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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's Sora announcement sparks awe and horror, as the startup continues to be frustratingly secretive about the data used to train the text-to-video model — Sam Altman is being secretive in all the wrong places as he barrels toward superintelligent AI. — Every new OpenAI announcement sparks some measure of awe and terror.
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LinkedIn: Francesco Brenna, Aleksa Gordić, Kiryl Trembovolski, and David Feldman
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| Washington Post: |
Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to influence US elections are flourishing on X, which no longer attends biweekly info-sharing meetings with social platforms — X hasn't sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies
Mastodon: @aaronjschaffer@mastodon …. X: @thedragonfeeder. LinkedIn: Yael Eisenstat. Forums: r/Twitter
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
PitchBook: VC investment in crypto rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first rise since Q1 2022; Q4 2023 saw 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020 — - PitchBook said in a fourth-quarter update that the level of investment for crypto-related companies in the fourth quarter totaled $1.9 billion …
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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.
More: The Keyword, Google Open Source Blog, VentureBeat, Infosecurity, Inc.com, TechRadar, CSO, RTTNews, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, BetaNews, SDxCentral, SiliconANGLE, and InfoRiskToday.com
LinkedIn: Phil Venables and Kent Walker
| Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: |
The DSA starts applying to all online intermediaries in the EU, except for businesses with under €10M in annual revenue or fewer than 50 staff, from February 17 — The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Coimisiún na Meán, MarTech, European Commission, and International Business Times. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman is working to get US approval for his chip project, as involving the UAE and others risks raising national security and antitrust concerns — - Middle East investors, factories may prompt security concerns — Potential new company could trigger antitrust review
More: Hindustan Times, San Francisco Business Times, PYMNTS.com, and Reuters
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Letter: 28 civil rights organizations, like Ekō and noyb, urge the EDPB to reject Meta's approach of asking EU users to pay or consent to being tracked for ads — A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wikimedia Europe …
More: Reuters, noyb, Neowin, Tech Xplore, GSMArena.com, Reuters, and Verdict. Mastodon: @apti@mastodon.online
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature, which calls a business on the user's behalf and holds until a human becomes available — Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature where it will “help you place the call …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Engadget, PhoneArena, Mashable, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, and Android Central. X: @rustybrick
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Epic says it “will start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon thanks to the new Digital Markets Act”, after Apple approved its developer account — Three years after Apple kicked Epic Games off the App Store for breaking terms of business, it has allowed the firm to return …
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X: @appleinsider and @epicnewsroom
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox-exclusive games to PS5 and Switch, Xbox's future, “unique” 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 …
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LinkedIn: Russell Sng, Larissa Hazel, and Bill Young
| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
The US and its allies disrupt access by Russia-backed hacking group APT28, or Fancy Bear, to 1,000+ home and small business routers used for criminal purposes — The US and its allies have disrupted access by a Russian-state sponsored hacking organization to “well over a thousand home … | Associated Press: |
OpenAI, Google, Meta, TikTok, X, and others sign a voluntary accord at the Munich Security Conference to fight AI-generated deepfakes designed to mislead voters — Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools …
More: Microsoft, Reuters, Financial Times, NBC News, CNBC, NPR, The Verge, Shacknews, and Microsoft On the Issues. Threads: @mattnavarra
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse adds texting to group voice chats, letting users train a custom voice and send asynchronous texts that the app will read out in the sender's voice — Clubhouse, the once-popular live audio app, announced today that users can now text their friends and they'll hear those texts in the sender's custom voice.| 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.
More: US Department of Justice, The Register, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, @boztank, and MIXED Reality News
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
The FTC proposes new rules that would make companies liable if they “know or have reason to know” their AI tech is being used to harmfully impersonate consumers — The US Federal Trade Commission moved to put new rules into place around impersonation, citing the rising threat … | 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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