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FTC's newly unredacted filings quote an Adobe exec comparing early termination fees to "heroin"; Adobe's Dana Rao says the person was not on the leadership team (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: FTC’s newly unredacted filings quote an Adobe exec comparing early termination fees to “heroin”; Adobe’s Dana Rao says the person

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The EU tells Meta its "pay or consent" model for Facebook and Instagram may violate consumer protection laws, giving Meta until September 1 to propose changes (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge: The EU tells Meta its “pay or consent” model for Facebook and Instagram may violate consumer protection laws, giving Meta

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A study of 14K web domains in the C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma AI training datasets: 5% of all the data, and 25% of the highest-quality data, has been restricted (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A study of 14K web domains in the C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma AI training datasets: 5% of all the

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US Senate preliminary report: Amazon Prime Day is a "major" cause of worker injuries, with Prime Day 2019 data showing "just under" 45 injuries per 100 workers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: US Senate preliminary report: Amazon Prime Day is a “major” cause of worker injuries, with Prime Day 2019 data showing “just

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Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform (Anuj Ahooja/augment)

Anuj Ahooja / augment: Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well

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OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce a partnership to evaluate how multimodal AI models can be used safely by scientists in laboratory settings (Evan Gorelick/Bloomberg)

Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg: OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce a partnership to evaluate how multimodal AI models can be used safely by scientists

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A study of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT's ability to solve 728 coding problems: fairly good at solving problems that existed before 2021, but struggles with newer ones (Michelle Hampson/IEEE Spectrum)

Michelle Hampson / IEEE Spectrum: A study of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT’s ability to solve 728 coding problems: fairly good at solving problems that existed before 2021,

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Meta releases pre-trained models that use a novel multi-token prediction approach, available on Hugging Face under a non-commercial research license (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Meta releases pre-trained models that use a novel multi-token prediction approach, available on Hugging Face under a non-commercial research license  — 

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Circle says it has been granted an e-money license from France, making the crypto startup compliant with stablecoin provisions under the EU's tough crypto laws (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Circle says it has been granted an e-money license from France, making the crypto startup compliant with stablecoin provisions under the

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The US SEC sues Consensys over its MetaMask service, alleging the wallet tool was an unregistered broker that "engaged in the offer and sale of securities" (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US SEC sues Consensys over its MetaMask service, alleging the wallet tool was an unregistered broker that “engaged in the