Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 confirmed to launch in August: What to expect

The foldable phone market is expected to grow in the coming years with tech companies like Samsung, Oppo, Google, Motorola and others laying emphasis on it. Xiaomi has also confirmed the launch of its next-generation foldable — Mix Fold — in August this year. https://ift.tt/AO6KBQT

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. says music with AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy but the AI portion will not be considered for the award (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)

Maria Sherman / Associated Press:
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. says music with AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered for the award  —  Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry.

Samsung Display sues BOE in Texas accusing the Chinese rival of infringing five of its patents for mobile OLED displays; Samsung dominates the OLED market (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
Samsung Display sues BOE in Texas, accusing the Chinese rival of infringing five of its patents for mobile OLED displays; Samsung dominates the OLED market  —  South Korea's Samsung Display has filed a lawsuit against BOE Technology (000725.SZ), accusing the Chinese rival of infringing five …

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is profitable as a private firm and plans a future IPO; Lanzone joined after Yahoo's September 2021 spinout from Verizon (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is profitable as a private firm and plans a future IPO; Lanzone joined after Yahoo's September 2021 spinout from Verizon  —  Yahoo, one of the internet's oldest and best-known brands that had once been a dotcom stock market darling, is planning to return to the public markets.

Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1) tweaked LEDs on the back a curved glass rear design and more (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1), tweaked LEDs on the back, a curved glass rear design, and more  —  Carl Pei's Nothing is just a week or two away from the full launch, and after showing off the camera earlier today, a new video shows off the Nothing Phone (2) in full.

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.