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A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)

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A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses that use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, built for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

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Uber drivers in British Columbia joined a union, seeking to negotiate Canada's first bargaining agreement for rideshare drivers; Uber has agreed to meet (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

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Sources: CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said Bumble's "centre of gravity" would move to the US where the "talent pool is right now"; 70% of Bumble's staff are UK-based (Financial Times)

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Baidu overhauls its search engine with AI features and a voice function in its most sweeping revamp in years, and rolls out its first image-to-video model (Bloomberg)

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Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)

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Siemens says it has restored full access to its chip design software for its Chinese clients after the Trump admin lifted export curbs, initially imposed in May (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Now-Shuttered Migrant ‘Welcome Center’ Was Her Growing Family’s Home

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Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper, before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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xAI has been granted a permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Memphis campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over air pollution (Molly Taft/Wired)

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Flint’s Water Crisis Ends With A Major Development

The Root

The best Apple deals you can shop ahead of Amazon Prime Day

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Racist videos made with AI are going viral on TikTok

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Trump vs. after-school programs, briefly explained

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Persona 5: The Phantom X Revelation Cards, explained

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When is the next Pokémon Presents?

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Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game

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What Diddy’s mixed verdict means — for him and for us

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OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares Robinhood has started offering are not equity: "We did not partner with Robinhood...and do not endorse it" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Google’s fix for Pixel 6A battery overheating issues arrives next week

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