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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app — X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.
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| Financial Times: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it is surprised and is “seeking clarity” about X's move to automatically allow user data to train Grok — Social media company's move to automatically allow user data to train chatbot could breach European privacy rules
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US-based security vendor KnowBe4 says it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who then unsuccessfully attempted to load malware into the company's network — KnowBe4, which provides security awareness training, was fooled by stolen ID. — KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor …
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| Jorja Siemons / Bloomberg Law: |
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance — Search by Topic — The Paris Summer Olympics that begin Friday include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction — Justice Department defends new law requiring the sale or ban of the popular app — TikTok collected data about its users' views … | Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Honeywell is considering a US IPO of its majority-owned quantum computing firm Quantinuum as soon as 2025, and could seek a valuation of about $10B — - The firm has held early talks with banks on potential IPO — A listing in the US could take place as soon as next year| Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration says Apple has agreed to adopt the White House's voluntary safeguards for AI, joining OpenAI, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and others — - Guardrails aim to protect consumers, influence AI development — Apple moving to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into iPhone
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X: @secraimondo, @potus, @repdonbeyer, @aifray, @tjl, @ericgeller, and @uspto
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| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
Chinese self-driving startup WeRide files to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol WRD, reporting a loss of $268M on revenue of $55M in 2023 — Driverless technology startup WeRide Inc. filed for what could be the biggest US initial public offering by a Chinese company since ride-share company Didi Global Inc.'s disastrous 2021 listing.| Financial Times: |
A look at the race to build advanced AI robots; PitchBook: robotics startups have raised $6.5B across 552 deals in 2024 vs. $9.7B across 1,256 deals in 2023 — Google, OpenAI and Tesla race start-ups to develop AI robotic systems in effort to transform healthcare and manufacturing| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service — Web publishers say developer is swarming their sites, collecting content to train models and ignoring orders to stop
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
US unions are trying to organize staff at chip firms set to receive CHIPS Act grants; CWA is pushing to organize workers at Intel and other big chip companies — Samsung employees strike and U.S. unions gear up to organize as semiconductors enjoy growth — SEOUL—Inside the cavernous factories …
X: @scottlincicome, @jessefelder, and @landerswsj
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
The International Association of Machinists says Apple reached a three-year tentative labor agreement with retail workers at a Towson, Maryland store, a first — - Three-year deal will increase pay by an average of 10% — Union aims to build on the success; Apple declines to commentSponsor Posts
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