Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters: Apple plans a software update for iPhone 12 in France to address radiation concerns, says “this is related to a specific testing protocol” used by the regulator  — ... Read more »

Victor Tangermann / Futurism: Microsoft’s Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42”  —  “AI should not be writing... Read more »

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature  —  Discussions... Read more »

Jon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the... Read more »

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023  —  –... Read more »

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users’ location for commercial gain even after they opted out  —  Google will... Read more »

Bloomberg: The US Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national security issues raised by Elon Musk’s denial to extend Starlink to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russia  —  The Senate Armed Services... Read more »

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft unveils EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI framework that the company says can help create enzymes for new therapeutics and drug delivery methods  —  Proteins, the natural molecules... Read more »

Bloomberg: At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle”  —  Hi all, it’s Tom... Read more »