Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft and the UK CMA agree to a “stay of the litigation” to negotiate restructuring the Activision deal, after a US court rejected the FTC’s arguments  —  Microsoft and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have both agreed to pause their legal battle … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the EU Commission will say on July 12 that its regulators accept Broadcom’s concessions in its $69B VMware deal; the US and UK need to approve the deal  —  UK and US remain among holdouts to one of the biggest tech acquisitions as they continue to probe competition concerns Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Llion Jones, who co-authored the pioneering “Attention Is All You Need” paper on LLMs at Google, plans to depart Google Japan later in July to launch a startup  —  An artificial intelligence researcher who co-authored one of Google’s most influential papers in the field is leaving the company to launch a startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: Discord finally debuts parental supervision tools after feedback from parents and experts; parents can’t see message contents, cannot add time limits, and more  —  Freewheeling platform popular with gamers now offers child-monitoring tools—but not time limits Lees verder op Tech Meme