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Adobe says it is in the early stages of developing a way to let Premiere Pro users tap AI models from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate video — Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday said it is in the early stages of allowing the use of third-party generative artificial intelligence tools …
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LinkedIn: James Ratliff, Kyle Gesuelli, Ryan Sagare, and Todd Burke
| Artificial Intelligence Index: |
Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more — Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives …
More: Artifical Intelligence Index, PYMNTS.com, The Register, Stanford HAI, The Decoder, EnterpriseAI, Stanford HAI, San Francisco Chronicle, IEEE Spectrum, SiliconANGLE, and New York Times
| Financial Times: |
The US awards Samsung up to $6.4B in CHIPS Act funding and says the company plans to make 2nm chips at its Taylor, Texas plant by 2026, two years ahead of TSMC — South Korean group set to outdo rival TSMC with cutting-edge 2nm chip production in US by 2026 as part of $40bn investment
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| Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios: |
Meta plans to launch a new education product for Quest that will let teachers access education apps for students ages 13+ and manage multiple headsets at once — - In time for the fall semester, it'll make available a suite of visually engrossing education apps that teachers can use with students ages 13+.
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LinkedIn: Gustavo Madrigal, M.A. Ed., Carl Boel, Juan Bossicard, Michael Lin, and Michel Buchner
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts” — Misleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage from other conflicts have been viewed millions of times.
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| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Impressions of Waymo's robotaxis after several rides: amazing tech that quickly feels “normal”, but it failed to understand a traffic cop's hand signals — An curved arrow pointing right. — Unlike other hyped-up tech, self-driving taxis look like they could be the real thing.
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Forums: r/waymo and r/SelfDrivingCars
| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments grew 7.8% YoY to 289.4M in Q1 2024; iPhone fell 9.6% YoY, more than all top brands, Xiaomi grew 33.8% YoY, and Samsung retook first — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker , global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% year over year to 289.4 million units in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24).
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
How scammers, often from Nigeria, are using sextortion to target teenage boys on social media in the US, leading to at least 20 suicides over an 18-month period — One word from a stranger on social media was all it took. “Hey,” she said. — Jordan DeMay read the Instagram message at 10:19 p.m. on a Thursday night in March 2022.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
CISA said locks from RealPage's Chirp Systems, reportedly on ~50K US dwellings, can be unlocked via a hack; Chirp was told in 2021 but is quiet about the flaw — The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials …
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LinkedIn: Dirk Anderson, Brian Krebs, and Art Cooper
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI opens a Tokyo office, releases a Japanese language GPT-4 model, and taps former President of AWS Japan Tadao Nagasaki to woo enterprises in the country — OpenAI named the former president of Amazon Web Services's Japan arm to spearhead its push to woo enterprise clients in the world's fourth-largest economy.| Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
Sources detail how China-based ByteDance and US TikTok operations remain intertwined: some US staff effectively report to ByteDance, share user data, and more — In January, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced an intense grilling by skeptical U.S. lawmakers about his company's ties to Beijing and its alleged risk to national security.
More: The Information and The Daily Caller
Mastodon: @netblocks@mastodon.social. X: @drnealdunnfl2, @brendancarrfcc, @alexmacgregor__, and @gordongchang
| New York Times: |
Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice” — Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
More: PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Social Media Today, Crowdfund Insider, and The Korea Herald
X: @sen_stackhouse, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @kateconger, @baekdal, @mikeisaac, and @baxiabhishek. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware's licensing conditions, following complaints from EU business users and a trade group — U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is being asked by EU antitrust regulators about changes to newly acquired cloud computing company …
More: Benzinga and Constellation Research
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