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Google updates Gemini in Gmail to add a Polish feature to edit existing drafts, on top of Formalize and Elaborate, for Google One AI Premium and Workspace (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Google updates Gemini in Gmail to add a Polish fea...

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The UK's new rules to curb online payment scams, rolling out in October 2024, face backlash from the finance industry, including over a lack of time to adjust (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

The UK's new rules to curb online payment scams, r...

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A look at Rockbridge, a Silicon Valley-backed right-wing donor group co-founded by JD Vance to influence US politics; docs and sources: its 2024 budget is ~$75M (Reuters)

A look at Rockbridge, a Silicon Valley-backed righ...

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Following rivals' criticism, CrowdStrike President says no vendor could "technically" guarantee their software won't cause an incident like the July outage (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Following rivals' criticism, CrowdStrike President...

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New York-based Trunk Tools, which provides automation tools to organize unstructured construction documentation, raised a $20M Series A led by Redpoint (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

New York-based Trunk Tools, which provides automat...

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Microsoft releases three Phi-3.5 models designed for basic/fast reasoning and more, available for developers to download, use, and fine-tune on Hugging Face (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Microsoft releases three Phi-3.5 models designed f...

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Sources: Walmart, JD.com's largest shareholder, is seeking to raise up to $3.74B by selling its stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm; JD falls 9%+ after hours (Amy Or/Bloomberg)

Sources: Walmart, JD.com's largest shareholder, is...

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Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading "as a legitimate e-commerce 'marketplace'" (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusi...

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Source: at the end of March, Bolt's annualized run rate was $28M in revenue and $7M in gross profit, making a funding round at a $14B valuation hard to believe (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Source: at the end of March, Bolt's annualized run...

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A US district judge in Texas strikes down the FTC's ban on worker noncompete agreements, due to start September 4, after her temporary block of the rule in July (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

A US district judge in Texas strikes down the FTC'...

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In a Reddit AMA, CEO Patrick Spence said Sonos won't rerelease its old app, after testing showed that doing so "would make the problems worse, not better" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

In a Reddit AMA, CEO Patrick Spence said Sonos won...

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Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its servers were breached by an unauthorized party, causing its operations to run at "less than normal levels" (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)

Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its se...

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A US appeals court revives a class action suit by Google Chrome users who say Google collected personal info even if Chrome was not synced with a Google account (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US appeals court revives a class action suit by ...

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Condé Nast makes a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Condé Nast makes a multiyear deal with Open...

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OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, which lets developers customize a version of the model with their own datasets to improve domain-specific performance (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, which lets...

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Flight tracking site FlightAware, which claims 10M+ monthly users, reports a breach dating back to January 2021 that exposed names, SSNs, addresses, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Flight tracking site FlightAware, which claims 10M...

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Microsoft launches a single unified Microsoft Teams app that allows switching between work, personal, and education accounts on Windows and Mac (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft launches a single unified Microsoft Team...

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Ofcom says it has 460+ people working on enforcing the Online Safety Act and plans to grow that by 20% to 550+ by March 2025, or 33% of its 1,500 total staff (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

Ofcom says it has 460+ people working on enforcing...

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