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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: After Kamala Harris held a rally in Detroit with thousands in attendance, Donald Trump falsely claimed the crowd was “fake” and a picture of it was AI-generated  —  The former president has also falsely accused his opponents of paying people to attend their rallies

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: How Elon Musk is diverting talent, data, and GPUs from his other businesses to xAI, leading to lawsuits that such resource shifting is hurting Tesla investors  —  Billionaire is mobilizing resources around artificial intelligence; some Tesla shareholders are suing to make him stop

Charlie Wells / Bloomberg: Some longtime users of LinkedIn lament the barrage of performative content from hustle-culture influencers and AI-generated “thought leadership” on the site  —  Longtime users irked by personal content lament that the job-hunting website has become more like Facebook.

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: AMD releases updates to mitigate the “Sinkclose” vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs  —  AMD says some chips fall outside of the software support window.  —  AMD processors dating back to 2006 reportedly suffer …

Will Oremus / Washington Post: A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement  —  On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is strictly prohibited.  —  Imagine an online community where substantive debates …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's future plans: iPhone 16 lineup, a new iPhone SE, a thin “Air” model in the iPhone 17 series, and a Watch SE with a plastic case in bold colors  —  Apple's iPhone 16 will keep sales stable until more innovative models are ready next year.

Zack Abrams / The Block: Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market  —  - Celsius filed a lawsuit against Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back Bitcoin worth $2.4 billion that the company …

Bloomberg: Q&A with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks on the toymaker's gaming push, licensing deals, and more; Monopoly GO! has earned $3B+ in revenue since its April 2023 launch  —  Monopoly GO! — has become one of the top mobile games of all time and grossed billions in revenue since it launched last year.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: How cybersecurity researcher Jon DiMaggio used fake personas to infiltrate LockBit and trick its alleged administrator into revealing operation details  —  Jon DiMaggio used sockpuppet accounts, then his own identity, to infiltrate LockBit and gain the trust of its alleged admin, Dmitry Khoroshev.

Stan Alcorn / Rest of World: A look at the consequences of Spotify's disinvestment in podcasts in Latin America, where one survey found 90% of podcast listeners used Spotify  —  In Latin America, “podcast” and “Spotify” became synonymous; now the audio industry is reckoning with the company's retreat.  —  • BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and a key figure in Google's creation, dies at age 56, after two years of living with cancer  —  Her husband, Dennis Troper, made the announcement earlier this evening: … Susan Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 as its 16th employee and first marketing manager.

Eva Dou / Washington Post: Truth Social parent TMTG, which has a $5B market cap, reports Q2 revenue down 30% YoY to $837K and a net loss of $16.4M; Trump owns 59.9% of TMTG's common stock  —  Donald Trump's company, which operates Truth Social, said it earned $837,000 in quarterly revenue.

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised a $60M Series A co-led by a16z and Thrive at a $400M post-money valuation  —  Anysphere, a two-year-old startup that's developed an AI-powered coding assistant called Cursor, has raised over $60 million in a Series A financing …

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Instagram is testing a Snap Maps-like feature that lets users post text and video updates to a map that can be shared with friends  —  Instagram has starting testing a new feature that looks a whole lot like Snap Maps.  —  This allows Instagram users to post text and video updates to a map based on where they were...

Kate Conger / New York Times: Former Twitter board member Omid Kordestani, who helped oversee the sale of the company to Elon Musk, sues X for failing to cash out $20M+ worth of stock  —  After purchasing Twitter, Mr. Musk failed to cash out Omid Kordestani's stock, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.

Jay Peters / The Verge: Interfax: Roskomnadzor blocked Signal in Russia for allegedly violating laws linked to anti-terrorist operations; Venezuela reportedly blocked Signal too  —  Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia.  The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying …

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: TikTok is offering steep discounts on goods to US users who invite friends to the app, expanding a referral scheme from countries like Japan and Thailand  —  TikTok is testing a truism: Money talks.  —  TikTok users in the U.S. who invite their friends to the app can now get steep discounts on goods …

Financial Times: Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts  —  The tech giant has worked to execute an AI strategy independent of Sam Altman's start-up following a leadership crisis last year

@martin_casado: [Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill  —  .@Scott_Wiener continues to falsely claim narrow opposition to SB 1047. When in reality there is massive public outcry across research, academic, public and private business and finance. Here is a mega roundup of recent announcements that fully debunk the Senator's claims 🧵

Matt Burgess / Wired: A researcher shows five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot can be manipulated by attackers, including turning it into an automatic spear-phishing machine  —  Attacks on Microsoft's Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.

Tom's Hardware: Intel details a microcode patch, available through BIOS updates, to address the elevated voltage issues that can damage some Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs  —  You need to install a BIOS update to ensure that your Raptor Lake CPU is not frying itself.  —  For the first time …

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: DevRev, which develops AI tools to improve the efficiency of employees on support, product, and engineering teams, raised a $100M Series A at a $1.15B valuation  —  - The corporate software developer raised $100 million  — Nutanix co-founder Dheeraj Pandey co-founded and leads DevRev

Reuters: Sources: Cisco plans a second round of layoffs in 2024, affecting at least as many as the 4,000 laid off in February, to be announced as soon as August 14  —  Cisco (CSCO.O) will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus …

Michael Kan / PCMag: Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook  —  The chipmaker is delaying one of its biggest events, which was slated for September and expected to include more details about upcoming processors.