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Adobe says it is in the early stages of developing a way to let Premiere Pro users tap AI models from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate video — Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday said it is in the early stages of allowing the use of third-party generative artificial intelligence tools …
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LinkedIn: Ryan Sagare, James Ratliff, Kyle Gesuelli, and Todd Burke
| Artificial Intelligence Index: |
Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more — Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives …
More: Artifical Intelligence Index, PYMNTS.com, The Register, Stanford HAI, San Francisco Chronicle, The Decoder, EnterpriseAI, Stanford HAI, IEEE Spectrum, SiliconANGLE, and New York Times
| Financial Times: |
The US awards Samsung up to $6.4B in CHIPS Act funding and says the company plans to make 2nm chips at its Taylor, Texas plant by 2026, two years ahead of TSMC — South Korean group set to outdo rival TSMC with cutting-edge 2nm chip production in US by 2026 as part of $40bn investment
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI opens a Tokyo office, releases a Japanese language GPT-4 model, and taps former President of AWS Japan Tadao Nagasaki to woo enterprises in the country — OpenAI named the former president of Amazon Web Services's Japan arm to spearhead its push to woo enterprise clients in the world's fourth-largest economy.
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts” — Misleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage from other conflicts have been viewed millions of times.
More: ISD. X: @decodingfoxnews, @ghonchehazad, @merlynthomas, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @arsenkeklikoglu, @shayan86, @talhagin, @eliothiggins, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @vabvox, @shayan86, @shayan86, and @shayan86
| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Impressions of Waymo's robotaxis after several rides: amazing tech that quickly feels “normal”, but it failed to understand a traffic cop's hand signals — An curved arrow pointing right. — Unlike other hyped-up tech, self-driving taxis look like they could be the real thing.
Threads: @emetelka, @joeypadge3, @nick_poitier, @motorcityadam, @pkafka, and @nemeseri
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
CISA said locks from RealPage's Chirp Systems, reportedly on ~50K US dwellings, can be unlocked via a hack; Chirp was told in 2021 but is quiet about the flaw — The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials …
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, @lpar@infosec.exchange, @kurtseifried@infosec.exchange, and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
LinkedIn: Brian Krebs and Art Cooper
| Bloomberg: |
As Microsoft begins its most ambitious security reboot in two decades, critics question if the company has sufficient incentive to make deep and lasting changes — Company has embarked on biggest security reboot in two decades, but critics question whether it has wherewithal to complete the job.| New York Times: |
Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice” — Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
More: Forbes, Crowdfund Insider, and The Korea Herald
X: @sen_stackhouse, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @kateconger, @baekdal, @mikeisaac, and @baxiabhishek. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: a16z closed $7.2B for its newest set of funds, with allocations for AI infrastructure, AI apps, its “American Dynamism” strategy, and more — - About half of the targeted capital was aimed for its growth fund. — Instead of dedicated seed or early-stage funds …
More: Sandhill Report, The Information, and San Francisco Business Times. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Framework CEO Nirav Patel on ongoing firmware and software issues with its repairable laptops, the promised fixes, Compal and Insyde, and more — New features, security updates, and Linux support are all on a long to-do list. — Since Framework showed off its first prototypes … | Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
Sources detail how China-based ByteDance and US TikTok operations remain intertwined: some US staff effectively report to ByteDance, share user data, and more — In January, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced an intense grilling by skeptical U.S. lawmakers about his company's ties to Beijing and its alleged risk to national security.
More: The Daily Caller. Mastodon: @netblocks@mastodon.social. X: @alexmacgregor__, @gordongchang, and @brendancarrfcc
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