This drug developed by AI for lungs disease enters human clinical trials

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a disease that causes scarring in the lungs, has a new AI-designed drug named INS018-055 that has entered human clinical trials. Insilico Medicine has developed this drug named using its generative AI platform. INS018-055 clinical trials taking place in China could offer an alternative treatment with fewer side effects. Insilico Medicine is also developing two more drugs using AI, a Covid-19 drug in Phase one trial, and a USP1 inhibitor for the treatment of solid tumours that has already received FDA approval. https://ift.tt/wUZB8DE

Digital World Acquisition Corp. reaches a tentative SEC settlement over its planned Trump Media merger agreeing to pay $18M and revise some of its filings (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Digital World Acquisition Corp. reaches a tentative SEC settlement over its planned Trump Media merger, agreeing to pay $18M and revise some of its filings  —  Digital World's settlement with the S.E.C. could clear the way for a merger with Trump Media & Technology Group.

Thierry Breton says Google Amazon Apple Meta and Microsoft notified the EU that they meet the DMA's gatekeeper status of 45M MAUs and a €75B market cap (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Thierry Breton says Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft notified the EU that they meet the DMA's gatekeeper status of 45M+ MAUs and a €75B+ market cap  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) …

The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is "evaluating" the ruling (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg)

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its fight at the European Union's top court to topple a German antitrust decision …

Post-pandemic loneliness is driving young US adults to use apps like Discord to make real-life friends; users say seeking friends as adults still carries stigma (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post:
Post-pandemic loneliness is driving young US adults to use apps like Discord to make real-life friends; users say seeking friends as adults still carries stigma  —  American adults are lonely — and done waiting on friendship to find them IRL  —  On a gloomy June afternoon …

A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB (New York Times)

New York Times:
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB  —  Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine.

TweetDeck users report major problems including notifications and entire columns failing to load after Elon Musk's new read-limits; home timelines still load (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read-limits; home timelines still load  —  Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.

A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant setting off a polarizing debate about free-speech and risks (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant setting off a polarizing debate about free-speech and risks  —  A new generation of chatbots doesn't have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks.

Report: Apple is working on new external display for Macs that can double as a smart home display in low-power mode to release next year "at the earliest" (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple is working on new external display for Macs that can double as a smart home display in low-power mode, to release next year “at the earliest”  —  In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman writes that he understands Apple is working on a new Mac external display option …

How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue (Bernhard Warner/New York Times)

Bernhard Warner / New York Times:
How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue  —  For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that's vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.

Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods while planning cheaper models and a shift to USB-C for the charging case (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to USB-C for the charging case  —  Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.

Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices  —  Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law

Drone shows are increasingly replacing fireworks displays; research: the global drone light show market is projected to grow from $1.3B in 2021 to $2.2B in 2031 (New York Times)

New York Times:
Drone shows are increasingly replacing fireworks displays; research: the global drone light show market is projected to grow from $1.3B in 2021 to $2.2B in 2031  —  The light displays are quieter, safer and better for the environment.  —  Like many in the fireworks industry, Stephen Vitale is in the family business.

Q&A with Yoel Roth Twitter's former head of trust and safety on the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk Twitter's content moderation approach and more (Poynter)

Poynter:
Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, on the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk, Twitter's content moderation approach, and more  —  Yoel Roth explains how moderation rules evolved at Twitter, the fight against harassment and why he no longer drives a Tesla

Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6K posts/day unverified 600 and new unverified 300 due to "extreme" data scraping (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6K posts/day, unverified 600, and new unverified 300, due to “extreme” data scraping  —  Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …