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The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply; iOS, the App Store, and Safari are already DMA designated — The move means Apple has six months to make sure its tablet ecosystem complies with a raft of preemptive measures under the EU's flagship Digital Markets Act.
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Sources: Tesla partners with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions to clear a key hurdle to launch Full-Self Driving in China, after Elon Musk's visit — - Tesla to partner with tech giant Baidu on mapping, navigation — Elon Musk met with Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country's data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared — Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated … | Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
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Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback — Apple's top rivals are revamping their strategies for smartphones and headsets in a sign they smell an opportunity.
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| Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: |
Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam — The Manor Lords video game released this weekend by a small independent studio in Poland has sold more than a million copies …
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| Scott Nover / Fast Company: |
AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram — Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence. Soon enough, Meta AI will be everywhere …
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US lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill — Combination of coordinated efforts by its critics and missteps by the company led to the law forcing a sale or ban of the popular app
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Privacy nonprofit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT gave his incorrect birth date — OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb …
More: noyb, Politico, Forbes, Euractiv, Silicon Republic, Infosecurity, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, Neowin, Cointelegraph, AI News, and Reuters
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles — Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season — Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic … | Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources: Meta's Oversight Board told some staff last week that their jobs were at risk, likely adding to its challenges after criticism for moving too slowly — The Oversight Board, which Meta started in 2019 as an experiment in content moderation, has faced criticism for moving too slowly and cautiously| New York Times: |
PitchBook: investors have poured $330B into ~26,000 AI and ML startups over the past three years, up 66% on funding to 20,350 AI companies from 2018 to 2020 — The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.
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