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California announces support for adding driver's licenses or state IDs to Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, rolling out "in the coming weeks" (Shawna Chen/Axios)

Shawna Chen / Axios: California announces support for adding driver’s licenses or state IDs to Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, rolling out “in the coming

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Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens' likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about three years (Slow Boring)

Slow Boring: Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens’ likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about

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[Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill (@martin_casado)

@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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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