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Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, noting that Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated image of her “endorsing” him prompted her to reveal her plans — Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. If you haven't already, now is a great time to do your research …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE — MariaDB's short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management.
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI aims to release Strawberry, its reasoning-focused AI, within two weeks as a model that users can pick in ChatGPT; the model isn't yet multimodal — Strawberry, OpenAI's reasoning-focused artificial intelligence, is coming sooner than we thought.
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Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option because it is not required to do so under privacy law — In short: — Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWrite's 70B-parameter AI model, says he “got ahead” of himself but doesn't explain why the model underperformed — Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI, also known as its signature AI assistant writing product HyperWrite … | Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI: |
Waymo: its cars in Phoenix and SF had 48% fewer crashes/mile than humans and 73% fewer injury-causing ones; humans rear-ended Waymos in 16 of the 23 worst ones — It's Autonomy Week! This is the second of five articles exploring the state of the self-driving industry.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A total of 42 state and territory AGs call on Congress to pass legislation requiring warning labels on social networks that warn of social media's risks to kids — A coalition of 42 state and territory attorneys general is calling on Congress to pass regulation requiring warning labels on social media platforms.| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Maryland-based Forterra, which develops autonomous driving tech for military and commercial vehicles, raised a $75M Series B — Forterra, a supplier of autonomous driving technology for military and commercial vehicles, today announced that it has closed a $75 million Series B investment.| Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
In a memo to commemorate Alibaba's 25th anniversary, Jack Ma said the competition will make the company stronger, urging trust “in the power of market forces” — “Only with competition can we become stronger and allow the industry to remain healthy,” Ma said
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Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing — Microsoft boosts error correction on Quantinuum machine, parters with Atom Computing. — On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series …
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google plans to buy carbon removal credits from direct air capture provider Holocene for $100 per ton, far below current prices, for delivery by the early 2030s — Google just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around …
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| Wendy Davis / MediaPost: |
A federal judge blocks Utah from enforcing the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, set to take effect on October 1, saying the law likely violates the 1A — A federal judge has blocked Utah from enforcing a new law that would have restricted social media platforms' ability to serve content to minors under 18.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out a Google One “Lite” plan in India that offers 30GB storage for Rs. 59, or ~$0.70, per month — Google has started rolling out a “Lite” plan for Google One that has a small storage bump, and an even smaller cost. — A Google One subscription grants …
More: The Hindu and PhoneArena
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming September 20 — At any Apple event, new AirPods are never a given. The earbuds have been around nearly as long as the Apple Watch …
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