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OpenAI unveils Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video, as a research product for some creators and security experts — OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step. — We already know that OpenAI's chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU because of a DMA requirement that forces Apple to allow alternative browser engines — iOS 17.4 offers a number of changes for the App Store and iPhone in the European Union. This includes things like third-party app marketplaces …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google launches Gemini 1.5 for developers and enterprise users, with a context window of up to 1M tokens, and says Gemini 1.5 Pro is on par with Gemini Ultra — Barely two months after launching Gemini, the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry, the company is already announcing its successor.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox-exclusive games to PS5 and Switch, the future of Xbox, next-gen hardware, regulation, and more — Microsoft has been gradually moving Xbox away from the idea of a single piece of hardware in recent years, with ambitions …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has expanded testing of a Copilot-like tool for Xcode and is exploring AI features for productivity apps and a Spotlight search that uses LLMs — - Company is working on several generative AI-based features — New tool would help developers create code more quickly
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta plans to start charging a 30% fee for boosting Facebook and Instagram posts on iOS later in February, after Apple extended its 30% cut to boosting in 2022 — Meta said Thursday that it will start charging a 30 percent fee when advertisers pay to boost the visibility of their posts in Facebook's and Instagram's iOS apps.
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Ukrainian Vyacheslav Penchukov pleads guilty in the US for his role in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups, which stole millions from victims for over a decade — Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov pleaded guilty to two counts, each of which carries a possible 20-year prison term.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds four new tools that let users to incorporate, or “remix”, a music video in their Shorts, weeks after UMG pulled its song catalog from TikTok — YouTube is introducing the ability for users to incorporate or “remix” a music video in their short-form videos … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Sources: spyware vendor Variston is closing after Google “burned” its name publicly in 2022; source: a disgruntled staffer sent its malicious code to Google — The Barcelona-based startup's malware has been used to target iPhones, Android devices and PCs| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Toast plans to lay off ~550 employees, or ~10% of its workforce, to promote “operating expense efficiency” and will incur about $50M in costs such as severance — Toast Inc., a restaurant-focused software company, will cut about 550 employees, adding to the spate … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Meta releases V-JEPA, an AI model that learns by predicting missing or masked parts of unlabeled video to develop a conceptual understanding of the world — Meta's AI researchers have released a new model that's trained in a similar way as today's large language models, but instead of learning from words …
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| Davey Winder / Forbes: |
Google announces the AI Cyber Defense Initiative, which includes launching new AI security training and open sourcing Magika, a tool used to protect Gmail users — Google has confirmed a new security scheme which, it says, will help “secure, empower and advance our collective digital future” using AI.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filings: Sam Altman is the sole owner of the OpenAI Startup Fund, which reported $175M in total commitments in May 2023; Microsoft is an outside limited partner — - By last May it reported $175 million in total commitments, and a portfolio that included video editor Descript and legal tool Harvey.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok debuts a native Apple Vision Pro app with a similar UI to its mobile apps; in January, an executive said TikTok “redesigned the entire TikTok experience” — Apple's Vision Pro headset now has a native TikTok app, the shortform video service has announced.
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| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn announce an updated Kids Online Safety Act and say 60+ US senators support the bill; KOSA faces uncertainty in the House — With more than 60 backers, an updated Kids Online Safety Act finally has a path to passage in the Senate but faces uncertainty in the House.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The US Patent and Trademark Office denies OpenAI's attempt to trademark “GPT”, ruling that the term is “merely descriptive” — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI's attempt to trademark “GPT,” ruling that the term is “merely descriptive” and therefore unable to be registered.| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
The European Court of Human Rights rules backdoors that weaken E2EE can undermine human rights, after Russia began forcing Telegram to decrypt messages in 2017 — Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says. — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) …
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| Granth Vanaik / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $2.3B, vs. $2.24B est., total orders up 23% YoY to 574M, and Q1 profit forecast below estimates; DASH drops 8%+ — DoorDash (DASH.O) projected annual core profit largely above expectations and beat fourth-quarter revenue estimates on Thursday …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $984.4M, vs. $968.2M est., and warns of a “challenging” environment for media and entertainment in 2024; ROKU drops 14%+ — Roku revenue came in above Wall Street forecasts for the fourth quarter of 2023 — and it touted new milestones …
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| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue up 51% YoY to $953.8M, vs. $826M est., net income of $273M, its first profit in two years, vs. a loss of $557M YoY; COIN jumps 10%+ — Revenue surged 51% to $953.8 million, topping the $826 million average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
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| Chainalysis: |
In 2023, crypto money laundering fell 29.5% YoY to $22.2B, 109 addresses got $10M+ in illicit crypto each, and five off-ramp services got 71.7% of illicit funds — Coming soon — The goal of money laundering is to obscure the criminal origins of funds so that they can be accessed and spent.
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