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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
OpenAI unveils Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video, as a research product for some creators and security experts — OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step. — We already know that OpenAI's chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school.
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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
The US and its allies disrupt access by Russia-backed hacking group APT28, or Fancy Bear, to 1,000+ home and small business routers used for criminal purposes — The US and its allies have disrupted access by a Russian-state sponsored hacking organization to “well over a thousand home …
More: US Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, The Record, Dark Reading, Security Boulevard, and The Register. Forums: r/craftofintelligence
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU because of a DMA requirement that forces Apple to allow alternative browser engines — iOS 17.4 offers a number of changes for the App Store and iPhone in the European Union. This includes things like third-party app marketplaces …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox-exclusive games to PS5 and Switch, the future of Xbox, next-gen hardware, regulation, and more — Microsoft has been gradually moving Xbox away from the idea of a single piece of hardware in recent years, with ambitions …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Ukrainian Vyacheslav Penchukov pleads guilty in the US for his role in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups, which stole millions from victims for over a decade — Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov pleaded guilty to two counts, each of which carries a possible 20-year prison term.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has expanded testing of a Copilot-like tool for Xcode and is exploring AI features for productivity apps and a Spotlight search that uses LLMs — - Company is working on several generative AI-based features — New tool would help developers create code more quickly
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| Davey Winder / Forbes: |
Google announces the AI Cyber Defense Initiative, which includes launching new AI security training and open sourcing Magika, a tool used to protect Gmail users — Google has confirmed a new security scheme which, it says, will help “secure, empower and advance our collective digital future” using AI.
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LinkedIn: Phil Venables and Kent Walker
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Sources: spyware vendor Variston is closing after Google “burned” its name publicly in 2022; source: a disgruntled staffer sent its malicious code to Google — The Barcelona-based startup's malware has been used to target iPhones, Android devices and PCs| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google launches Gemini 1.5 for developers and enterprise users, with a context window of up to 1M tokens, and says Gemini 1.5 Pro is on par with Gemini Ultra — Barely two months after launching Gemini, the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry, the company is already announcing its successor.
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LinkedIn: Samuel Otero Schmidt, Ajit Monteiro, Ranbir Mazumdar, Will Grannis, Julia Wiesinger, Paige Bailey, Wenming Ye, Elaine Stephens, Adrien Laurent, and Dex Hunter-Torricke
Forums: r/mlscaling, r/OpenAI, r/Bard, and r/singularity
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More: Google Cloud Blog, Google for Developers Blog, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Neowin, Firebase Blog, and Google DeepMind
LinkedIn: Julian Geiger, Salvatore Scellato, Clément Farabet, Gaurav Hind, and Neama Dadkhahnikoo. Forums: Slashdot
| TechCrunch: |
PitchBook: Q4 2023 saw only 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020 and consistent with the “low-level activity seen throughout 2023” — The global venture capital market is enduring a long period of limited exits. Startups are staying private longer …
More: PitchBook, Coinspeaker, CNBC, ISP Today, Cryptonews, and CCN.com
X: @dappstore_, @jacqmelinek, @dappstore_, and @azharthegreat
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Meta releases V-JEPA, an AI model that learns by predicting missing or masked parts of unlabeled video to develop a conceptual understanding of the world — Meta's AI researchers have released a new model that's trained in a similar way as today's large language models, but instead of learning from words …
More: Meta, Analytics India Magazine, Meta, and The Decoder
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
The FTC proposes new rules that would make companies liable if they “know or have reason to know” their AI tech is being used to harmfully impersonate consumers — The US Federal Trade Commission moved to put new rules into place around impersonation, citing the rising threat … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Toast plans to lay off ~550 employees, or ~10% of its workforce, to promote “operating expense efficiency” and will incur about $50M in costs such as severance — Toast Inc., a restaurant-focused software company, will cut about 550 employees, adding to the spate … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In a letter, 28 civil rights organizations, including noyb, urge the EDPB to reject Meta's approach of asking EU users to pay or consent to be tracked for ads — A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wikimedia Europe … | Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue up 51% YoY to $953.8M, vs. $826M est., net income of $273M, its first profit in two years, vs. a loss of $557M YoY; COIN jumps 10%+ — Revenue surged 51% to $953.8 million, topping the $826 million average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
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