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Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent — Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans' personal location …
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A look at Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, staffed largely by ex-intelligence and military personnel, which has become a key pillar of US cyber defense — Over the past decade, the software company has become a pillar of US cyber defenses — a position that could become more complicated under Trump.| Financial Times: |
The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt — HMRC has stopped demanding ridesharing company pay VAT on the full cost of rides after legal setback in related matter
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign, the Ace headphones, subscriptions, the canceled video player, Google, and more — The man who hopes to become Sonos' next permanent CEO talks about the app, the now-canceled video player, subscriptions, Google, and more.| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D — - AI21 Labs is raising a $300 million Series D funding round to build its own LLMs. — It aims to reduce hallucinations in generative AI, which would enhance reliability for companies.
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| Lauren Kent / CNN: |
Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution — Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis …
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| Jessica Mathews / Fortune: |
The Trump administration's plan to cut the budget of the NSF, considered key to US tech leadership, by about 57% to $3.9B is alarming the startup and VC sector — From NASA to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump's reform agenda has thrown numerous federal agencies under …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Ramp: 32.4% of US businesses using Ramp cards had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell to 0.1% in April — OpenAI appears to be pulling well ahead of rivals in the race to capture enterprises' AI spend, according to transaction data from fintech firm Ramp.
More: Ramp and Cautious Optimism
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations — Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have.
More: New Scientist, Hugging Face, Giskard on Hugging Face, and eWeek
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta unveils AssetGen 2.0, an AI system that generates higher quality 3D assets compared to AssetGen 1.0, rolling out to Horizon creators later in 2025 — Meta has revealed a new version of its 3D asset generation AI system that it says is a “significant leap forward”.| Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech: |
The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief — FDA Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning Biotech — The FDA has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer …
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo, who is tasked with broadening ChatGPT amid a straining Microsoft relationship and a battle with Elon Musk — Simo will oversee executives and seek to broaden the company's hit chatbot into a Swiss Army knife of artificial intelligence software.| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022 — Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year.
More: The New Stack, ServiceNow, SC Media, and Constellation Research
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI” — SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.Sponsor Posts
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