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| Sam Learner / Financial Times: |
Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement — Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web's unsung human caretakers. If you are reading the digital version …
X: @steveruizok and @johnthackara
Bluesky: @olihawkins.com, @frankpasquale, @rich-harris.dev, @samlearner, and @samlearner
| Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay Area, as the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, co-founder of a hard-line activist group, has the movement on edge — The resistance to artificial intelligence is growing over fears about human extinction—but one activist's disappearance has the movement on edge| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus — When iPhone engineer Chang Liu quit for a job at OpenAI's nascent hardware division, Apple Inc. says he left with more than just years of experience.
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Forums: r/apple, r/siliconvalley, r/law, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/artificial, and r/tech_x
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce — If their lawsuit is successful, that ChatGPT device may be no more... We all know the old saying “don't poke the bear.”
More: Bloomberg, AKIpress News Agency, Benzinga, Livemint, Business Insider, Semafor, and Axios
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI — Apple Inc. sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging …
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Forums: r/popculturechat, r/news, r/singularity, r/MediaMergers, r/technology, and r/law
| Benedict Evans: |
Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top — There are only two things you can say with certainty about token prices: we're in a supply crunch, and this is unstable.| Financial Times: |
AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations — Hotel bookings fall short of expectations as price-conscious fans opt to stay in American homes| Laura Dubois / Financial Times: |
EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath says the EC is set to propose new digital rules by year-end aimed at protecting consumers from online spending traps — Justice commissioner Michael McGrath says Brussels seeks to strengthen social media safeguards — Brussels is preparing … | Bloomberg: |
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions — Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates …
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis — When the 82-year-old psychologist Peter Gray describes the way he grew up, he punctuates the anecdotes by saying that modern parents …
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| Lucia Moses / Business Insider: |
NYC-based Vendelux, a live B2B event information platform for CMOs and marketing and sales teams, raised a $50M Series B led by Tribeca Venture Partners — - Vendelux, a company that helps CMOs figure out their live events strategy, raised $50 million. — It plans to use the new round …
More: Vendelux, RuntimeWire, New York Business Journal, and FinSMEs
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires — Getting an offer from Bending Spoons, which owns AOL, has become harder than getting into Harvard| Corbin Bolies / Variety: |
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism — Meta said it will discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts following days of criticism …
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X: @dylanbyers, @autismcapital, @leehepner, @leehepner, @mikeisaac, and @popbase. Threads: @sagaftra
Forums: r/PoliticalOptimism, r/technology, r/Instagram, and Slashdot
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented — Google has told the European Commission that pirate site blocking causes “significant harm” and should not target DNS resolvers, VPNs or shared IPs.Sponsor Posts
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