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TechMeme
- Progress Software, the company behind the widely exploited MOVEit file transfer tool, patches critical vulnerabilities in its WS_FTP Server file transfer tool (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
- Sources: the UK is pushing Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic for unprecedented access to examine the internal workings of their LLMs, ahead of its global AI summit (Financial Times)
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- In an interview using Meta's photorealistic Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg talks about the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future (Lex Fridman/Lex Fridman Podcast)
- Sources: Microsoft discussed selling Bing to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search engine on Apple's devices (Bloomberg)
- Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Enflame raised a ~$273.7M Series D from state capital operator Shanghai International Group's funds, Tencent, Meitu, and others (DealStreetAsia)
- Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- France's competition authority raided a "graphics cards sector" company this week as part of a cloud-computing inquiry; sources say the target was Nvidia (Wall Street Journal)
- Google plans to stop supporting its $5K, 55" Jamboard meeting room display on September 30, 2024 and phase out its collaborative Jamboard app on October 1, 2024 (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
- A New York state judge rejects a bid by Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub to block NYC's law setting a minimum wage of $17.96/hour for app-based delivery workers (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)
- Google rolls out ChromeOS 117 with a Material You redesign, adaptive charging, a new camera and microphone privacy indicator, an improved clipboard, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Google opens its Search Generative Experience to US teens ages 13-17, adds more context on how a response was generated, and improves offensive query detection (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
- NYC-based IYK, which lets brands, musicians, and creators build "digi-physical experiences", including through NFTs, raised a $16.8M seed led by A16z Crypto (Yogita Khatri/The Block)