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OpenAI launched custom instructions for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, Google cofounder Sergey Brin working on Google’s Gemini model, and Reddit begins removing mods from protesting subreddits.

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The UK government is looking to update its 2016 Investigatory Powers Act that would require companies to comply immediately if the UK’s Home Office demands technology companies disable security features before shipping them to consumers. Amazon says it’s bringing its Amazon One palm recognition technology to all of its 500 + Whole Foods stores in the US. In Netflix’s latest quarterly earnings, the company saw its second straight quarter of subscriber growth, up 5.9 million worldwide to 238.4 million.

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Apple reportedly has a ChatGPT competitor, Google developed an AI that writes news stories, Apple says no to backdoors in the UK.

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Why are TikTokers acting like NPCs in a video game? Netflix has removed the basic plan in the U.S. and the U.K. And we have the latest on the soap-opera that is the Microsoft-Activision acquisition.

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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard extend their merger deadline to October, the UK’s CMA grants initial approval to Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel licenses its NUC designs to Asus.

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