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Sources: Apple will get an observer role on OpenAI's board, with Phil Schiller chosen for the position, as part of their partnership announced last month — CDK Says ‘Substantially All’ Car Dealerships Restored After Hack — Northern Data May Be Testing Limits of AI Frenzy With Unit IPO
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Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app — The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool after a user showed that it was clearly copying Apple's weather app.
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Responding to criticism, Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen says Make Design is “powered by off-the-shelf models and a bespoke design system that we commissioned” — Figma says it didn't train the generative AI models it used and blames a ‘bespoke design system.’| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Meta shares its research on Meta 3D Gen, a system that creates high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute — Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, introduced Meta 3D Gen today, a new AI system that creates high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute.
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Blockchain platform Polkadot faces criticism from users after spending $36M+ on marketing and outreach in H1 2024, nearly half of its total spend of $87M — The blockchain spent $87 million in the first six months this year, with marketing activities accounting for the majority of expenses.| Cynthia Brumfield / CSO: |
SCOTUS' Chevron ruling could weaken federal cybersecurity regulations, as FCC data breach reporting requirements and other rules are likely to be challenged — The ruling could weaken almost all US federal cybersecurity regulations, including SEC incident reporting, FCC data breach reporting, and CISA cyber incident reporting rules.| Financial Times: |
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts — Tech giant's ambition of reaching ‘net zero’ by 2030 under threat from power demands of artificial intelligence systems
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Sources: Magic, a US startup developing AI models for coding tasks, is in talks to raise $200M+ at a $1.5B valuation — Magic, a U.S. startup developing artificial-intelligence models to write software, is in talks to raise over $200 million in a funding round valuing it at $1.5 billion … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat adds new features, including letting Snapchat+ subscribers design a personalized house on Snap Map and send Snaps that last less than 0.5 seconds — Snapchat is introducing new ways for users to personalize their accounts, the company announced on Tuesday.| Chris Kornelis / Wall Street Journal: |
Bruce Bastian, who co-created the popular word processing software WordPerfect and was an LGBTQ activist, died on June 16 at age 76 — While his company was producing the world's dominant word-processing software, he came out as gay to his wife, sons and Mormon community| Eric Geller / Wired: |
A look at a US State Department program to train diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, and other tech issues, allowing them to spot threats and advance US policy — The US State Department is training diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications, and other technology issues, allowing them to advance US policy abroad.| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
How an underground network of Chinese sellers is bypassing US export controls through supply-chain blind spots to smuggle Nvidia's advanced AI chips into China — An informal market circumvents U.S. export controls through supply-chain blind spots—and in one case, a student's luggage
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
For ~10 years, millions of macOS and iOS apps using CocoaPods were vulnerable to a serious flaw in the dependency manager, which was patched in October 2023 — Apps that used code libraries hosted on CocoaPods were vulnerable for about 10 years. — Vulnerabilities that went undetected …
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| Nicholas Fearn / Financial Times: |
How AI is helping investors and wealth managers simplify the due diligence process and streamline day-to-day tasks, as experts stress the need for human insight — Platforms such as ChatGPT can do comprehensive research for low cost but strategies may be found wanting without critical human expert oversight| Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal: |
As teachers embrace new AI grading tools, saying the programs let them give students faster feedback, critics say the tools can be glitchy or grade too harshly — Programs can give students feedback faster, but some critics say AI shouldn't be used to gradeSponsor Posts
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