How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads (Paresh Dave/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/as-google-ai-overview-targets-advertisers-it-could-learn-a-lot-from-bing/
http://www.techmeme.com/240615/p3#a240615p3 

 How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features (Andrew Leland/New York Magazine)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/apple-vision-pro-disabled-users.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240615/p2#a240615p2 

 Indie games were the real stars of the Summer Game Fest 2024; the top 10 bestselling games of 2024 so far on Steam in terms of units sold are almost all indie (Keza MacDonald/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jun/12/pushing-buttons-best-of-summer-game-fest
http://www.techmeme.com/240615/p1#a240615p1 

 Nigeria drops tax evasion charges against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, who still face money laundering charges (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/06/14/nigeria-drops-tax-charges-against-binance-executives-family-spokesperson/
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p17#a240614p17 

 Nvidia announces Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models that developers can use to generate synthetic data for training LLMs for commercial applications (Ankit Patel/NVIDIA)

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-4-synthetic-data-generation-llm-training/
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p16#a240614p16 

 Source: Sam Altman recently told some investors that OpenAI is considering changing to a for-profit benefit corporation that its nonprofit board doesn't control (The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-says-company-could-become-benefit-corporation-akin-to-rivals-anthropic-xai
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p15#a240614p15 

 US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M+ in sales between 2018 and 2020 (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-14/pair-charged-with-running-dark-web-market-for-illicit-goods
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p14#a240614p14 

 Tempus AI's shares closed up 8.8% at $40.25 in the company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of about $6.6B, after raising $410.7M in its IPO (Riley de León/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/14/google-backed-tempus-ai-pops-by-as-much-as-15percent-in-nasdaq-debut.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p13#a240614p13 

 Sources: Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based LLM developer founded last year by Google alumni, is raising ~$100M at a $1B valuation in a round led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux (The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-japanese-rival-gets-1-billion-valuation-from-silicon-valley-investors
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p12#a240614p12 

 Sources: Mustafa Suleyman's presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with OpenAI, as he looks at the algorithms behind models like GPT-4 (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/14/2024/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-audits-openais-code
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p11#a240614p11 

 Sources: the EU plans to charge Meta under the DMA, focusing on its pay or consent model where users pay a subscription for an ad-free Facebook and Instagram (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-meta-set-face-eu-charges-under-landmark-tech-rules-sources-say-2024-06-14/
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p10#a240614p10 

 Gemini will return ~$50M of digital assets to investors who were locked out of their accounts when Gemini Earn collapsed, to settle a lawsuit by New York's AG (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-14/gemini-to-pay-50-million-to-settle-new-york-crypto-fraud-claims
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p9#a240614p9 

 Sonos faces a backlash after removing a line from its privacy policy in the US that said Sonos "does not and will not sell personal information" of its users (Chris Welch/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/14/24178433/sonos-privacy-policy-customer-data-controversy
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p8#a240614p8 

 Sources: the EU has determined that Apple's anti-steering rules for developers do not comply with the DMA, and plans charges against Apple in the coming weeks (Financial Times)

https://t.co/81QurPcNtm
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p7#a240614p7 

 Meta will not launch Meta AI in Europe after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using the public Facebook and Instagram content of EU users (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meta-will-not-launch-meta-ai-europe-now-2024-06-14/
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p6#a240614p6 

 Sources: Shein tries to suppress its chair's claim that the retailer is American, amid fears it could annoy China, which needs to approve Shein's London IPO (Financial Times)

https://t.co/nRx9eIhJk4
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p5#a240614p5 

 The crypto industry has amassed a $160M war chest to bolster pro-crypto US candidates, which could be pivotal in handing the Senate majority to GOP in November (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-14/crypto-titans-160-million-war-chest-threatens-senate-democrats
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p4#a240614p4 

 Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

https://t.co/gCTlqdGncn
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p3#a240614p3 

 Boulder, Colorado-based Enveda, which combines AI with ancient remedies for drug discovery, raised a $55M Series B extension from investors including Microsoft (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

https://tcrn.ch/4bZAWSG
http://www.techmeme.com/240614/p2#a240614p2 

 Apple limits the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU, forcing browser makers to have staff in the EU (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/17/apple_browser_eu/
http://www.techmeme.com/240517/p15#a240517p15 

 Bluesky rolls out an app update that lets users customize their algorithmic feeds through "show more like this" and "show less like this" buttons (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/10/bluesky-now-lets-you-personalize-its-main-discover-feed-using-new-controls/
http://www.techmeme.com/240510/p9#a240510p9 

 The US awards TSMC $6.6B in grants and up to $5B in loans to build a third Arizona fab, slated to make 2nm chips by 2030, alongside TSMC's $65B+ investment (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-08/tsmc-gets-11-6-billion-in-us-grants-loans-for-three-chip-fabs
http://www.techmeme.com/240408/p6#a240408p6 

 Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security (Kevin Poireault/Infosecurity)

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/wiz-discovers-flaws-generative-ai/
http://www.techmeme.com/240406/p2#a240406p2