Brazil's data regulator suspends the validity of Meta's new privacy policy for the use of personal data to train its generative AI systems in the country — Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has decided to suspend with…
Snapchat adds new features, including letting Snapchat+ subscribers design a personalized house on Snap Map and send Snaps that last less than .5 seconds — Snapchat is introducing new ways for users to personalize their accounts, the…
Meta shares its research on Meta 3D Gen, a system that creates high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute — Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, introduced Meta 3D Gen today, a new AI system that…
For ~10 years, millions of macOS and iOS apps using CocoaPods were vulnerable to a serious flaw in the dependency manager, which was patched in October 2023 — Apps that used code libraries hosted on CocoaPods were vulnerable for about 10…
Tubi launches in the UK with over 20K movies and TV episodes, featuring content from distributors including Disney, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures — The ad-supported streamer now has more than 80 million monthly active users. —…
An overview of “looksmaxxing” apps that rate teen boys' faces and are criticized for worsening the youth mental health crisis; paid app UMAX has 7M+ downloads — After Dillon Latham's girlfriend dumped him during their junior year of high…
Google says it will require advertisers to disclose election ads that use digitally altered content that depicts real or realistic-looking people or events — Google (GOOGL.O) said on Monday it would make it mandatory for advertisers to…
Qualys researchers say an OpenSSH flaw can let attackers remotely compromise servers and allow unauthenticated RCE as root; over 14M servers may be vulnerable — Researchers from Qualys say regreSSHion allows attackers to take over servers…
Meta changes its “Made with AI” label to “AI info”, to indicate images were not necessarily created with AI but that AI editing tools may have been used — After Meta started tagging photos with a “Made with AI” label in May, photographers…
Singapore emerges as a favorite destination for Chinese AI startups due to less stringent AI regulations and access to Nvidia's latest chips amid the US' curbs — - AI founders lured by access to foreign capital, technologies — Young AI…
Tokyo-based SmartHR, which offers cloud human resources and labor management software, raised a $140M Series E led by KKR and Teachers' Venture Growth — SmartHR, a cloud-based human resources and labor management software startup, said on…
A look at Meta's Oversight Board which now hopes it can help social networks comply with EU's DSA; sources: it's tried for years to attract clients beyond Meta — Once hailed as a model for internet governance, Meta's Oversight Board has…
Kuo: Apple plans to mass produce new AirPods with camera modules by 2026, which will include an IR camera like the iPhone's Face ID receiver, for use in AR/VR — According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is targeting to…
Sources: Apple is working on bringing Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro, rejiggers its Vision Pro retail demos, and starts developing its major OSes for 2025 — Apple's strategy to make its devices last longer will mean AI and software…
An interview with Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, on open-source AI, his Web3 company Near, “user-owned AI”, and more — Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of…
A look at the disastrous launch of Stable Diffusion 3, which struggles to generate correct human anatomy, and concerns over the tool's new and different license — Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable…
Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition review: great native app performance but emulated apps can be more battery intensive, and AI features feel gimmicky — Microsoft and Qualcomm finally deliver the hardware Windows on Arm needed. … The new…
Hugging Face unveils Open LLM Leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot — Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability. —…
A look at the possible impact of SCOTUS overturning Chevron deference and curbing federal agencies' power on net neutrality, Big Tech regulation, and more — Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the…
Amazon hires the CEO and co-founders of Adept, which builds AI agents that automate enterprise workflows, to join its AGI team and will use some of Adept's tech — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e…
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic — WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is “freeware” that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use “social contract” — Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used…
Sources: Apple may use electrically induced adhesive debonding to make batteries easier to replace, starting with one iPhone 16 model, to comply with EU rules — Under pressure from regulators in Europe and elsewhere, Apple in recent years…
Baidu unveils an upgraded version of its AI model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, and says its chatbot Ernie Bot has reached 300M users since its launch — Chinese search engine giant Baidu(9888.HK) on Friday unveiled an upgraded version of its…
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures — When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world,…
Sources: Hebbia, which is developing a generative AI document search tool, raised a nearly $100M Series B led by a16z at a valuation between $700M and $800M — Hebbia, a startup using generative AI to search large documents and return…
Nokia agrees to acquire Infinera, which provides networking hardware and software to mobile phone operators and others, for $2.3B in a cash-and-stock deal — - Cash-and-stock transaction values Infinera at 37% premium — Acquisition is…
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says there will not be “just one AI”, disparages closed-source AI competitors as trying to “create God”, and more — Riffing on what he sees ahead for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an…
Google says Gemma 2 will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI from July as a new 9B-parameter model and the prior 27B-parameter model — Google says Gemma 2, its open lightweight model series, will be available to…
Character.AI lets users talk to AI characters over calls in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, and says 3M+ users made 20M+ calls during testing — a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to…