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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media — Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta announces a $14.3B investment in Scale AI and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to help oversee its AI efforts; source: Scale AI's post-money valuation is $29B — Meta said Thursday that it has backed Scale, without including details. The size of the investment was $14.3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Meta's Scale AI deal dwarfs rivals' “reverse acquihires” in scope and ambition, showing that its fear of lagging in AI outweighs fears of regulatory backlash — Tech Across the Globe … Revalued — Samsung and Nvidia are investing in Skild AI, seeking to support … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says it is testing Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, available for Labs users in English in the US — If you opt into the test, you'll see the option to generate an Audio Overview based on some of your searches. … Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly — It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement — The installation-free apps will join the Google graveyard in December. … Google has confirmed that it plans to shut …
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto — - AI startup Yupp has raised $33 million in a seed funding round led by a16z crypto, founded by a team of veterans from Coinbase, Google, and X.
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| Matt Swider / The Shortcut: |
Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles — 🏆 Review score: 5 out of 5 — 🏅 Editor's Choice Award — ✅ 🎮 Excellent build quality and premium feel| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions — Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated” by therapy AI chatbots — Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 — It apparently took just days to make using Google's new text-to-video generator, Veo 3.
More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Rundown AI, Shelly Palmer, WinBuzzer, and Mashable
| Axios: |
Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license — We're learning more about Atticus, the stealthy stablecoin startup that we recently reported was raising funding … | CNBC: |
Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six “pillars” to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market — For the better part of a decade, Amazon has been trying to carve it's way into the U.S. health-care market …
More: Chain Store Age, Reuters, and Becker's Hospital Review
| Dong Cao / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 — Shenzhen-based Tencent has reached out to the family of Nexon's late founder Kim Jung-ju to discuss the possibility of an acquisition …
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