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Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored — An curved arrow pointing right. — In February, when this happened before, Google shelved the faulty AI product behind the results.
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies” — Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
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| Washington Post: |
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman — The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says that users' deleted photos that resurfaced after installing iOS 17.5 weren't synced to iCloud Photos and could have persisted after restoring backups — Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to address a rare problem where deleted photos would reappear on a user's device after installing iOS 17.5.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001 — ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Music's “100 Best Albums” list, based on votes from about 250 employees, artists, and industry executives, is eclectic, unpredictable, and controversial — Why did a trillion-dollar company make a music list that would make people lose their minds?
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Similarweb: Truth Social's average number of US monthly visits was just over 4M from May 2023 to April 2024, down 39%+ from the prior 12-month period — Nearly two-and-a-half years after its launch, Truth Social is struggling to hang onto its small U.S. user base, according to new data … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Atari buys the Intellivision brand and the rights to 200+ Intellivision Entertainment games, and says the deal “ends the longest running console war in history” — For fans of old-school games, it's kind of like Coke acquiring Pepsi: Atari, which produced one of the first hit home game consoles …
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Dell's stock rose 4.3% to close at $160.18 after reaching a record high on May 24 amid a rally in companies working on generative AI; DELL is up 114.17% in 2024 — Shares of Dell Technologies (DELL.N) hit a record high on Friday amid a rally in companies working on generative artificial … | Pete Brown / Columbia Journalism Review: |
An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI companies and the questions they raise regarding long-term costs, the selection process, and more — In the past few weeks, News Corp, the Financial Times and Dotdash Meredith became the latest news organizations to strike licensing deals …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
A look at the challenges facing AWS' new CEO Matt Garman as the cloud unit battles the perception that it's falling behind Microsoft and Google in AI rollouts — In May 2023, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was asked by an attendee at the annual shareholder meeting how the company was innovating in generative artificial intelligence.| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft's Bing, Copilot, and Copilot in Windows services are back online worldwide after an outage that began around 3 AM ET on May 23 and lasted 24+ hours — After over a 24-hour outage, Microsoft's Bing, Copilot, and Copilot in Windows services are back online worldwide, with no information released as to what caused the problem.
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