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Meta restarts training its AI systems on UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” to be “even more transparent” — Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.
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LinkedIn: Markus Reinisch and Marco Pancini
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The White House plans to curb the “overuse and abuse” of the de minimis loophole used by Shein and Temu, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs — The Biden administration announced new steps on Friday to curtail what it calls the “overuse and abuse” …
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Sources: OpenAI's $150B valuation in a $6.5B funding round hinges on whether the company can upend its corporate structure and remove a profit cap for investors — OpenAI's new financing round is expected to come in the form of convertible notes, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo and Uber plan to expand their two-year partnership in Phoenix to Austin and Atlanta, where Waymo robotaxis can be hailed only on Uber's app, in early 2025 — Waymo and Uber — bitter enemies turned awkwardly polite work friends — announced they were expanding their two-year robotaxi partnership …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's “monopoly” — - Employees concluded ad tech ‘monopoly’ hurt competition — The social network eventually signed an agreement with Google| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: 23andMe will pay $30M to settle a lawsuit for failing to protect the privacy of 6.9M customers whose personal info was exposed in a 2023 data breach — 23andMe (ME.O) will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company …
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A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation — Some shareholders are threatening to sue — TuSimple, once a buzzy startup considered a leader in self-driving trucks … | Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts DataGemma models that use real world data from Google-created Data Commons to reduce hallucinations in queries revolving around statistical data — Google is expanding its AI model family while addressing some of the biggest issues in the domain.
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| Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: |
Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X and Starlink after withdrawing ~$3.3M from the accounts to pay for fines imposed by the Supreme Court — - Transfer ends Starlink's banking freeze in the country — But social-media platform X remains banned by judicial order
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| Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias — Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.
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Apple plans to allow alt app stores and browser engines on iPads in the EU with iPadOS 18 on September 16, after the EU added iPadOS to the DMA in April 2024 — It was a matter of time, but Apple is going to allow third-party app stores on the iPad starting next week, on September 16.
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Trump says he has “absolutely no intention” of selling his Trump Media stock when the lockup period expires; DJT initially popped 25%+, then closed up about 12% — Shares of Trump Media shot up Friday, minutes after majority owner Donald Trump said he has no plans to sell his stake.
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United Airlines plans to start testing Starlink internet service in early 2025, with the first passenger flights likely equipped with free Wi-Fi later in 2025 — Airlines see satellites providing faster, more consistent connections — Elon Musk may soon provide the Wi-Fi on your United flight.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI's o1 models aren't a straightforward upgrade to GPT-4o, as they introduce some major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning” — OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …
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LinkedIn: Murat Cakir, Matt Kroll, and Greg Yeutter
Forums: Hacker News, r/Professors, r/ChatGPTPro, r/slatestarcodex, and r/singularity
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the European Commission is poised to conclude X does not fall under its Digital Markets Act, after a probe found X's impact on EU markets is too small — - X to avoid Digital Markets Act's list of dos and don'ts — Platform still faces a tough time from EU over disinformation
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