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Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”  —  Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored  —  Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2  —  The landmark decision may be the first time a jury has agreed that a cheat creator violated a gaming company's copyrights.
Washington Post:
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman  —  The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties  —  Despite Meta's promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.
David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank's outlay for AI investments has more than doubled to $8.9B in the 12 months since Masayoshi Son said the firm was ready to go on the “counteroffensive”  —  Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching finances
Bloomberg:
A significant amount of illicit crypto activity still remains in China, highlighting the continuing use of cryptocurrencies despite Beijing's digital asset ban  —  - Crypto tied to billions of dollars in underground transactions  — Cases are further signs of holes in China's digital-asset ban
TIME:
LLMs aren't sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can't have subjective experiences of such states  —  Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human …
Nikkei Asia:
IoT Analytics: Nvidia, whose Q1 data center revenue grew 427% YoY to $22.6B, has 90%+ market share for data center GPUs, as Intel and AMD scrap for second place  —  Chipmakers eye AI ‘inferencing’ and PCs as new battlegrounds  —  PALO ALTO, California — Nvidia is on a roll …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Filings: US pharmaceutical company Cencora notified ~500K individuals since learning about a data breach in February 2024 that exposed health diagnoses and more  —  U.S. pharmaceutical giant Cencora says it is notifying affected individuals that their personal and highly sensitive medical information …
Anton Shilov / AnandTech:
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to build and package chips in the same $32B fab in Hokkaido, setting the company apart from TSMC, Intel, and Samsung  —  To say that the global foundry market is booming right now would be an understatement.  Demand for leading-edge process technologies driven …
More: Nikkei Asia
Christine Mui / Politico:
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs  —  The Commerce Department was expecting to hand out new federal money to high-tech research.  Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead.

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Washington Post:
Internal email: 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi told staffers Bari Weiss pulled the CECOT segment after the Trump administration refused an interview

Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech

Reuters:
Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that “attack” its armed forces

More News

Will Knight / Wired:
How SLMs like Microsoft's Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private
Sharon Adarlo / Futurism:
An analysis of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT's answers to 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow: 52% of answers contain incorrect information, 77% are verbose
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Music's “100 Best Albums” list, based on votes from about 250 employees, artists, and industry executives, is eclectic, unpredictable, and controversial
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Similarweb: Truth Social's average number of US monthly visits was just over 4M from May 2023 to April 2024, down 39%+ from the prior 12-month period

Earlier Picks

Michael Kan / PCMag:
Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Atari buys the Intellivision brand and the rights to 200+ Intellivision Entertainment games, and says the deal “ends the longest running console war in history”
Pete Brown / Columbia Journalism Review:
An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI companies and the questions they raise regarding long-term costs, the selection process, and more
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Spotify tells customers that its Car Thing dashboard accessory will stop working on December 9, less than a year after it went on sale, without offering refunds
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