Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent — THE BUZZ: FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: One of Silicon Valley's heaviest hitters is wading into the fight over California's AI regulations.
A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR glasses, M4 Macs, reasons for limiting Apple Intelligence to the latest iPhones and delaying it in the EU — The Apple Vision Pro has gotten off to a slow start, spurring management to rethink its plans for the device.
Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model into Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple — The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta's generative AI model into Apple Intelligence
Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, available to developers for building AI-enabled apps for Snapdragon X Elite devices — Another way to promote AI PCs. — When Qualcomm formally introduced its Snapdragon X Elite platforms at Computex earlier this month …
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books — Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library. — As a result of book publishers successfully suing …
How Embracer's layoffs and project cancellations gutted Fishlabs, a promising studio that now lives on as a cross-dev team supporting other Embracer companies — The exclusive inside story of Chorus developers Fishlabs, from Project Black to Project White — A phoenix is a mythological firebird …
Q&A with AMD executive Forrest Norrod on increasing AI investments, releasing accelerator chips at a faster cadence, AMD's open standards approach, and more — In an interview with CRN, AMD executive Forrest Norrod talks about how the company is “dramatically” increasing investments …
TikTok confirms it offered the US a “kill switch” in 2022 to shut down the app in the US at the government's discretion if TikTok did not follow certain rules — TikTok says it offered the US government the power to shut the platform down in an attempt to address lawmakers' data protection and national security concerns.
Estonia blocks an EU VAT reform that would have imposed new liabilities on short-term rental services like Airbnb and passenger transport services like Bolt — Estonia is blocking a reform of VAT which would impose new liabilities on digital platforms including short-term accommodation …
Huawei says around 900M gadgets are now running on its HarmonyOS and sales of premium Huawei smartphones climbed 72% in the first five months of 2024 — - Consumer chief says Harmony users have reached 900 million — Richard Yu says top-end device sales surged 72% in year to May
Qilin, hackers behind the London hospitals hack, published ~400GB of patient data on their darknet site and Telegram channel; the NHS is investigating the claim — A gang of cyber criminals causing huge disruption to multiple London hospitals has published sensitive data stolen from an NHS blood testing company.
Kenya ends a year-long investigation into Worldcoin with “no further police action” and says the startup must register its business, acquire licenses, and more — Worldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning …
Tests show Instagram continues to recommend sexual videos to accounts with ages listed as 13; Snapchat and TikTok did not produce the same sexualized content — Findings align with undisclosed internal research at Meta, which has pledged an ‘age-appropriate’ experience for teens …
Tencent removes hit game Dungeon & Fighter from select Android app stores after its contracts expired; local media says the app stores include Huawei and Oppo — Tencent (0700.HK) is removing from Thursday its hit mobile game “Dungeon & Fighter” (DnF Mobile) from selected Android app stores …
TikTok launches an in-app experience to celebrate Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, giving prizes to users who complete 11 weeks of tasks, following Instagram in April — The app is the latest social platform to build a custom experience for the star. — You already knew Taylor Swift …
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : How internet censorship tech maker Sandvine, a vendor to repressive regimes like Egypt, nearly collapsed bef...
