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Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission — Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities - including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans — AI chatbots can be manipulated much in the same way that people can, according to researchers. But first... Three things to know:| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access FEMA networks — An internal FEMA email obtained by Nextgov/FCW ordered all agency employees to change their passwords “due to recent cybersecurity incidents and threats.”
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TikTok suspends its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia, citing “increasing violence in protests” over lawmakers' pay — ByteDance's TikTok has suspended its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia following protests in the country, its spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue, up from 25% in Q2, 2024 — Two Nvidia customers made up 39% of Nvidia's revenue in its July quarter, the company revealed in a financial filing on Wednesday, raising concerns about the concentration of the chipmaker's clientele.| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% — Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn't expanding as quickly as it had hoped.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
ChatGPT integration in Apple's Xcode 26 beta 7 defaults to GPT-5; developers can now also use Claude Sonnet 4 by signing into their paid Claude account — Apple has released a new beta of Xcode 26 for developers today with a pair of notable changes. There's now support for ChatGPT 5 …
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| Bloomberg: |
China says it will prevent excess competition in the AI sector, echoing Xi Jinping's caution against excessive local government investment in AI last month — China said it will prevent excess competition in the red-hot artificial intelligence sector, a signal that Beijing wants …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: Super Micro cautions that its financial control weaknesses, if not fixed, could hurt its ability to report results “in a timely and accurate manner” — Super Micro Computer Inc. cautioned that weaknesses in its controls related to financial disclosures could … | Financial Times: |
NPCI, which runs India's digital payments network UPI, has started making its infrastructure available to banks to deliver short-term loans to small businesses — Infrastructure will let banks deliver short-term loans more easily but encouraging take-up could prove difficult.
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| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Intel says its funding deal with the US loosens its requirements under the CHIPS Act, including removing the need to meet certain project milestones — The company no longer needs to meet certain project milestones or adhere to some workforce policies, among other conditions| The Information: |
Sources: Meta Superintelligence Labs' leaders have discussed using Google or OpenAI's models to power Meta AI and other AI features in Meta's social media apps — Meta Platforms' plans to improve the artificial intelligence features in its apps could lead the company to partner with Google or OpenAI, two of its biggest AI rivals.
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| Andreessen Horowitz: |
Top 100 AI consumer apps: Gemini ranks #2 behind ChatGPT on mobile with ~50% of its MAUs, with Grok at #4; on the web, Gemini has ~12% of ChatGPT's visits — 5th edition — This is the fifth edition of our Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps which reflects two and a half years of data on how everyday AI usage is evolving.
More: News.ng and eWeek
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Taco Bell, which deployed voice AI-powered ordering at 500+ drive-through locations, is now reconsidering the tech after viral videos of glitches and pranks — More artificial intelligence isn't always better, the chain is realizing, as it considers when and how bots should be deployed
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