pretend this isn't censorship. … Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts — The UK's Online Safety Act requires platforms with adult content to implement age verification by July 25th.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Meta won't propose more changes to its pay-or-consent model in the EU, and could face fresh antitrust charges in the coming weeks and hefty daily fines — Meta Platforms (META.O) is very unlikely to offer more changes to its pay-or-consent model, meaning it is almost certain to be hit … | Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank is “going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin”, Cognition's AI coding assistant, as Wall Street adopts AI — The newest hire at Goldman Sachs isn't human. — The bank is testing an autonomous software engineer …
More: Benzinga, WinBuzzer, and Cryptopolitan
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance wrote the smart contract for USD1, a stablecoin launched by Trump's World Liberty, and promoted it to its 275M users, before CZ sought a pardon — The exchange has been a coder, a promoter and an early adopter for World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, people familiar with the matter say.
More: Cryptopolitan, The Crypto Times, and Bitcoin Insider
| PYMNTS.com: |
Moment, which offers fixed income portfolio management software to financial institutions, raised a $36M Series B led by Index, taking its total funding to $56M — Moment has raised $36 million in new funding for its fixed income automation offering. — Get the Full Story| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: AWS plans to launch a marketplace where startups can offer AI agents to AWS customers, with Anthropic as a partner, at the AWS Summit in NYC on July 15 — Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching an AI agent marketplace next week and Anthropic is one of its partners, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
RealSense spins out from Intel after 14 years as the chipmaker's robotics camera unit, and raises a $50M Series A with participation of Intel Capital and others — Intel is spinning out its artificial intelligence robotics and biometric venture as more companies bet big on automation tools.
More: Silicon Republic, CRN, SiliconANGLE, CTech, FinSMEs, Proactive, Robotics 24/7 News, Reuters, TechCrunch, Business Wire, and VC News Daily
| Kirk Ogunrinde / Bloomberg: |
Florida AG's office launches an investigation into Robinhood for “falsely promoting” its trading platform as the “least expensive way to purchase crypto” — The Menlo Park, California-based firm is “falsely promoting” its trading platform as the … Sponsor Posts
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