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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, which is turned off by default, and expands its availability from ChatGPT Pro to ChatGPT Plus users
Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more  —  Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we'll need to radically change how we think and behave.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Google pauses the rollout of Google Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and UX, per a Google product manager's post on X  —  'Ask Photos isn't where it needs to be,' says a product manager for Google Photos.
Bloomberg:
Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked SUV and hitting a woman in November 2023 show FSD's limits; the NHTSA is investigating  —  The setting sun was blinding drivers on the Arizona interstate between Flagstaff and Phoenix in November 2023.
Christopher Cruz / Rolling Stone:
An interview with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki on accessibility, balancing the chaos, guardrails, base mechanics, and more, ahead of the June 5 debut  —  Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki discusses the challenges of a free roam racer and balancing the difficulty for new players
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its AI tech to generate marketing images and help pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway  —  The ‘Mad Men’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ producer is the latest Hollywood company to sign a pact with the generative AI firm.
More: Engadget
Financial Times:
Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M+ at a $5.5B+ valuation, after raising a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024  —  Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT …
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Source: ~1,000 people have left CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ who took a buyout offer, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third  —  Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration …
Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop:
A group of 260+ US legislators from all 50 states sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years  —  More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill …
Kate Payne / Associated Press:
A US federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for kids under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”  —  A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children …

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Washington Post:
Internal email: 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi told staffers Bari Weiss pulled the CECOT segment after the Trump administration refused an interview

Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
SEC filing: Netflix says it secured up to $25B in bank financing to fund its proposed $72B acquisition of WBD, maturing three years after the deal closes

More News

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
How Morgan Stanley is using its DevGen.AI tool, built in-house on OpenAI's AI models, to translate legacy code into English specs for developers to then rewrite
More: Entrepreneur.  Bluesky: @triangulator.org.  Mastodon: @timbray@cosocial.ca.  LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette and Steve Rosenbush
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:
NYSE Arca files with the US SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF tied to Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs Truth Social and is majority owned by President Trump
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm patches a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days reported by Google that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
The Trump administration plans to reorganize the Biden administration's US AI Safety Institute, set up in 2023, into the Center for AI Standards and Innovation

Earlier Picks

Blockworks:
Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Blockworks says Pump.fun has generated $700M+ in revenue since its early 2024 launch
Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv:
TikTok bans the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, in response to direct pressure from the French government
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., and approves an up to $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; viewers can interact with a notebook's generated content, like audio overviews, briefings, and FAQs
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a technique Meta and Yandex use to glean some logged-in Android users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers via web identifiers
Molly White / Citation Needed:
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok expands Manage Topics, which lets users customize how often content from the top 10 categories appears in For You, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering
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