Morning Brew - August 07, 2024

Welcome to the Morning Brew technology newsletter. Our daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of major tech and programming stories.

Morning Brew -  August 07, 2024
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Welcome to the Morning Brew technology newsletter.

Our daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of major tech and programming stories.

Tech

Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules
Google illegally monopolized the search market through exclusive deals, a judge ruled Monday, handing the government a win in its first major antitrust case against a tech giant in more than two decades.
Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon
Chrome is warning users that their extension makers need to update soon.
Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
Samantha Cole at 404 Media reports on a huge leak of internal NVIDIA communications - mainly from a Slack channel - revealing details of how they have been collecting video …
Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work
Security is now officially a top priority inside Microsoft.

Cryptocurrency

41% of Polymarket Bettors Think Bitcoin Will Go Below $45,000 Before September - Decrypt
Polymarket traders are taking the market crash as an opportunity to place bets with the results looking extremely bearish.

AI

Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for making a “fool” out of him
Elon Musk asks court to void Microsoft’s exclusive deal with OpenAI.
OpenAI Co-Founders Schulman and Brockman Step Back
(Bloomberg) -- Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI and a central figure at the company, said he is is going on leave until the end of the year. At the same time, researcher John Schulman is leaving for rival artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. Most Read from BloombergAfrica’s Richest City Needs $12 Billion to Fix InfrastructureNew York City’s Outdoor Dining Sheds Will Start DisappearingThe 5 Coastal States That Face the Most Devastating Flood RiskSinger Akon’s Multibillion-Dollar Futur
OpenAI tempers expectations with less bombastic, GPT-5-less DevDay this fall | TechCrunch
OpenAI will have a decidedly quieter product season this year after a splashy DevDay conference in 2023.
iPhone 16 release unaffected by Apple Intelligence rollout delays
Although the much-touted Apple Intelligence features will only begin showing up weeks after the initial release of iOS 18, Apple reportedly has no plans to delay releasing its annual update of the iPhone 16.
Runway announces even faster, cheaper AI video model Gen-3 Alpha Turbo
Why would Runway offer a newer, faster version of its latest model with the same quality of AI video generations at a lower price?

Marketing

Introducing recommendations in Google Search Console | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

Design

TikTok Lite: EU closes addictive design case after TikTok commits to not bring back rewards mechanism | TechCrunch
The European Commission has closed a Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of a rewards feature in TikTok Lite by accepting commitments from the social