Sources: the EU has determined that Apple's anti-steering rules for developers do not comply with the DMA, and plans charges against Apple in the coming weeks
Brussels to announce iPhone maker is failing to adhere to new rules designed to open up its app store to competition
Nvidia announces Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models that developers can use to generate synthetic data for training LLMs for commercial applications
Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models optimized for NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, includes cutting-edge instruct and reward models, and a dataset for generative AI training.
Meta will pause the launch of Meta AI in EU after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using adult EU users' public Facebook and Instagram content
Meta Platforms (META.O) will not launch its Meta AI in Europe for now following a request from the Irish privacy regulator, the U.S. social media company said on Friday.
US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M+ in sales between 2018 and 2020
- Prosecutors say ‘Empire Market’ did $430 million in sales — Drugs and malicious computer programs were sold, US says
Source: Altman told investors that OpenAI could become a for-profit business not controlled by its nonprofit board; Microsoft execs favor a for-profit option
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told some shareholders that the artificial intelligence developer is considering changing …
Microsoft delays Recall to test it with the Windows Insider Program and won't ship it with Copilot+ PCs next week, after saying it would make the feature opt-in
will arrive via Windows Update later this year Richi Jennings / Security Boulevard : Recall ‘Delayed Indefinitely’ — Microsoft Privacy Disaster is Cut from Copilot+ PCs Katie Bartlett / CNBC : Microso...
Indie games were the real stars of the Summer Game Fest 2024; the top 10 bestselling games of 2024 so far on Steam in terms of units sold are almost all indie
In this week's newsletter: While the blockbuster end of the games industry is in the doldrums, independent developers are leading a creative resurgence
Tempus AI's shares closed up 8.8% at $40.25 in the company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of about $6.6B, after raising $410.7M in its IPO
WATCH NOW — Tempus AI, a health-care diagnostics company that uses AI to interpret medical tests to help physicians provide …
Sources: the EU plans to charge Meta under the DMA, focusing on its pay or consent model where users pay a subscription for an ad-free Facebook and Instagram
Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) will likely face charges for failing to comply with landmark EU rules aimed at reining …
How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features
The headset is already changing disabled users' lives. — In her childhood bedroom, Maxine Collard had a PC connected …
OpenAI adds retired US Army General Paul Nakasone, who led the NSA and US Cyber Command, to its board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee
Ina Fried / Axios :
Nigeria drops tax evasion charges against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, who still face money laundering charges
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk :
Gemini will return ~$50M of digital assets to investors who were locked out of their accounts when Gemini Earn collapsed, to settle a lawsuit by New York's AG
- Attorney General Letitia James sued Gemini Trust in October — The settlement follows similar action brought against Genesis
Brad Smith tells a US House committee that Microsoft “accepts responsibility” for the issues the CSRB found, its business in China serves US interests, and more
if they haven't shown good cybersecurity performance Jessica Lyons / The Register : Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act Sean Lyngaas / CNN : Microsoft ...
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database
https://arstechnica.com/... h/t @Nonya_Bidniss Evan Greer / @evangreer@mastodon.online : I spoke with the NYT about why giving people harmed a stake in Clearview AI is not a solution. — #FacialReco...
Sonos faces a backlash after removing a line from its US privacy policy that said Sonos “does not and will not sell personal information about our customers”
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing
Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple's AI, so why won't your $900 year-old model run it? Here's why.
Sources: Mustafa Suleyman's presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with OpenAI, as he looks at the algorithms behind models like GPT-4
Reed Albergotti / Semafor :
How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads
Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences. But users don't always find it helpful. Mastodon: @kubikpixel@chaos.social . Bluesky: @self.agency Mastodon: @kubikpixel@chaos.so...
The crypto industry has amassed a $160M war chest to bolster pro-crypto US candidates, which may be pivotal in handing a Senate majority to the GOP in November
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg :
Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets
Jack joined Lightspeed in 2024 and leads the Capital Markets business.
Sources: Shein tries to suppress its chair's claim that the retailer is American, amid fears it could annoy China, which needs to approve Shein's London IPO
arguably more dauntingly — in China. …
Sources: Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based LLM developer founded last year by Google alumni, is raising ~$100M at a $1B valuation in a round led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux
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