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| Jake Evans / ABC: |
Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law — In short: — Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google starts linking to The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine in Search, letting users view archived versions of pages as part of “About this page” feature — Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results.
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| Taylor Swift / Taylor Swift on Instagram: |
Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, noting that Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated image of her “endorsing” him prompted her to reveal her plans — Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. If you haven't already, now is a great time to do your research …
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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams — The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API-serving platforms Le Chat and Le Platforme “soon” — French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text.
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Riot Platforms plans the world's largest bitcoin mine in Corsicana, a former Texas oil boom town, using a liquid immersion system, despite residents' protests — A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world's largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in December 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE — MariaDB's short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sergey Brin says he's working at Google “pretty much every day” and that AI algorithmic improvements are “even outpacing the increased compute” put into models — Google co-founder and ex-Alphabet president Sergey Brin said he's back working at Google “pretty much every day” …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWrite's 70B-parameter AI model, says he “got ahead” of himself but doesn't explain why his model underperformed — Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI, also known as its signature AI assistant writing product HyperWrite …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
CTIA: Americans used 100M+ TB of wireless data in 2023, up 36% YoY, the largest single-year increase; the number of wireless connections rose 6% YoY to 558M — Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36% over the prior year in the largest single-year increase …
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| Hans Peter Brondmo / Wired: |
The former CEO of Everyday Robots, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a robot body — As the head of Alphabet's AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can't come soon enough.
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Forums: r/robotics and r/Futurology
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
On Day 2 of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp executive testifying as a government witness said Google held publishers “hostage” — Google's tool that lets publishers sell ad space on their websites is ubiquitous, but that's largely a testament …
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| Brianna Sacks / Washington Post: |
An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Meta says it is “investigating this issue” — The Post has collected more than 40 examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during at least 20 wildfires since June.
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