Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI’s entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups — The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default (Kate Irwin/PCMag)
Kate Irwin / PCMag:
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default — Slack feeds user content, messages, and uploads to its machine learning models. All users are opted-in by default.
Sources: Germany is nearing a decision to strip Huawei and ZTE components from the country’s 5G core network by 2026 for national security reasons (Michael Nienaber/Bloomberg)
Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg:
Sources: Germany is nearing a decision to strip Huawei and ZTE components from the country’s 5G core network by 2026 for national security reasons — – Plan bans Chinese critical components in core network by 2026 — Interior, foreign and economy ministries back the proposal
Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy — Software company will add the latest installment of the hit videogame series to its Game Pass subscription service at launch this fall
Hong Kong launches a pilot program enabling digital yuan payments through major Chinese banks, first deployment of China’s currency beyond the mainland (Kiuyan Wong/Bloomberg)
Kiuyan Wong / Bloomberg:
Hong Kong launches a pilot program enabling digital yuan payments through major Chinese banks, first deployment of China’s currency beyond the mainland — – The launch is the first to take place beyond mainland China — China is pushing to grow the yuan’s share of global payments
The EU warns Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under DSA after failing to provide risk info about its generative AI tools (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The EU warns Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under DSA after failing to provide risk info about its generative AI tools — The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc’s online governance regime …
Microsoft partnership with Mistral AI will avoid a UK antitrust probe after the CMA finds Microsoft can’t “materially influence” Mistral’s commercial policy (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
Microsoft partnership with Mistral AI will avoid a UK antitrust probe after the CMA finds Microsoft can’t “materially influence” Mistral’s commercial policy — – CMA said the tie-up does not qualify under merger rules — Watchdog is looking into Big Tech AI startup investment
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave raised $7.5B in debt financing, two weeks after raising $1.1B equity funding at a $19B valuation; it raised $2.3B in debt in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave raised $7.5B in debt financing, two weeks after raising $1.1B equity funding at a $19B valuation; it raised $2.3B in debt in 2023 — Deal is one of the largest-ever private debt financings — CoreWeave, an artificial-intelligence cloud-computing startup backed by Nvidia …
Kuo: Apple to use higher energy density battery cells for iPhone 16 Pro Max and stainless steel battery cases for better replaceability, an EU requirement (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Kuo: Apple to use higher energy density battery cells for iPhone 16 Pro Max and stainless steel battery cases for better replaceability, an EU requirement — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before …
Sources: Tesla plans to keep its Chinese FSD training data in the country, a shift from a previous strategy of seeking approval to move data out of China (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
Fanny Potkin / Reuters:
Sources: Tesla plans to keep its Chinese FSD training data in the country, a shift from a previous strategy of seeking approval to move data out of China — Tesla (TSLA.O) is pushing ahead with plans to power the global development of its self-driving system with data from China …
