The Trump Organization replaces T1 Phone's “made in America” language on Trump Mobile's site with “brought to life right here in the USA” and “proudly American”
President Donald Trump's newly launched cellular service is defending its claims …
US prosecutors charge Kai West, a UK man known as IntelBroker who was arrested in February in France, with conspiring to steal data from dozens of companies
A 25-year-old British man known as “IntelBroker” was accused by US authorities of conspiring to steal data from dozens of companies …
A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train Llama is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered …
Sony says its PlayStation Plus three-tier overhaul has “surpassed our expectations” and that the $160/year Premium tier has grown 18% in the past 12 months
Sony kicks off PS Plus' 15th anniversary by chatting with Game File about the past, present and future …
Report: on June 23, French police arrested hackers ShinyHunters, Hollow, Noct, and Depressed, allegedly involved in operating the BreachForums cybercrime forum
the world's top marketplace for stolen data. Four admins aged 20-23, linked to major breaches (Ministry of Education, FFF, Accor, LVMH), were arrested in Clamart, Seine-Maritime & Réunion. The four ar...
FHFA Director William Pulte orders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to consider crypto as an asset in single-family mortgage applications without liquidating to USD
In a landmark shift for the U.S. housing finance system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has issued a directive ordering Fannie Mae …
A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model
Microsoft (MSFT.O) has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission …
Sources: Meta has poached three researchers from OpenAI's Zurich office, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, for its superintelligence efforts
Social-media giant has hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai for its superintelligence effort
Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week
Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.
Sources: Apple execs have discussed starting a theatrical distribution unit; Warner Bros. is distributing the F1 movie and getting a share of box office revenue
Six years after getting into entertainment, Apple lags behind its rivals in streaming subscribers and mainstream appeal, despite lavish spending on A-list stars
Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that lets dataset holders detail how machines can or cannot reuse their content, such as for training AI models
Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era.
Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more
“What will AI mean for jobs?” may be the single most-asked question about the technology category that dominates Silicon Valley, pop culture, and our politics. Bluesky: @midimyers.com , @larsonlee , @...
US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to try to break Apple's and Google's app store dominance; the 2021 version never came up for a vote
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan “Open App Markets Act” …
Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy
Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff said his company has automated a significant chunk of work with AI …
Anthropic now lets Claude app users build, host, and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude via Artifacts, available in beta to Free, Pro, and Max users
The upgrade, launching in beta, builds upon Anthropic's Artifacts feature introduced last year that lets you see and interact with what you ask Claude to make.
Getty Images drops its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI in UK court but is still pursuing other claims and a separate US lawsuit
On its first morning of closing submissions, Getty has dropped its primary copyright infringement claims against Stability AI. … See also Mediagazer
Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress
People who talk to Anthropic's Claude chatbot about emotional issues tend to grow more positive as the conversation unfolds …
Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI
Silicon Valley is at odds over whether AI can reach and exceed humanlike intelligence, a milestone with major implications …
YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday.
Google launches Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that lets developers make natural language requests in terminals by connecting Gemini models to local codebases
This repository contains the Gemini CLI, a command-line AI workflow tool … The Keyword : Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent Vinay Patel / International Business Times : Google's Gemini CLI Lands in...
Aylo, which owns Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, will add “government approved age assurance methods” in the UK by July 25 to comply with the Online Safety Act
1. The Age Check provider gets hacked and the records are used as blackmail. — 2. Some under 18 finds a workaround and spreads it. — 3. A Government accesses these records to blackmail opponents. ...
Sources: DeepSeek's highly anticipated R2 model faces delays due to a shortage of Nvidia server chips in China, exacerbated by the US' ban of Nvidia's H20 chips
The latest round of U.S. chip export controls may have curbed DeepSeek's rise, at least for now.
Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with “spammy behavior” from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work
How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain ‘spammy behavior’ from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini. Bluesky: @glinden , @darthbluesky , and @...
Kalshi raised $185M led by Paradigm at a $2B valuation; sources: Polymarket is completing a $200M+ investment led by Founders Fund at a ~$1B pre-money valuation
Prediction-Market Unicorn Hits $2 Billion Valuation Bogdan Patru / Bitcoin Insider : Prediction Market Kalshi Achieves Unicorn Status with $185 Raised at its $2B Evaluation, as BTC Bull Token Predicts...
Kraken launches Krak, a payments app that lets users send funds P2P across 110 countries using 300+ assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation buys $100M worth of tokens from Trump's World Liberty Financial, becoming its largest individual investor ahead of Justin Sun
A little known crypto fund bought $100 million of World Liberty Financial Inc. tokens, the second Middle East-based investor to put money …
A look at China-backed Zhipu AI, which offers AI infrastructure tools to governments globally, as OpenAI says the startup is on the “front line” of the AI race
OpenAI is putting a spotlight on an under-the-radar artificial intelligence startup that it believes is on the …
WhatsApp launches optional Meta AI-generated summaries of unread messages in the US; Meta says it can't read the chats, and other users can't see the summaries
Are You Okay With That? Tyler Lacoma / CNET : WhatsApp Brings Meta AI-Powered Summaries to Your Texts Emma Roth / The Verge : WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages Florence Mu...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying “human verification is top of mind for us right now”
Chief Steve Huffman warns of ‘arms race’ to protect its devoted online communities from AI-generated content Reddit is in an …
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 37% YoY to $9.3B, vs. $8.85B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates, and says it's on track for record revenue this fiscal year
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
Indonesia plans to change its rules to require e-commerce platforms like TikTok Shop to withhold income tax from large sellers instead of paying the government
Grace Sihombing / Bloomberg :
Asana names LaunchDarkly CEO Dan Rogers as its new CEO starting on July 21, replacing co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who is retiring and will remain board chair
I'm incredibly excited to see what a gifted operator and entrepreneur like Dan can do with the Asana opportunity!
Barclays will block crypto purchases made with credit cards starting June 27, citing volatility and lack of consumer protections, following other UK lenders
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block :
EU competition chief Teresa Ribera rejects claims DMA enforcement could be traded to avoid Trump's tariffs, and urges mutual respect for each side's regulations
Bloomberg : X: @samuelstolton X: Samuel Stolton / @samuelstolton : The European Union's crackdown on Apple, Meta Google and others isn't a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with US President Dona...
License plate reader company Flock has stopped US agencies from accessing cameras in CA, IL, and VA after reports of lookups related to ICE and an abortion case
www.404media.co/flock-remove... S. E. Smith / @sesmith.lol : Love it when reporting like this from @404media.co forces sleazy companies to change their practices now that they've been forced into dayl...
Amazon launches at-home diagnostic services in six Indian cities in partnership with Orange Health Labs, marking its entry into India's diagnostics market
Menaka Doshi / Bloomberg :
Chinese automaker Geely's ride-hailing arm CaoCao raised $236M in a Hong Kong IPO, listing 19% below its offer price; its market cap was $2.42B as of Wednesday
Kensaku Ihara / Nikkei Asia :
How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic
Decca Muldowney / The Verge : Bluesky: @bamabelleng Bluesky: @bamabelleng : I hate AI information and comments embedded in my social media. I have complained to FB to no avail. [embedded post]
Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is “currently being developed” for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post :
A look at Tokyo-based Nittobo, currently the only supplier in the world of the highest-end “T-glass”, a material essential for making high-powered AI servers
Nikkei Asia : X: @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : Why are top executives from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft visiting Japan? To secure supplies of a little-known ingredient vital for their artificial intellig...
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