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The US DOJ sues TikTok, saying it collected children's data without parents' permission, knowingly let users under the age of 13 create accounts, and more — The Justice Department said that TikTok illegally collected children's data and knowingly allowed users under the age of 13 to create accounts.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech — In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.
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| The Information: |
Character.AI told staff that investors will be bought out at a valuation of ~2.5x its $1B 2023 valuation, and it plans to adopt open-source models for products — Google has agreed to pay a licensing fee to chatbot maker Character.AI for its models and will hire its cofounders and many of its researchers, the companies said.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia told Microsoft, and another large cloud provider, that its new Blackwell AI chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws — Nvidia's upcoming artificial intelligence chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws …
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| Financial Times: |
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes — Technology stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in their investments in artificial intelligence
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms — - Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI
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| Josh Noble / Financial Times: |
How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation — NBC and Eurosport among those using ‘creators’ to spur interest and reach wider audiences — Sandra Kwon's life …
More: Bloomberg, New York Times, Deadline, and The Guam Daily Post
| Eric Platt / Financial Times: |
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B — Cash holdings hit a record high as billionaire investor dumps $76bn of stocks — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has slashed …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Data breach notifications show personal data of at least 1.43M individuals was compromised in US pharmaceutical giant Cencora's February data breach — Cencora has so far notified over a million people around the U.S. that their personal and protected health information was compromised …
More: BleepingComputer, The Record, Reuters, Security Affairs, SC Media, and Cybernews.com
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at RayV Lite, an open-source laser hacking tool built by two hackers for less than $500 that can reverse engineer chips and exploit their vulnerabilities — The RayV Lite will make it hundreds of times cheaper for anyone to carry out physics-bending feats of hardware hacking.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A security researcher says 4.6M Illinois voter and election records, including Social Security Numbers, were exposed by a contractor's unsecured databases — Social Security numbers, death certificates, voter applications, and other personal information was accessible on the open internet …
More: vpnMentor, The Cyber Express, DataBreaches.Net, and Hackread
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive — ROMhacking.net's data is moving over to the Internet Archive — ROMhacking.net, a longtime resource for video game fan translations …
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Gizmodo, ROMhacking.net, PC Gamer, and Gameranx
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