Microsoft unveils Bing generative search, which shows LLM-generated answers with the sources used to create them, currently available to a small subset of users
Bing will soon prioritize AI-generated answers alongside traditional search results. — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and others are not showing recent Reddit results
except the ones that pay Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Reddit Blocked Bing Search & Others But Not Google Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Reddit now blocks all search engines other than Google...
Around 500 World of Warcraft workers vote to unionize with the CWA, bringing the number of unionized US gaming employees at Microsoft to around 1,750
World of Warcraft workers have voted to unionize the popular video-game franchise, expanding organized labor's new foothold at Microsoft Corp. by around 500 employees.
Microsoft says “Bing stopped crawling Reddit” after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 to prohibit “all crawling of their site”
Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site.
Revolut secures a UK banking license, ending a more-than-three-year-long regulatory battle; the London-based fintech has ~9M UK customers and 45M+ globally
London-based fintech receives approval from regulators in boost to expansion plans — Revolut has secured a UK banking licence …
AMD delays its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch, originally set for July, to August due to an unspecified quality issue, and pulls back all shipped units to replace them
AMD hits the brakes on its Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 processors. — AMD announced today that it has delayed its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch due …
Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike's faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B
Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix
Meta removes ~63K Instagram accounts used by sextortion scammers in Nigeria, along with ~7,200 Facebook accounts, Pages, and Groups linked to the Yahoo Boys
- Purge includes thousands of Groups offering sextortion ‘tips’ — One network of 20 criminals was running 2,500 fake accounts
The UK FCA fines Coinbase £3.5M for providing payment services to 13K+ “high-risk” customers, in the agency's first enforcement action against a crypto company
Penalty for exchange's payments unit is first enforcement action by FCA against a crypto company
Privacy-focused developer Proton debuts a self-custody bitcoin wallet, its first cryptocurrency product, initially for early access Proton Visionary subscribers
When you think about it, Proton has always been a crypto company — cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
Google DeepMind rolls out AlphaProof AI model, which specializes in math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an updated version of a model focused on geometry
AI models, trained on text, have historically struggled with math reasoning — Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.'s artificial …
The new Disney+, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle goes on sale in the US for $16.99 per month with ads and $29.99 per month without ads
Dragons, Jedis, Marvel and DC superheroes, Harry Potter, Disney princesses — and more from Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery — are now available to stream for a reduced monthly price.
After investigating how Meta handles explicit AI-generated images, the Oversight Board asks Meta to shift “derogatory” terminology to “non-consensual”, and more
Following investigations into how Meta handles AI-generated explicit images, the company's semi-independent observer body …
Elon Musk's X poll asking whether Tesla should invest $5B in xAI ends with 67.9% voting yes, after Musk said on Tesla's earnings call that he supported the idea
- CEO takes poll on whether EV maker should back his startup — The two companies have intermingled on procurement, recruiting
We need a US-led global coalition of like-minded countries and a new strategy to ensure that a democratic vision for AI prevails over an authoritarian one
Sam Altman is co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. — Who will control the future of AI? — That is the urgent question of our time.
Sources: Meta is set to be hit with its first EU antitrust fine, which could be as much as 10% of its 2023 global revenue, for tying Marketplace and Facebook
Meta Platforms (META.O) is set to be hit in a few weeks with its first EU antitrust fine for tying classified advertisements service Marketplace …
Chainguard, which helps companies secure their software supply chain, raised a $140M Series C co-led by Redpoint, Lightspeed, and IVP at a $1.12B valuation
Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity startup Chainguard announced a $140 million Series C investment, bumping its valuation …
A NASA-funded study of satellite data finds traffic-related N02 pollution spiked ~20% near ~150K large US warehouses, which have proliferated due to e-commerce
The data is in, and it shows a significant rise in air pollution where e-retailers build their warehouses …
Apple launches Apple Maps on the web in beta, available in English and compatible with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, and Chrome and Edge on Windows PCs
here's how Erencan Yılmaz / Gizmochina : Apple Maps is now available for Windows and Linux Usama Jawad / XDA Developers : Google finally faces potential competition as Apple Maps beta launches on the ...
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool
A leaked internal document shows Runway's celebrated Gen-3 AI video generator collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies for training data. X: @mkbhd , @malwarejake , @ednewtonrex , @jos...
Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag
It's not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch.
OpenAI introduces Rule-Based Rewards, a method to automate some model fine-tuning and cut down the time required to ensure a model behaves safely
OpenAI announced a new way to teach AI models to align with safety policies called Rules Based Rewards. — According to Lilian Weng …
Google debuts new Maps features in India to help users easily navigate though flyovers and narrow roads, says it built an AI model specifically for Indian roads
check full list here Yamini C S / Hindustan Times : Google Maps to introduce narrow road alerts, flyover guidance in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, other cities: Report NDTV : Google Maps To Alert For Road Wid...
A group of 17 US lawmakers ask Meta to delay shutting down CrowdTangle for at least six months, saying that Meta Content Library has “significant limitations”
A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Wednesday sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter asking the firm to delay shutting down CrowdTangle for six months.
Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris could provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington, DC, toward Big Tech companies
DefiLlama and Wintermute: the aggregate market cap of stablecoins crossed $164B for the first time since the collapse of Terra in May 2022; USDT is at $114.26B
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk :
AltStore PAL now offers third-party iOS apps in the EU, starting with two torrenting apps, a social discovery app for dating, and a PC emulator
but also want to go outside and touch grass — this app's for you! Remotely control qBittorrent on your PC's high-speed home network, even when halfway across the globe 🌎 https://github.com/... @altst...
ServiceNow President CJ Desai leaves the company after an internal probe found he violated company policy related to a US contract and an ex-Army CIO's hiring
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Mistral announces Mistral Large 2, the new generation of its flagship model, with 123B parameters; commercial usage requires a separate license
Today, we are announcing Mistral Large 2, the new generation of our flagship model. Tobias Mann / The Register : Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models MD Ijaj Kh...
SK Hynix Q2: revenue up 125% YoY to ~$11.86B, operating profit of ~$3.96B, its highest quarterly profit in six years, and sees further rising chip demand in H2
STMicro reports Q2 net revenue down 25.3% YoY to $3.23B and cuts its FY 2024 revenue outlook to $13.2B to $13.7B, down from a previous range of $14B to $15B
Michael Hennessey / Bloomberg :
Researchers suggest that using “synthetic” data, created by AI systems to train LLMs, could lead to the rapid degradation of AI models and a collapse over time
In April this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked during … Lindsay Clark / The Register : AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output Tech Xplore : Using AI to train AI: Model colla...
Crunchbase: in H1 2024, generative AI startups raised $500M across 198 angel/seed deals, $8.7B across 39 early-stage deals, and $3.1B across 18 late-stage deals
Investments in generative AI startups — those that are creating AI-powered products to generate text, audio, video and more — aren't slowing down.
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 2% YoY to $15.8B, vs. $15.6B est., and says bookings for AI consulting and software have exceeded $2B since mid-2023, vs. $1B in Q1
Bloomberg :
India drops the 2% equalization levy on digital services offered by foreign companies starting August 1; the levy had become a point of contention with the US
Laura Dobberstein / The Register :
Atos appoints its chairman Jean Pierre Mustier as CEO to replace departing boss Paul Saleh, in its fifth top management reshuffle in less than two years
Enterprise financial software company OneStream's shares closed up 34.25% at $26.85 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a market cap of ~$6.2B, after a ~$490M IPO
Bloomberg :
Airtable launches Cobuilder, which can generate apps from text prompts and match them to relevant data and customer information already stored within Airtable
Lakera, which helps enterprises protect generative AI apps from LLM vulnerabilities, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico, bringing its total funding to $30M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Analysis: since the start of Ukraine war in 2022, Russia obtained ~$4B worth of US restricted chips from 6K+ companies, including from shell firms in Hong Kong
New York Times :
Stability AI unveils Stable Video 4D, a model based on its Stable Video Diffusion model that takes video input and generates videos from eight new perspectives
Beijing-based AI startup Baichuan raised about $687M at a $2.8B valuation from investors, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen governments, and Alibaba
Bloomberg :
Dazz, which provides AI-based cloud security remediation software for enterprises, raised $50M from Greylock and others, sources say at a ~$400M valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
All Raise: ~18% of US VC firms have at least one female partner, double from 2018; PitchBook says female founders had almost 28% of total US deal value in 2023
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