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Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group — Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler — This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.
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Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024 — Brussels probing possible failure by messaging platform to provide accurate data under new regulations
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Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 2019 — Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale … | Alex Isenstadt / Politico: |
In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again — The Meta CEO earlier this week asserted that Biden administration tried to “pressure” the company to downplay content about Covid.
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The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and evaluate their capabilities and risks — The US government announced agreements with leading artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic to help test and evaluate their upcoming technologies for safety.
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Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M — Magic, an AI startup developing models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July — - Meta said earlier on Thursday adoption of its open source Llama models has also grown sharply.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have 12GB of DRAM, instead of 8GB, and a cooling system with vapor chambers and graphite sheets — Just a day after a noted leaker on Chinese microblogging site Weibo suggested the iPhone 17 lineup in 2025 could see an upgrade …
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Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and “nudify” websites have used sign-in infrastructure from Google, Apple, Discord, X, Patreon, or Line for months — Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found.| New York Times: |
Michael Lacey, co-founder of the classified ad site Backpage, gets five years in prison and a $3M fine for money laundering; two other executives get 10 years — Michael Lacey, 76, co-founded the website that became known for its ads for prostitution. He was convicted on a money laundering charge … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which raised $80M+, has ousted its sibling co-founders, including CEO James Eberhard, after losing tens of millions — The startup is in the hole for millions — Fluid Truck, a startup that was founded to disrupt the commercial vehicle rental industry … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to join the funding round that would value OpenAI at over $100B — - Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
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Documents and sources detail OpenSea's chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and tax probes across the globe, as the US SEC and FTC make inquiries — The rise and fall of NFTs made and unmade OpenSea — the largest marketplace for the crypto asset.| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024 — Meta's (META.O) Llama artificial intelligence models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and AT&T … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bungie fired top executive Chris Barrett in March 2024 after female employees accused him of inappropriate behavior; Barrett joined Bungie in 1999 — Veteran developer who worked on hit video game franchises Halo and Destiny was directing the next major title, Marathon.
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