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| Niléane / MacStories: |
Apple releases iOS 17.4 with a new default browser prompt in the EU, support for third-party browser engines, transcripts for Podcasts, 118 new emojis, and more — Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.4, the fourth major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says alternative app stores will stop working, and the apps installed from them will stop updating, if a user travels outside of the EU “for too long” — Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk's lawsuit, accusing Musk of suing when the company “started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI's mission without him” — Musk filed the lawsuit last week against OpenAI, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman …
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| The Verge: |
OpenAI says that while discussing a for-profit structure, Elon Musk “wanted us to merge with Tesla” or “majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO” — In a blog post published on Tuesday, OpenAI said it will move to dismiss “all of Elon's claims” …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Epic says Apple removed its iOS developer account, hampering its app store plans, and shares a letter from Apple lawyers calling Epic “verifiably untrustworthy” — After Epic CEO Tim Sweeney criticized how Apple is rolling out alternative app stores on iOS in the EU …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Microsoft engineer Shane Jones warns the FTC and Microsoft's board that Copilot Designer generates violent and sexual images, violates copyright laws, and more — - Shane Jones, who's worked at Microsoft for six years, has been testing the company's AI image generator in his free time and told CNBC he is disturbed by his findings.
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| Financial Times: |
Email: Spanish data protection regulator AEPD demands Worldcoin cease collecting personal data in the country and gives the company 72 hours to prove compliance — Spain has moved to block Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
CCDH: Midjourney, DreamStudio, ChatGPT Plus, and Microsoft Image Creator created election disinformation in 41% of tests; Midjourney was most likely to do so — New York CNN — — Leading artificial intelligence image generators can be manipulated into creating misleading election-related images … | Axios: |
Sources: a16z expects to raise $6.5B to $7B for a master feeder fund by early April; 50% would go to its fourth growth fund and 10% to its second gaming fund — - Half would go to the firm's fourth growth fund, which would represent a significant size decline from its $5 billion predecessor.| Assaf Gilead / Globes Online: |
Industrial cybersecurity startup Claroty raised $100M in a “pre-IPO round” at an estimated $2.5B valuation and reports $100M ARR, after raising $400M in 2021 — Claroty provides infrastructure cybersecurity and secures connected devices in all Pfizer, BMW, Siemens and Schneider plants.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
More than 100 top AI researchers sign an open letter imploring AI companies to provide a legal and technical safe harbor for researchers to study their products — Tech company policies have put a chill on independent AI research, says open letter — More than 100 top artificial intelligence …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Canalys Q4 2023 smartphone chip shipments: MediaTek rose 21% YoY to 117M, Apple rose 7% YoY to 78M, Qualcomm rose 1% YoY to 69M; Samsung dropped 48% YoY to 13M — Google Pixel is coming off of its best-selling year to date, but according to one report, Google shipped fewer Tensor chips in Q4 2023.| Michael J. Totten / City Journal: |
A look at the AI revolution, reminiscent of the industrial revolution but unfolding over years rather than centuries, and the views of AI optimists and doomers — Machines can now talk with us in ways that aren't preprogrammed. They can draw pictures, write passable (if generic) …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
NIST staff, US officials, congressional aides, and tech executives detail a massive resources gap between NIST, tasked with keeping AI safe, and tech companies — Funding challenges at the National Institute of Standards and Technology could jeopardize the Biden administration AI work
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Under regulatory pressure around vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google in dropping egress fees for moving data out of its cloud; Microsoft Azure's fees remain — Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called “egress fees” attached.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta details WhatsApp and Messenger interoperability under the EU's DMA, saying third-parties must use Signal's protocol, which Meta already uses for encryption — Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
An in-depth look at Nvidia's DGX H100 setup: 32 DGX boxes, each weighing ~300lbs and housing eight individual $25K H100 GPUs, a cooling system, and other chips — Built to drive the graphics of videogames including ‘Call of Duty, ’ they now also power ChatGPT and other AI tools| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Patronus AI releases CopyrightCatcher and says that GPT-4 produced copyrighted content on 44% of prompts, Mixtral on 22%, Llama 2 on 10%, and Claude 2.1 on 8% — - Patronus AI, an AI model evaluation company founded by ex-Meta researchers, on Wednesday released research showcasing … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok moves its Creativity Program, now rebranded as the Creator Rewards Program, out of beta, and requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized — A year ago, TikTok introduced a new way for creators on the platform to make money: make longer videos.| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
NPCI data: UPI transactions processed by Paytm fell 14% to $19.9B from January 2024 after RBI curbs, while PhonePe rose nearly 7% and Google Pay rose almost 6% — - Paytm loses usage even before any disruption to its systems — Services of Walmart, Google capitalize on Paytm's troubles| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers' Association's copyright lawsuit against X but dismissed its claim that X engaged in direct infringement — The music labels suing Twitter — now X — for copyright infringement can move forward with parts of their lawsuit.| Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics: |
AI chip startup Taalas emerges from stealth, raised $50M across two rounds led by Pierre Lamond and Quiet Capital, and plans to unveil its LLM chip in Q3 2024 — Launched by Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic — AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth to announce that it has raised $50 million over two funding rounds.
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