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OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others make voluntary AI governance pledges to the White House, including cybersecurity investment and watermarking systems — The White House is bringing in AI's top seven companies Friday to make a series of voluntary promises to protect users.
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| Lindsey Choo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: average time spend on Threads' app declined to four mins, down from 19 — Data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options such as a chronological feed
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit removes the moderators of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close protesting Reddit's API changes, and takes charge of the subreddit — Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform's API pricing changes.
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| Rich Stanton / PC Gamer: |
Troy Hunt: the sensitive info of almost 4,000 Roblox Developer Conference attendees from 2017 to 2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak this week — This may cost the company a few Robux. — The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach …
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| Reuters: |
OpenAI's head of trust and safety Dave Willner leaves the company, citing the job's pressures on his family life and saying he'd be available for advisory work — OpenAI's head of trust and safety Dave Willner is leaving the company, he said in a LinkedIn post on Friday …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in recent months, Sergey Brin increased his Google visits to three to four days a week, working with researchers on Gemini, an AI model to rival GPT-4 — Co-founder is working alongside AI researchers at tech giant's headquarters, aiding efforts to build powerful Gemini system| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Telegram launches Stories, initially for its Premium subscribers, letting users control who can see their stories and how long they last before disappearing — You can display them forever or make them disappear at various times up to 48 hours. — Telegram's new Stories feature is here as promised … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
The New York MTA says it has used AI-powered surveillance software at seven subway stations in May to track fare evaders, plans to expand to ~12 more this year — An MTA spokesperson said the software doesn't flag fare evaders to New York police but declined to comment on whether that policy could change.
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A look at Samsung's $17B and Texas Instruments' $30B chip fabs in Texas, as the state becomes a US chipmaking hub with six projects expected to create 8K+ jobs — WATCH NOW — How Texas became the center of U.S. chipmaking — On a 1,200-acre plot of land in a small town 30 miles north of Austin … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Amazon settles with the US DOJ and the FTC for $25M over not complying with parents' requests to delete their kids' Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data — The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million fine … | Erin Woo / The Information: |
Letter: the US SEC subpoenaed Bolt and sent a notice to former CEO Ryan Breslow in 2022 over their past misleading statements to current and potential investors — The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed e-commerce software startup Bolt and sent a notice to co-founder …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh for the $1B+ they allegedly misappropriated for “pet projects” before FTX's bankruptcy — FTX Trading Ltd on Thursday sued founder Sam Bankman-Fried and other former executives at the cryptocurrency exchange …
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