Tech Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 hands-on: essentially the same displays and some nice upgrades, but Samsung seems to be wasting its advantage and $1,800 is ludicrous (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
Tech How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war (Will Knight/Wired)
Tech Alibaba plans to let business customers use Meta's Llama 2 to build apps, the first Chinese company to do so; companies with <700M MAUs can use Llama for free (Josh Ye/Reuters)
Tech A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity (Ben Tarnoff/The Guardian)
Tech A profile of Indian edtech giant Byju's CEO Byju Raveendran, who has been in crisis mode for months but is expecting a $1B equity investment as early as August (Anto Antony/Bloomberg)
Tech UNESCO calls for a global ban on smartphones in schools, saying intensive technology use negatively impacts student performance and increases disruption (The Guardian)
Tech Ant Group plans to exclude blockchain and other businesses from its financial-related unit that will be used for a Chinese financial holding license (Bloomberg)
Tech AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Berkeley CS professor Stuart Russell warn Congress that AI could cause serious harms in a few years (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
Tech Former employees detail how the Apple Card partnership between Apple and Goldman Sachs soured; a source says Apple Card had ~10M users as of earlier this year (Lauren Tara LaCapra/The Information)
Tech Meta hasn’t labeled propaganda accounts of state-backed media from Russia and other authoritarian governments on Threads, unlike on Facebook and Instagram (Newley Purnell/Wall Street Journal)
