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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple rejected Meta's overtures to integrate Llama into the iPhone months ago, in part because it sees Meta's privacy practices as not stringent enough — - Apple has been looking to forge agreements to use AI chatbots — Report indicated that Apple and Meta are in discussions
More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, BGR, Notebookcheck, Cult of Mac, The Crypto Times, and Hindustan Times
Threads: @kalihays1 and @sobri909
X: @benbajarin, @dead_cell, @eshumarneedi, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
The RIAA sues AI music services Suno and Udio over alleged mass copyright infringement and claims they are trying to “hide the full scope of their infringement” — A group of record labels including the big three — Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment …
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LinkedIn: Rohan Paul and Declan McGlynn
Forums: r/ChatGPT and r/MediaSynthesis
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
In preliminary findings, the EU says Apple's anti-steering developer rules breach the DMA; the EU is also probing if Apple's developer fees comply with EU rules — Tech giant faces penalty of up to 10% of global annual revenue — Brussels has accused Apple of stifling competition on its App Store …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, r/technology, and r/apple
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
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Threads: @benedictevans. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and r/technology
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: US is probing China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom over concerns they are providing Americans' data to Beijing through their US cloud services — The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources describe Apple's efforts to fully automate iPhone assembly lines, helping reduce its reliance on China, including by acquiring startups like DarwinAI — It was the kind of incident Apple executives never want to repeat. In November 2022, at a factory in Zhengzhou, China …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Apple Must, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, iThinkDifferent, Cult of Mac, TweakTown, AppleInsider, and iMore
X: @waynema and @cherthedev
Forums: r/Futurology, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| The Information: |
Sources: Google has been developing a product to create customizable chatbots, which could be modeled on celebrities, and plans to launch it as soon as 2024 — Google wants chatbots that people can hang with—not just pelt with questions. — The search engine giant has been developing …
More: Engadget, Neowin, 9to5Google, and NewsBytes
X: @jon_victor_, @julia_hornstein, and @andrewcurran_
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Meta has seemingly stopped trying as hard to moderate its services, overrun with AI spam and scams; X gutting safety staff may have lowered the industry's bar — Facebook has been overrun with AI spam and scams. Experts say Facebook has stopped asking them for help.
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Forums: r/inthenews and Beehaw
| Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg: |
Uber has begun locking NYC drivers out of its app during low demand periods to fight a local rule that requires drivers be paid for idle time between rides — - Company locks drivers out of its app at unpredictable times — Uber blames Lyft, which is now threatening its own lockouts
More: PYMNTS.com, Engadget, and Wall Street Journal
Mastodon: @AoaI@mastodon.online. Bluesky: @gatherer.bsky.social. X: @evangorelick and @danawollman. LinkedIn: Evan Gorelick
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Emergence, which is building “agent-based” systems that orchestrate tasks by routing them to first- and third-party AI systems, emerges from stealth with $97.2M — Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it's promising the moon.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on updating the company's famous culture memo, its advertising ambitions, bundling, game streaming, AI, and more — The co-CEO who replaced co-founder Reed Hastings details the company's new culture memo, its ad ambitions, and what's next for Netflix.| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon is working on an AI chatbot, codenamed Metis, designed to compete directly with ChatGPT; source: it's tentatively slated for a September launch — - Amazon is working on a new AI service that competes with ChatGPT. — The project is internally codenamed Metis.
More: Benzinga, The Information, GeekWire, and SiliconANGLE
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Belgium-based TechWolf, which provides AI-powered internal talent management software, has raised a $42.75M Series B led by Felix Capital at a $150M valuation — Layoffs continue to buffet the world of technology, but with the need for tech talent in organizations only growing, there's a bigger focus on how internal talent is managed.Sponsor Posts
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