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Meta releases Llama 2, its open-source LLM with double the context length, for free for research and commercial use, and expands its Microsoft partnership — Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have captured the public's imagination and demonstrated what those developing …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI — If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it …
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| Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces Copilot for Microsoft 365 will cost $30 per user per month for business accounts, and debuts Bing Chat Enterprise, offering improved privacy — A version of Bing Chat with corporate-level privacy is also rolling out in preview. — At the Microsoft Inspire partner event today …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
The FCC unveils the US Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity label for smart devices that will signify that devices meet NIST-set security standards — In a press briefing, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said the new label, called the US Cyber Trust Mark …
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Executives at G/O Media, which owns Gizmodo, Jezebel, and others, say the company plans to publish more AI-generated stories despite its botched first attempts — Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots. — In early July, managers at G/O media …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Rapid7: threat actors have exploited zero-day RCE flaws in Adobe ColdFusion and Citrix NetScaler; Citrix patched its flaw but Adobe issued an incomplete fix — The exploited code-execution flaws are the kind coveted by ransomware and nation-state hackers. — Organizations big and small …
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Futureverse, a combination of 11 different startups from sectors including blockchain, AI, the metaverse, and gaming, raised a $54M Series A led by 10T Holdings — The startup formed out of a merger of 11 different companies. — An unusual company straddling a range of industries …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year — Cameo, the video shoutout app that gained in popularity during the pandemic shutdowns, told employees on Tuesday that it was laying off … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
An Ada Lovelace Institute report warns that the UK's approach to AI safety lacks credibility and makes 18 recommendations for improving the government's plans — The UK government has been trying to cultivate an image of itself as an international mover-and-shaker in the nascent field …
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Critics say Saudi Arabia uses Snapchat to promote Mohammed bin Salman's image and as a tool for repression globally; sources: the country closely monitors snaps — Critics say app - partly owned by a Saudi investor - promoting image of Mohammed bin Salman while critical voices are punished| Maria Heeter / The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia is nearing an investment in cloud compute service Lambda Labs, in a deal that could total $300M, after taking a large equity stake in CoreWeave — Nvidia is known for its stranglehold over the market for the data center chips that power ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence software.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
McKinsey partners with Cohere to help enterprise clients adopt generative AI, after Deloitte partnered with Nvidia and Bain and Company teamed up with OpenAI — Consultancy giant McKinsey said it had struck a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Cohere in an effort to provide AI solutions to its enterprise clients.
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Threads' early growth decisively proved the demand for a new text-based conversation app that could fully supplant Twitter's role in shaping public conversation — One week later, engagement is down — but the prize is still there for the taking — I. — On July 5, Meta released Threads into the world.
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| Inti Landauro / Reuters: |
Spain's antitrust watchdog fines Amazon and Apple a combined €194.1M for colluding to limit the sale of Apple devices from competitors on Amazon's Spanish sites — Spain's antitrust watchdog CNMC on Tuesday said it had imposed fines worth 194 million euros ($218.2 million) in total on Amazon …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces Vector Search, which uses ML to capture the context of unstructured data like images and text, to speed up search, in preview through Azure — At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft announced a number of new AI features headed to Azure, perhaps the most notable of which is Vector Search.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
After about two and a half years as OnlyFans' CEO, Ami Gan departs to launch a new venture; Chief Strategy & Operations Officer Keily Blair takes over as CEO — After about two and a half years as CEO, Ami Gan is leaving OnlyFans. Chief strategy and operations officer Keily Blair will take over as CEO.| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Due to safety concerns like facial recognition abuse, OpenAI hasn't widely shipped GPT-4's “multimodal” capability that can respond to images and text prompts — An advanced version of ChatGPT can analyze images and is already helping the blind.
More: Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Economic Times, and KnowTechie
| Alex Isenstadt / Politico: |
A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC used an AI version of Donald Trump's voice that appeared to narrate a Truth Social post of his, in a statewide TV attack ad in Iowa — The spot illustrates the new frontiers in political advertising. — A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC uses an Artificial Intelligence version …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok debuts Elevate, a program to help rising music artists via amplification, early access to new features, and more, and signs a Warner Music licensing deal — TikTok is launching a new program that is designed to identify the next wave of rising artists in the music industry, the company announced on Tuesday.
More: The Information, Social Media Today, TikTok, Billboard, Variety, Variety, Music Ally, The Hollywood Reporter, Tubefilter, Reuters, and Bloomberg. Twitter: @tiktokcomms
| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that Instagram is not liable for copyright infringement related to embedded images on BuzzFeed News and Time — Two photographers who filed a copyright lawsuit against Instagram after their images posted to the platform appeared on BuzzFeed News …
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: ~700K TikTok accounts in Turkey were hacked before its May 2023 election via a flaw TikTok knew of in 2022; TikTok noticed “unusual activity” in April — A U.K. security agency warned TikTok about the exploited vulnerability more than a year earlier, but the company chose not to fix it.
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