Morning Brew - July 29, 2024
Welcome to the Morning Brew technology newsletter. Our daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of major tech and programming stories.
Welcome to the Morning Brew technology newsletter.
Our daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of major tech and programming stories.
Tech
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The Disney Plus, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle is now available
Prices start at $16.99 per month for the ad-supported tier.
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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp has 100M monthly active users in the US | TechCrunch
WhatsApp has recently ramped up its marketing push in the U.S.
Ivan Mehta
Cryptocurrency
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Wall Street Still Doesn’t Really Get Ethereum, Says 10X Research - Decrypt
Wall Street has been slow to embrace Ethereum because firms are having trouble getting their heads around it, says 10x Research.
Murtuza Merchant
Thread by @ethena_labs on Thread Reader App
@ethena_labs: Introducing the Ethena reward-bearing asset proposals, with entities pitching for an allocation from Ethena’s liquid cash backing One of the early applications is from Securitize, the distributors of @...…
Ethena Labs
AI
Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results
Microsoft is beginning previews of its Bing generative search, which will insert AI-powered summaries above the usual results.
Anna WashenkoOpenAI announces free fine-tuning for GPT-4o mini model
Free fine-tuning allows OpenAI customers to train the GPT-4o mini model on additional data at no charge until September 23, starting with Tier 4 and Tier 5 users.
Paul Krill
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
SearchGPT is just a “prototype” for now.
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Google claims math breakthrough with proof-solving AI models
AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve problems, with caveats on time and human assistance.
Benj Edwards
Elon Musk will ‘discuss’ Tesla investing $5 billion in his private AI company
Elon Musk says that he will ‘discuss’ Tesla investing $5 billion in xAI, his own private artificial intelligence company. For…
Fred Lambert
OpenAI is rolling out voice capabilities soon.
According to a post from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ChatGPT Plus subscribers will get access to its new voice feature next week. The company initially demoed this feature back in May, you know, the one that sounded like Scarlett Johansson’s character from the movie Her? They yoinked that voice option though, sorry guys. This will be interesting to test out, especially ahead of ChatGPT getting baked into Siri.
Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition
Team America AI Police?
Brandon Vigliarolo
DevOps
Amazon EKS introduces new controls for Kubernetes version support policy - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EKS introduces new controls for Kubernetes version support policy
Docker fixes critical 5-year old authentication bypass flaw
Docker has issued security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting certain versions of Docker Engine that could allow an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under certain circumstances.
Marketing
Reddit launches Lead Generation Ads powered by Zapier integration
Collect high-quality leads from Reddit’s engaged audience with our newest ad format: Lead Generation Ads
TikTok Adds Custom Thumbnail Option for Clips
A new way to customize your TikTok videos.
Andrew Hutchinson
