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The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks — With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields — Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right? — The debate over whether AI …
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| Jeff Horwitz / Reuters: |
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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| Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: |
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.
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| Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: |
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression — We're used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination?| Phil Hoad / The Guardian: |
An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style — When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs.
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
El Salvador has split its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now — El Salvador has transferred its 6,274 Bitcoin into 14 new wallet addresses as part of a security measure to protect against the threat of quantum attacks.
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How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens — In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked …
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| Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: |
AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 — - Aurasell is emerging from stealth with $30 million in seed funding. — The one-year-old AI startup wants to disrupt legacy sales software.| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more — She's spent nearly all of her working life atop the dating-app business, and believes artificial intelligence could be the matchmaker we all need| Wall Street Journal: |
Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI — With growing fears of an AI bubble, Beijing is charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of artificial superintelligence| 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:| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State — Balaji Srinivasan wants to design a new kind of nation state, and he's making a troubled megaproject a testbed for his ideas.
LinkedIn: Anders Melin and Ryan Weeks
| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually — South Korea's Krafton faces a tough fight to wring revenues from price-sensitive players — The South Korean games developer …
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