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 …
X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status — The social network formerly known as Twitter has switched over to X.com. … The social network formerly known as Twitter …
