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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals — Alphabet Inc.'s Google doesn't have to sell off its advertising exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals …
More: Reuters, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal
X: @vidushi_law, @hedgeyetechlaw, and @danielahanley
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They're the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work …
More: ITPro, The Verge, Claude, Startup.eu, The Neuron, TechSpot, Implicator.ai, Quartz, Artificial Analysis, Simon Willison's Weblog, Trending Topics, Ace of Spades HQ, Cyber Security News, TheSequence, PCWorld, Constellation Research, The Deep View, The New Stack, VentureBeat, and Bloomberg
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More: Anthropic, CSO, Quartz, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, Neowin, and MarkTechPost
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LinkedIn: Cat de Jong, Jonathan Pelosi, Iain Mulholland, Eleanor Dorfman, and Jonathan Jager-Hyman. Bluesky: @timfduffy.com
| Wired: |
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon”, but will give access to “its most advanced cyber capabilities” only to testers and partners — The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
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Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/technology, r/accelerate, and r/BetterOffline
| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer.
More: Marcus on AI, Don't Worry About the Vase, and The Decoder
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The FBI is investigating Nexus, a new ID theft service on the dark web claiming to sell digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada — A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses …
More: Tom's Hardware, 9to5Mac, Metro.co.uk, Protos, CyberInsider, Joe.My.God., and Dexerto
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Forums: Hacker News, r/news, and r/privacy
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed — OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data …
More: OpenAI, Shelly Palmer, Neowin, Health API Guy, Unite.AI, and PYMNTS
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| Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Coming of Userless Agents — The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident is an early example of an AI system that has “gone rogue.”
More: TechRadar. X: @deanwball, @thezvi, @hamandcheese, @deanwball, and @jachiam0. Forums: r/singularity
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — “This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get.” — Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling …
More: Bloomberg and Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December — The half-inch thin laptop is joined by a new, much larger Swift Air 16 — both with Intel Wildcat Lake.
More: Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, and Phandroid
| Tyler Graham / CNET: |
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxis — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed …
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| Washington Post: |
Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S. adults turn to chatbots for personal or emotional discussions, including for entertainment or social advice, a new survey found.| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is facing a new round of lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect spent days talking to ChatGPT — New lawsuits add to list of cases in which the chatbot maker faces questions about the safety of its products
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, The Guardian, Bloomberg Law, and NPR
| Matthew Haag / New York Times: |
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more — A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
More: Politico, The Verge, UPI, Gothamist, ABC7, and New York Focus
Bluesky: @charleswlogan and @rweingarten
Forums: r/nyc and r/newyorkcity
| Kai Williams / Understanding AI: |
A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome — A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics. — Today's Robot Week article is sponsored by 80,000 Hours …
More: Financial Times. X: @chi_t_williams and @binarybits. LinkedIn: Arvind Narayanan. Bluesky: @frankpasquale. Forums: Hacker News
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Valencia-based iPronics raised $125M co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street, with participation from Nvidia, to develop optical circuit switch tech — Valencia, Spain-based startup iPronics said Tuesday that it has raised $125 million in venture capital with participation from Nvidia …
More: The Register, iPronics, and Trending Topics
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M for shares from employees — Founded just last year, the startup already has 650 employees and is expanding its forward-deployed engineering teams around the world| World Labs: |
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D — World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Information, The Decoder, and Implicator.ai
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, continue to show Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both globally, following President Trump's EO — Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
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Threads: @carnage4life, @chriswelch, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
Forums: r/technology, r/applemaps, and r/apple
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, above $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management — Palo Alto Networks surpassed fiscal fourth-quarter estimates as mounting artificial intelligence risks boost demand for its cybersecurity tools.
More: CNBC, Quartz, Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Motley Fool, Constellation Research, Cyber Security News, FinTech Global, SecurityWeek, and Bloomberg
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources say Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, and planned outside funding never came — As company struggles with profitability, Snap CEO is doubling down on a hardware play that has made some investors wary
X: @_iainmartin
| Reuters: |
The EU General Court dismisses Opera's challenge against the European Commission's decision to exempt Microsoft Edge from DMA gatekeeper regulations in 2024 — Norwegian browser maker Opera (OPRA.O) on Wednesday lost its court challenge against EU antitrust regulators' decision to exempt Microsoft's …
More: Thurrott
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Conveo, which uses AI to conduct customer interviews in 15 languages and analyzes transcripts for market insights, raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global — Conveo, which helps big brands understand market trends, raised a $50 million Series A led by DST Global, Conveo CEO Dieter De Mesmaeker tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Tech.eu and Tech Funding News
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo — The Dell 14S promises an aluminum build, Intel Wildcat Lake chips, and lots of battery life — for a price we don't know exactly yet.
More: Windows Central, HotHardware, Club386, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar, How-To Geek, PCMag, Wccftech, CNET, VideoCardz.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, and T3
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Photoshop, and Express, available via Slackbot prompts — Customers can now use Adobe's apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock, Lightroom …
More: 9to5Mac and The AI Economy
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 53% of US adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone and 36% say about the right amount; 70% of ages 18 to 29 report spending too much time — Between scrolling, notifications, and messages, smartphones can be hard to put down. Just over half of U.S. adults say they spend …
Bluesky: @johngramlich
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
New Jersey-based Aitan, which offers “robotic sovereignty as a service” and “edge AI weapon systems”, emerges from stealth with $41M led by Deep33 and Dell — - “Warfare has totally transformed over the past few years,” co-founder Daniel Almog told Axios.
More: CTech and RuntimeWire
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