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Microsoft details how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature, including making it opt-in and giving users an option to uninstall (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for allegedly hacking Trump's presidential campaign and disseminating stolen info (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)

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Mendaera, which is developing a robotic system with real-time imaging and AI for use in interventional radiology, raised a $73M Series B led by Threshold (Marty Stempniak/Radiology Business)

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Sources: Apple rethinks its movie strategy, including rolling back theatrical releases and cutting budgets for most to under $100M, after some box office misses (Bloomberg)

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The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights (Maggie Miller/Politico)

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iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max teardown: great modularity upgrades and much improved repairability with a dual-entry design and a metal enclosure for 16 Pro battery (Kyle Wiens/iFixit News)

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A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an inquiry launched in 2019 and fines Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

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The UK CMA rules that Amazon's $4B Anthropic deal does not qualify for an investigation under merger laws as Anthropic's UK revenue did not meet needed limits (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)

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DefiLlama: Coinbase's L2 Ethereum network Base stands at $2.08B in total value locked, up from $430M at the start of 2024, marking a 370% growth year-to-date (Vishal Chawla/The Block)

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Current and former staff say OpenAI has rushed product announcements and safety testing, lost its lead over rivals, and Altman is detached from the day-to-day (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)

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Stripe data: AI startups took a median 11 months to hit $1M in annualized revenue after their first sales, vs. 15 months for previous gen of SaaS companies (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

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Kamala Harris is courting crypto investors and pro-crypto Democrats, as some prominent Democrats temper their initial skepticism of crypto assets (Joseph Zeballos-Roig/Semafor)

Kamala Harris is courting crypto investors and pro...

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The UK's Gambling Commission plans to take fantasy football startup Sorare to court next week over charges of providing unlicensed gambling facilities to users (Samuel Agini/Financial Times)

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Sources: Intel and the US government plan to finalize $8.5B in direct funding for the chipmaker by year-end, as Intel tries to stabilize its ailing business (Financial Times)

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In an email to OpenAI's investors, CFO Sarah Friar says the company's current funding round was oversubscribed and is set to close next week (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

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Source: Arm approached Intel about potentially buying Intel's product group, but not factory operations; Intel declined, saying the division isn't for sale (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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Source: at an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said there were no plans for him to get a "giant equity stake" in OpenAI, calling the information "just not true" (Hayden Field/CNBC)

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