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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind — Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. … OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, The Information, and Business Insider
Bluesky: @edzitron.com. X: @alexeheath, @officiallogank, @morqon, @deedydas, @prashant_1722, @haydenfield, and @jeffwsurf
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI and Windsurf talks ended after Windsurf raised concerns over how its tech would fit into OpenAI's agreement to share tech with Microsoft — OpenAI has ended discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium.
More: Bloomberg Law and Thurrott
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company — OpenAI's deal to acquire the viral AI coding startup Windsurf fell apart on Friday, according to The Verge. — In a shocking twist, Google DeepMind … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired — The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3 billion offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, an OpenAI spokesperson told Fortune. — The expiration of the exclusivity period means …
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Financial Times: |
Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B — Grok chatbot maker in early talks with investors to boost its value as much as 10 times from last year
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, WinBuzzer, Yahoo Finance, and NewsMax.com
Bluesky: @skeet.best, @kingkool68.com, @wagatwe.com, @doghousereilly, @billthepony, @joshuaerlich, @self.agency, @b1gd1ll, @richburroughs.dev, @jentrification.com, @wilkos, and @creamcityjw. Threads: @simondowens
| 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 — UPDATE: on Wednesday July 16, I'll be holding a fireside chat in SF with the primary authors of the paper - register here to attend!
More: METR, The Register, Business Insider, OSnews, TechCrunch, Reuters, Marcus on AI, The Decoder, Inc.com, PhoneArena, and Cryptopolitan
Bluesky: @shimminykricket, @andrewfray.dev, @adamjkucharski, and @metr.org
LinkedIn: Adrian Booth, Yonas Bekele, Chris Baker, Sara Kubik, Gerben Wierda, and Fedir Skitsko
| Politico: |
French prosecutors open a criminal investigation into X over allegations that the company manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference” — The probe is based on complaints from a lawmaker and an unnamed senior civil servant.
More: Le Monde, Associated Press, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, TechCrunch, Mashable, Daily Sabah, Semafor, and Euronews
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X: @democrats_eu, @fatima_khatun01, and @menchosint
Forums: r/worldnews, r/law, and r/technology
| Reuters: |
Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-weight model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks — Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI released a new open-source AI model on Friday, joining a wave of similar releases …
More: WinBuzzer. X: @kimi_moonshot, @youjiacheng, @pigeon__s, @chetaslua, @prashant_1722, @yuchenj_uw, @jasonbotterill3, @shalev_lif, @zrdianjiao, @khazzz1c, @chetaslua, @youjiacheng, @phill__1, @aibattle_, @roteksong, @cedric_chee, @yulun_du, @ai_for_success, @test_tm7873, @khazzz1c, @teknium1, @ivanfioravanti, @elaina43114880, @zxytim, @testingcatalog, @cedric_chee, @victormustar, @reach_vb, @deedydas, @chetaslua, @crystalsssup, and @airesearch12
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Recording: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told staff that Intel is “not in the top 10 semiconductor companies” and it is “too late” to catch Nvidia in AI training — New CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that he doesn't consider Intel among the leading chip companies …
More: USA Today, The Verge, AzerNews, TechSpot, Gizmodo, The Economic Times, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, PCWorld, CTech, The Register, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, and San Francisco Chronicle
LinkedIn: Richard Platt and Matthew S Smith
Forums: r/intel, r/TechHardware, r/hardware, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase told fintech companies it will start charging fees for access to customers' account data, which could drastically reshape the industry — The largest US bank has sent pricing sheets to data aggregators — which connect banks and fintechs — outlining the new charges …
More: The Information, Reuters, and American Banker
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank will “start augmenting our workforce with Devin”, Cognition's AI software engineer, as Wall Street firms adopt AI — The newest hire at Goldman Sachs isn't human. — The bank is testing an autonomous software engineer … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
HMD says it will “scale back” US operations, citing “a challenging geopolitical and economic environment”, and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices — Even Barbie couldn't save it. … HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand … | 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 …
More: PCMag, MacRumors, India Today, arXiv.org, BGR, nextpit, T3, iPhone in Canada, PhoneArena, and AppleInsider
| Gregorio Sorgi / Politico: |
The European Commission drops plans to impose a digital tax on tech giants in its upcoming 2028-2034 budget proposal, amid ongoing EU-US trade negotiations — BRUSSELS ― The European Commission has dropped plans to levy a tax on digital companies, a move that hands victory to Donald Trump …
More: Bloomberg Law, Reuters, and The European Union
| Tony Stubblebine / The Coach Life: |
Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 — Medium's recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health. — · — Just now — I'm gonna write the wonky post of Medium's turnaround.| 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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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
More: The Atlantic, Washington Post, Associated Press, MacRumors, Scientific American, Financial Times, Engadget, Marcus Schuler, TechIssuesToday.com, National Review, nextpit, and nextbigwhat
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China — The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark …
More: The Decoder and DigiTimes
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Justin Sun says he is buying another $100M worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Trump — Crypto billionaire Justin Sun is buying another $100 million worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Donald Trump.| 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: Bloomberg, Gizmodo, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, The Daily Hodl, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, and Bitcoin Insider
LinkedIn: Emily Flitter and Muyao S.
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it has reached AGI, “sufficient AGI” means $100B+ in profits, and Microsoft may not build AGI — A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.
Bluesky: @stevenlevy
| Ange Lavoipierre / ABC: |
At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing search engine companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users — In short: — Search engines are in line for the same age assurance technology behind the teen social media ban.
More: Biometric Update, Mediaweek, and The Guardian
Forums: Hacker News, r/auslaw, r/worldnews, r/aus, r/LaborPartyofAustralia, r/aussie, r/AustralianPolitics, r/australian, and r/australia
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