• OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
• Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
• UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation
• Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
• Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out
• FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
• Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial
• Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day
• A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups
• People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online
• Intel is laying off tens of thousands and cancelling factories
• AMD CEO Sees Chips From TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More
• Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
• DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban
• FCC approves Skydance-Paramount merger
• Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a kiss-cam tech scandal
• Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59
• Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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• Interview with Steven Johnson
• Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch
• (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X
• Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
  OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
  SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
• (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X
• It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
• Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
• Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces
• A new study just upended AI safety
• 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
• Tesla results
• Total Party Kill
• Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen
• Attack of the clever crows

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Microsoft finally kills Movies & TV show service in the Microsoft Store. This was the final vestigial minder of Zune that remained. There was Groove Video and Xbox Video, too. Microsoft previously killed eBook (2019) and music (2017) sales. At this point, you would have to be insane to buy content from Microsoft, sorry... but you can get to some of your content on other services via Movies Anywhere - and use the Movies & TV app for now in Windows, which is no longer bundled.

Windows 11

• It's Week D and you can't tell your Copilot+ PC features from your Windows 11 features without a scorecard
• A peek at next month's Patch Tuesday - Also, preview updates for 23H2, Windows 10
• Copilot+ PCs only: Settings agent, Click to Do improvements, Photo relight in Photos app, Sticker generator and Object select in Paint
• Everyone: Copilot Vision (U.S. only) in Copilot, Edge Game Assist, Quick Machine Recovery
• Microsoft explains how PC transfer feature will work in Windows Backup later this year
• Describe image action for Click to Do (for AMD/Intel), image descriptions in Narrator (AMD/Intel), performance log improvements (!), Click to Do search bar test, Lock screen improvements, privacy improvements head to Dev and Beta channels
• Bug fixes in Canary, back to the usual waste of time
• Brave will automatically block Recall
• WhatsApp is going PWA, killing UWP app
• Focusrite finally releases drivers for Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X, removing the final major compatibility issue on that platform
• Linux (sort of) crosses the 5 percent usage milestone

Surface/Copilot+ PC

• Copilot+ PC is a failure as a brand because Microsoft focused on negligible on-device AI features
• It should have pushed reliability, performance, efficiency and battery life
• All Copilot+ PC features should come to at least those with GPUs, but really all customers
• Microsoft failed at AI, and failed with consumers, and so now it's going to tell us what consumers want from AI - a comedy
• Microsoft announces Surface Laptop for Business with 5G but the real "with" is Intel Inside
• Intel layoffs are even worse than expected and more are coming
• Microsoft has a problem and it starts with "C" and ends with "opilot"
• Microsoft SharePoint has a notably bad security flaw
• DuckDuckGo adds some neat customization features to Duck.ai and DuckDuckGo lets you hide all AI from search

Xbox and gaming

• The Xbox platform unification continues: Xbox now testing cross-device play history - Not just console games on console, PC games on PC
• Just kidding! The Outer Worlds will cost $69.99, not $79.99

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week: You hate Big Tech, but who can you trust?
• App pick of the week: Proton Lumo
• RunAs Radio this week: Copilot Studio with April Dunnam
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Benromach 10

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