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Sources: Alphabet is considering an offer for the marketing software company HubSpot, which has a $35B market cap, in what would be its largest acquisition yet — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot (HUBS.N) …
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| Bloomberg: |
YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini — The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI's text-to-video generator would be a infraction of the platform's terms of service …
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| Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September — New York CNN — — Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices — Last week, Ernie Smith, the publisher of the website Tedium, got a “copyright infringement notice” … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money — Google is suing two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent cryptocurrency trading apps …
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Ripple plans to launch a stablecoin later in 2024 that is “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents” — The token will be “100% backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S. government Treasuries and other cash equivalents.” according to the company.
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won't be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops — Users have been prompted to withdraw Bitcoin NFTs from Binance by May 18. — Trading volume for NFTs is at multi-year lows.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A profile of hacker Alejandro Caceres, aka P4x, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively — As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use — Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to users with at least 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” — Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands its Custom Model training program with “assisted fine-tuning”, letting organizations set up training data pipelines, evaluation systems, and more — OpenAI is expanding a program, Custom Model, to help customers develop tailored AI models using its technology for specific use cases, domains and applications.
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says “Tesla is increasing comp ... of our AI engineering team” because OpenAI has been “aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers” with “massive” offers — - CEO says carmaker is going extra mile to retain specialists — Exodus may exacerbate concerns about conflicts, governance
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Cohere releases Command R+, an AI model for business customers the startup says performs competitively against OpenAI and others on “business-critical” tasks — Cohere says its new technology is cheaper than OpenAI's offerings. — Artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor — A previously unknown contributor to the popular open-source Android app store F-Droid repeatedly pressured its developers to push …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR, AR, and AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more — Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI. — 2014 doesn't seem that long ago to me.
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| Tim Stelloh / NBC News: |
A Washington state judge bars using AI-enhanced video as evidence in a murder trial, a ruling experts say may be the first of its kind in a US criminal court — Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software.
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| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
An interview with Saber founder Matthew Karch on criticism of Embracer, joining Embracer's board in 2020, layoffs, and Embracer's $2B+ Savvy deal breaking down — Studio founder shares his view of the story behind Embracer's struggles, and why he's bullish on the group's recovery
More: PC Gamer and Video Games Chronicle
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Cisco launches the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, joined by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, SAP, and Accenture, to research AI's impact on 56 ICT job roles — AI might not be coming for all jobs, but it might be coming for some. — UPS's largest layoff in its 116-year history was the result of … | Niamh Rowe / Fortune: |
Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm — Ellipsis Labs today announced $20 million in Series A funding, led by Paradigm with participation from Electric Capital.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross — Video platform provider Vimeo named Philip Moyer, a senior exec at Google Cloud overseeing AI applied engineering and business development, as CEO and member of its board.| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Google expands Search Generative Experience to the UK, after launching the feature in preview in the US in May 2023, starting with some logged-in users — Google has begun trialling search answers written by artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK, after the feature was tested in the US last year.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Amazon merchants complain of scam returns, where buyers ship junk back to sellers and claim they are returns, and say Amazon's policies favor customers — Merchants receive junk instead of returned purchases, a sore point as they say Amazon's policies favor customersSponsor Posts
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