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Disney is ditching Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and adding OpenAI's Codex

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Disney is leaning into AI under CEO Josh D'Amaro, but it's dropping Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. Blanca Cruz / AFP via Getty Images; Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Disney plans to dump Microsoft's GitHub Copilot while bringing OpenAI's Codex aboard. Eight Disney employees said they didn't rely on GitHub Copilot, which faces stiff competition. Claude and Cursor have become beloved inside the Mouse House as tech staffers push AI adoption. Disney has decided it no longer needs a Copilot on its AI coding journey. The Mouse House is ditching Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and several other AI coding tools in August in the US, tech leaders told select staffers on Tuesday afternoon, according to a screenshot of an internal message viewed by Business Insider. These changes don't apply internationally, a Disney tech leader told employees. A breakup with Disney is the latest headache for Microsoft's Copilot , which "lag...
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027   —  OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/w2yNmgx
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The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more   —  The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/b4utAdK
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Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

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Dustin Volz / New York Times : Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system   —  Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/R7Zfxcl
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X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card   —  X has officially launched X Money, which includes Apple Wallet support, moving the service beyond its invite-only beta and beginning a rollout today. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/iOHhot7
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Xbox says it is working to resolve a "major outage" affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)

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Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle : Xbox says it is working to resolve a “major outage” affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services   —  PLAYERS ARE REPORTING HAVING ISSUES WHEN TRYING TO SIGN IN OR SEE THEIR LIBRARY  —  Xbox has acknowledged that it's currently suffering … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hZdlzNA
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Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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Ashley Stewart / Business Insider : Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers   —  Microsoft went all in on AI.  Is its North Star now a noose?  —  Three years ago, Satya Nadella catapulted Microsoft to the front … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/TwVPaXB
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