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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app — X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.
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| Financial Times: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it is surprised and is “seeking clarity” about X's move to automatically allow user data to train Grok — Social media company's move to automatically allow user data to train chatbot could breach European privacy rules
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| Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration says Apple has agreed to adopt the White House's voluntary safeguards for AI, joining OpenAI, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and others — - Guardrails aim to protect consumers, influence AI development — Apple moving to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into iPhone
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the race to build advanced AI robots; PitchBook: robotics startups have raised $6.5B across 552 deals in 2024 vs. $9.7B across 1,256 deals in 2023 — Google, OpenAI and Tesla race start-ups to develop AI robotic systems in effort to transform healthcare and manufacturing| Bloomberg:NEW |
Sources: Honeywell is considering a US IPO of its majority-owned quantum computing firm Quantinuum as soon as 2025, and could seek a valuation of about $10B — - The firm has held early talks with banks on potential IPO — A listing in the US could take place as soon as next year| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Kamala Harris, who began her career in the Bay Area and was involved in Biden's pro-tech actions like the CHIPS Act, sees a surge of support from tech donors — New York CNN — — With Vice President Kamala Harris the front runner to receive the Democratic Party's nomination for president …
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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
US unions are trying to organize staff at chip firms set to receive CHIPS Act grants; CWA is pushing to organize workers at Intel and other big chip companies — Samsung employees strike and U.S. unions gear up to organize as semiconductors enjoy growth — SEOUL—Inside the cavernous factories …
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| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
Chinese self-driving startup WeRide files to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol WRD, reporting a loss of $268M on revenue of $55M in 2023 — Driverless technology startup WeRide Inc. filed for what could be the biggest US initial public offering by a Chinese company since ride-share company Didi Global Inc.'s disastrous 2021 listing.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service — Web publishers say developer is swarming their sites, collecting content to train models and ignoring orders to stop
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| Bloomberg: |
How TikTok is trying to fend off a potential US ban via ad campaigns, funding creators' lawsuits, and spending $6M on lobbying in H1 2024, vs. $3.5M in H1 2023 — - Lobbying, lawsuits and ad campaign are deployed to fight law — Popular app seeks to avoid US ban over its Chinese ownership
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US-based security vendor KnowBe4 says it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who then unsuccessfully attempted to load malware into the company's network — KnowBe4, which provides security awareness training, was fooled by stolen ID. — KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor …
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
SK Hynix announces plans to invest roughly $6.8B through 2028 on a chip plant in Yongin, South Korea, including a “mini-fab” to process 300mm silicon wafers — The world's second-largest maker of memory chips, SK Hynix (000660.KS), said on Friday it had decided to invest about 9.4 trillion won …
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Chinese self-driving startup WeRide files to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol WRD, reporting a loss of $268M on revenue of $55M in 2023Find
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Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of serviceFind
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US-based security vendor KnowBe4 says it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who then unsuccessfully attempted to load malware into the company's networkFind
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A look at the race to build advanced AI robots; PitchBook: robotics startups have raised $6.5B across 552 deals in 2024 vs. $9.7B across 1,256 deals in 2023Find
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