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Jake Evans / ABC:
Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law  —  In short:  —  Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
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Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, noting that Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated image of her “endorsing” him prompted her to reveal her plans  —  Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight.  If you haven't already, now is a great time to do your research …
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Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams  —  The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API-serving platforms Le Chat and Le Platforme “soon”  —  French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in December 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE  —  MariaDB's short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sergey Brin says he's working at Google “pretty much every day” and that AI algorithmic improvements are “even outpacing the increased compute” put into models  —  Google co-founder and ex-Alphabet president Sergey Brin said he's back working at Google “pretty much every day” …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
On Day 2 of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp executive testifying as a government witness said Google held publishers “hostage”  —  Google's tool that lets publishers sell ad space on their websites is ubiquitous, but that's largely a testament …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWrite's 70B-parameter AI model, says he “got ahead” of himself but doesn't explain why his model underperformed  —  Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI, also known as its signature AI assistant writing product HyperWrite …
Brianna Sacks / Washington Post:
An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Meta says it is “investigating this issue”  —  The Post has collected more than 40 examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during at least 20 wildfires since June.
Hans Peter Brondmo / Wired:
The former CEO of Everyday Robots, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a robot body  —  As the head of Alphabet's AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things.  For one, robots can't come soon enough.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Qualifyze, which makes audit management and compliance software for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $54M Series B, bringing its total funding to $84M  —  In the world of pharmaceuticals, companies aim to operate under GMP guidelines — a set of production and manufacturing measures to assure standards for medicinal products.
More: Qualifyze
Joe Mayes / Bloomberg:
AWS plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its cloud business, expecting to support up to 14,000 jobs and contribute £14B to the UK GDP between 2024 and 2028  —  - Move follows similar investments announced in Spain, Germany  — Chancellor Reeves says decision is ‘start of economic revival’

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New York Times:
Memos: Will Lewis has stepped down as WaPo publisher and CEO; former Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio, who joined WaPo last June as CFO, is acting publisher and CEO

C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

Hadas Gold / CNN:
Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT

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Justine Calma / The Verge:
Google plans to buy carbon removal credits from direct air capture provider Holocene for $100 per ton, far below current prices, for delivery by the early 2030s

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Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI:
Waymo: its cars in Phoenix and SF had 48% fewer crashes/mile than humans and 73% fewer injury-causing ones; humans rear-ended Waymos in 16 of the 23 worst ones
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing
Emma Roth / The Verge:
A total of 42 state and territory AGs call on Congress to pass legislation requiring warning labels on social networks that warn of social media's risks to kids
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4
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