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June 28, 2024, 12:05 AM

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Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI details CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4 to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers in assessing and spotting errors  —  Having humans rate a language model's outputs produced clever chatbots.  OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable.
Wired:
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so  —  AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Google says Gemma 2 will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI from July as a new 9B-parameter model and the prior 27B-parameter model  —  Google says Gemma 2, its open lightweight model series, will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI starting next month.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available with 7B and 13B parameters  —  Meta has unveiled the Meta Large Language Model (LLM) Compiler, a suite of robust, open-source models designed to optimize code and revolutionize compiler design.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google adds 110 new languages to Translate, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model, taking the total languages to 243, in its largest expansion ever  —  Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether  —  - Coinbase, which retained consultant firm History Associates Inc. to file the FOIA requests, took aim at the SEC and FDIC …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming  —  The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming so subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can stream a variety of games directly to Fire TV devices.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says there will not be “just one AI”, disparages closed-source AI competitors as trying to “create God”, and more  —  Riffing on what he sees for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Amazon folds its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into One Medical, with more affordable per-visit pricing: $49 for a video call or $29 to text a doctor  —  Amazon is folding its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into its primary care business One Medical, the company announced on Thursday.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The EFF, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and others file a brief saying the US law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional  —  New Law Subject to Strictest Scrutiny Because It Imposes Prior Restraint, Directly Restricts Free Speech, and Singles Out One Platform for Prohibition, Brief Argues
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: Hebbia, which is developing an AI-powered document search tool, raised a nearly $100M Series B led by a16z at a valuation between $700M and $800M  —  Hebbia, a startup using generative AI to search large documents and return answers, has raised a nearly $100 million series B led …
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Clay, which develops AI tools focused on sales and marketing for businesses, raised $46M led by Meritech at a $500M valuation, taking its total funding to $66M  —  Company was valued at $500 million in its latest funding round.  —  An artificial intelligence startup focused on sales …
Bloomberg:
Nokia agrees to acquire Infinera, which provides networking hardware and software to mobile phone operators and others, for $2.3B in a cash-and-stock deal  —  - Cash-and-stock transaction values Infinera at 37% premium  — Acquisition is largest for Nokia since Alcatel-Lucent in 2016

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