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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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| 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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| 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 …
More: US Department of Justice, UPI, TechRadar, The Boston Globe, BleepingComputer, and Security Affairs. Forums: r/craftofintelligence
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman is working to get US approval for his chip project as the involvement of UAE and others risks raising national security, antitrust concerns — - Middle East investors, factories may prompt security concerns — Potential new company could trigger antitrust review| 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 …
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| Washington Post: |
Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to affect US elections are flourishing on X, which no longer attends info-sharing meetings with other social platforms — X hasn't sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies| 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 … | 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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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU because of a DMA requirement that forces the company to support alternative browser engines — iOS 17.4 offers a number of changes for the App Store and iPhone in the European Union. This includes things …
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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 Music and Keynote, 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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| 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
| 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 …
More: Meta, The Atlantic, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, Meta, and The Decoder
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature, which will call businesses on users' behalf and hold 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: Gizmodo, ZDNet, Engadget, The Verge, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, and Android Central. X: @rustybrick
| 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 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google makes Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Ultra generally available, adds support for adapter-based tuning in Vertex, and rolls out new developer tools — Google is expanding the range of Gemini large language models it is making available to developers on its Vertex AI platform today.
More: DatacenterDynamics, Google Cloud Blog, Google for Developers Blog, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Firebase Blog, and Google DeepMind
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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