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Terraform Labs and co-founder Do Kwon agree to pay $4.47B to resolve a US SEC lawsuit, after a jury in April found them liable for fraud following a civil trial — - Deal includes $204.3 million payment by founder Do Kwon — Terraform, Kwon found liable for fraud in April civil trial| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A hacker says they breached Tile internal tools, including one for processing data for cops, and stole customer data like phone numbers, addresses, and Tile IDs — A hacker broke into systems used by Tile, the tracking company, then stole a wealth of customer data and had access to internal company tools.
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Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, intended to be a smaller yet capable model on consumer GPUs, with 2B parameters, compared to SD3 Large's 8B — Bigger isn't always better, especially when it comes to running generative AI models on commodity hardware.
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X says Likes are now private for everyone, meaning users are no longer be able to see who liked someone else's post — Likes on the website will no longer cause PR crises for public figures. — Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform, politicians and public personalities …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo updates the software on its 672 vehicles, after one unoccupied car collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix on May 21, marking Waymo's second recall ever — Waymo is issuing a voluntary software recall after one of its driverless vehicles collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, last month, the company said.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
A list of apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2024, like 1Password and LastPass, call transcription apps like Truecaller, and custom emoji apps like Newji — Apple has been on a spree of late, announcing a host of new features for its various devices earlier this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
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| Verne Kopytoff / Fortune: |
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati responded to Elon Musk's denouncement of Apple's OpenAI deal, saying OpenAI cares deeply about user privacy and security — A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
IBM and Xerox PARC engineer Lynn Conway, who helped shape the way chips are designed and undertook a gender transition in 1968, died last weekend at age 86 — - In the 1970s, Conway helped author “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a seminal book in the field of chip design that became …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible — It only works for macOS 15 guests on macOS 15 hosts, but it's a big improvement. — We've written before about Apple's handy …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube plans to roll out its Thumbnail Test & Compare tool to all creators “in the coming weeks”, letting them test video thumbnails “evenly” across audiences — YouTube is preparing to roll out a new thumbnail testing feature to creators, which means you'll … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Canary Technologies, which offers tools for hotel guest management, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to nearly $100M — The hospitality industry is back, baby. And with it comes a chance for technology startups to not only help hotels streamline their operations …
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A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X: most see news content, but a minority says they are on the platform for news, except for X — X remains more of a news destination than other sites, but the vast majority of users on all four are seeing news-related content| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Jingna Zhang, the founder of anti-AI social platform Cara, about its focus on artists, having nearly 900K users, generative AI vs. creativity, and more — Artists are fleeing Meta's platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang's Cara … | Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 43% YoY to $12.49B, vs. $12.01B est., raises FY 2024 revenue forecast, announces a 10:1 stock split; AVGO jumps 9%+ after hours — Tech conglomerate Broadcom (AVGO.O) raised its annual revenue forecast on Wednesday, betting on higher demand for its networking equipment … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on co-authoring the “Attention is all you need” paper at Google, focusing on the enterprise, AI not being a bubble, and more — Enterprise is the pathway to profit, Gomez says, but maybe don't ask it to do medicine quite yet.| Benjamin Hoffman / New York Times: |
Some people are using “slop” to describe low-grade AI material in social media, art, books, and more; the term emerged in reaction to AI art generators in 2022 — A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material. — You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Databricks launches AI/BI, a visualization tool to let users type questions about their data to build charts and graphs, competing with Microsoft and Salesforce — - New business tool integrates generative AI for faster results — Company last year acquired a maker of large language models
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears of China using Middle Eastern countries as a proxy to overcome US AI chip sanctions are “valid” — But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries … Sponsor Posts
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