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| Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: |
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography — The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”
More: The White House, The White House, Forbes, Politico, Nextgov/FCW, Federal News Network, and CyberScoop
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 US revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal — TikTok Shop initially set a goal to increase its US e-commerce business tenfold last year to $17.5 billion in transaction volume …
More: NewsMax.com and Digital Music News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest — EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it claims is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.| Lizzie Dearden / New York Times: |
The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content — A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.
More: Associated Press, The Guardian, Daily Mail, and Politico
Bluesky: @lauridonahue and @mi-forest
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls — Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.
More: NewsMax.com, Mother Jones, Raw Story, and To the Contrary
Bluesky: @wandery, @aleksandrina, and @paleofuture. Mastodon: @GottaLaff@mstdn.social. X: @carolleonnig
Forums: r/politics, r/Intelligence, and r/somethingiswrong2024
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout — Panos Panay needs the more advanced Alexa+ assistant to be a hit. For 10 years, the product has struggled to evolve.
More: USA Today. Bluesky: @sebasaherrera and @sebasaherrera
X: @drbarnard, @panos_panay, and @caro_milanesi
| Dan Whateley / Business Insider: |
YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience — - YouTube is adding a new tool to let creators change thumbnails for videos in different languages.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from “bulletproof” hosts to “residential proxies” that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity — In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” …
Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M — Simetrik, a financial and accounting services startup, raised $30 million in fresh funding led by a unit of Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
More: Simetrik, FinSMEs, and Business Wire
| Ashwin Manikandan / Reuters: |
Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform — Walmart's (WMT.N) Flipkart has secured a lending licence from the Indian central bank and banking regulator …
More: Entrackr, NDTV Profit, Inc42 Media, Times of India, Fortune India, MEDIANAMA, The Paypers, PYMNTS.com, and BMI
| Financial Times: |
Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks — Tech group's corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI| Rest of World: |
New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights — With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.
More: Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Metro.co.uk, Breitbart, Slate, Bloomberg, and Times of San Diego
Bluesky: @unicornriot and @unicornriot
| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M+ — Datasite, a private equity-backed company that caters to dealmakers, has acquired private markets-focused Grata for more than $200 million … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Boulder, CO-based quantum computing startup Infleqtion raised a $100M Series C and partnered with US government services contractor SAIC to pursue defense deals — Quantum computing firm Infleqtion said on Monday it has raised $100 million in venture capital and paired with government …
More: infleqtion and DatacenterDynamics
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