Microsoft says Delta, which said it had to manually reset ~40K PC servers because of CrowdStrike, had "not modernized its IT infrastructure" and refused "help" (CNBC)
CNBC: Microsoft says Delta, which said it had to manually reset ~40K PC servers because of CrowdStrike, had “not modernized its IT infrastructure” and refused
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B (Eric Platt/Financial Times)
Eric Platt / Financial Times: Filings: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1,
Source: TikTok was paying Microsoft ~$20M/mo. to use OpenAI's models in Azure OpenAI Service as of March, ~25% of the total revenue that service was generating (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
Aaron Holmes / The Information: Source: TikTok was paying Microsoft ~$20M/mo. to use OpenAI’s models in Azure OpenAI Service as of March, ~25% of the
The US NIST re-releases Dioptra, an open-source web-based tool first unveiled in 2022 for benchmarking, testing, and assessing risks in AI models (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: The US NIST re-releases Dioptra, an open-source web-based tool first unveiled in 2022 for benchmarking, testing, and assessing risks in AI
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
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
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
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
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
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
