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After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles — Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …
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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Sources: Tim Cook will personally donate $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural committee in the spirit of unity; Apple is not expected to donate — The company is not expected to give. — Cook, with a consistent presence in Washington, has made it clear over the years that he believes …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it expects to spend $80B in FY 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle AI workloads, with 50%+ of the spending in the US — Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads, the company said in a Friday blog post.
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LinkedIn: Pankaj Kedia and Rich Miller
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/AMD_Stock, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, to some YouTube videos later this year on Samsung's 2025 TVs and soundbars — Samsung and Google are ready to push a new standard, Eclipsa Audio. … Over the years, Samsung notably hasn't supported Dolby Vision HDR …
More: Samsung Newsroom, Forbes, 9to5Google, TechRadar, FlatpanelsHD, TweakTown, and Advanced Television
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology over its alleged links to China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon — The U.S. government has sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a China government-backed hacking group, tracked as Flax Typhoon.
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| Max Woolf / Max Woolf's Blog: |
In a test, asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet to “write better code” iteratively improved the code's features and speed, but more aggressive prompt engineering added bugs — In November 2023, after OpenAI added the ability for ChatGPT to generate images from DALL-E 3 within the ChatGPT web interface …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. Bluesky: @minimaxir and @kentindell. Mastodon: @serge@babka.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, r/nottheonion, r/ClaudeAI, and r/programming
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok's general manager for North America's ads team, is leaving the company at the end of February, as the company faces a ban in the US — Sameer Singh will remain at the company until the end of February — Sameer Singh, TikTok's North America head of ad sales … | Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
An unredacted lawsuit from Utah's AG claims TikTok has long known that TikTok Live promoted sexual content streams to minors and facilitated money laundering — - Unredacted lawsuit claims TikTok knew about teen safety issues — Lawsuit also alleges company facilitated money laundering| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Getty Images is exploring a merger with rival Shutterstock; Getty jumped 13% for a $983M market value, Shutterstock rose 7.9% for a $1.1B market value — - Getty weighing how to structure combo with stock-photo rival … Getty has been weighing how to structure a combination …
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| Aroon Deep / The Hindu: |
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, aimed at enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments — The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, lay out the tentative terms of enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which was passed in Parliament in 2023
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
An in-depth look at Elon Musk's criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control — The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
More: MarketWatch. Bluesky: @tsmog, @babysquirrels, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @spbeaudet, @dangillmor, @marciano, @ariannaciccone, @socalmom, and @jasonkoebler
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A — Swave Photonics, a holographic display company, has raised $28.27 million in funding as it prepares components for AI-powered smartglasses and heads-up displays.
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