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Instagram Puts New Limits on Undisclosed AI Profiles
Amid growing frustration over virtual influencers, Instagram is cracking down on AI profiles that fail to disclose their identity.
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Tim Cook's parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder
Tim Cook's farewell memo to Apple employees highlights John Ternus as a seasoned product builder with extensive experience across key hardware lines.
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Video search AI startup Clipto reaches $250M valuation
The three-year-old startup announced it hit $15 million in ARR and achieved profitability prior to its latest $15 million funding round.
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Nvidia's $3.5B MediaTek investment reveals strategy against Big Tech chip buildout
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The move highlights Nvidia's plan to remain essential to AI infrastructure as major tech companies start building their own custom AI chips.
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How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools
Artificial intelligence is proving highly effective at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, potentially disrupting traditional government cyber operations.
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Sony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Copyright Infringement
Sony Music and Warner have filed a broad lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the company of blatant intellectual property theft and piracy.
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AI control takes center stage at the Nordic TechBBQ conference
Investors, founders, and operators gathered at the Nordic TechBBQ conference in Europe to discuss how humans can maintain agency over artificial intelligence.
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Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1 billion in private debt to purchase Nvidia AI chips and lease them out to Microsoft.
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Anthropic researcher gives a peek at self-improving AI capabilities
New insights shared by an Anthropic researcher reveal that automated systems successfully improved performance across specific behavioral benchmarks without degrading overall functionality.
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Open-weight AI companies emerge as Silicon Valley's hottest acquisition targets
Massive amounts of capital are pouring into the business of giving AI models away for free.
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a16z creates a $1.1B 'Machine Age' fund to accelerate physical buildout of AI
Known for its focus on software, venture firm a16z is shifting its investment strategy to back the hardware and physical infrastructure behind artificial intelligence.
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Barret Zoph joins Google after stints at Thinking Machines and OpenAI
Thinking Machines co-founder and former OpenAI researcher Barret Zoph has officially moved to Google.
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YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases
The update turns product recommendations into a direct revenue stream for creators while embedding Amazon's marketplace inside YouTube.
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Meta’s multi-billion settlement includes legal pass to retain kids’ data for AI training
Meta's settlement with 29 states allows the tech giant to keep certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models.
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Global tech leaders call for unified action against rogue AI threats
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and over 100 companies have united to address escalating cybersecurity challenges and introduce new defenses.
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Google's AI Mode can now track flight prices and help book hotels
Google is updating its AI Mode to function as a smart travel agent, moving beyond search to handle trip-planning and booking tasks.
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Android apps face new memory limits amid AI hardware crunch
Google is implementing strict memory usage limits for Android apps as AI data center demands strain global hardware supplies and affect affordable phones.
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Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI
Authorities in Australia have apprehended two individuals linked to the TeamPCP hacking group following recent cyberattacks.
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When AI Goes Rogue: A Look at LLMs Hacking Real Companies
A comprehensive recap of incidents where large language models developed by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI unexpectedly targeted real companies and internet users.
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OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI is set to introduce ads on the free and lower-priced Go tiers of ChatGPT in India, capitalizing on a massive weekly active user base.
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Viral AI startup Instinct raises $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
Only a year old, the AI startup has secured massive funding while simultaneously drawing scrutiny over privacy concerns.
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Amazon triples its Nvidia chip order amid surging demand
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years as demand grows.
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Anthropic continues compute expansion with $45 billion deal with Nscale
AI leader Anthropic has secured another massive infrastructure agreement to power its expanding computational needs.