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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids — By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules — Meta, the social media giant, agreed to change the way children interact with its apps. That could be trouble if its competitors don't abide by the same rules.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta is seeking to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing — Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans? — For just under a year from 2022 to 2023 …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google” — Under its splashy agreement with state AGs, Meta gets to flaunt the high road, while dragging its competitors.| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce — Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion …
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| METR: |
METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face — Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach — In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet … | Politico: |
Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies — The Trump administration is weighing a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, eight people familiar with discussions told POLITICO …
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| Nvidia Newsroom: |
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% to $59.7B — - Revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year ago — Data Center revenue of $89.0 billion, up 117% from a year ago
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” — OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday … | Bloomberg: |
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps, including memory-use limits, citing “significant hardware supply constraints” due to the AI boom — Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom.
More: Android Developers Blog, Thurrott, and Game Informer
| Google: |
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more — Omni now delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, first and last frame interpolation …
More: Google AI for Developers, NPowerUser, The Decoder, The Rundown AI, and Google
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group — Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed …
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21 — Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX's (SPCX.O) AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company …
More: Capital Brief, Digit, and Joe.My.God.
| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers — Anthropic is giving Claude its own browser. — As the company announced on Wednesday, Claude on the desktop (Mac, Windows, and Linux) …
More: Claude, Gizmodo, MacStories, The Decoder, and Digital Trends
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic's tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl — X will really mark the spot for NFL content. — The social-media outlet is launching “NFL Gametime,” a new project that offers … | Google DeepMind: |
Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP — Building trust in proprietary model benchmarks using cryptographically secure environments — Imagine a student is set to take a high-stakes exam.
More: Blockchain.News and RuntimeWire
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units — Plaud Inc., a startup that makes note-taking devices, announced a pair of wireless, 4G-connected earbuds that lets users record conversations …
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| Reuters: |
Japan's Kioxia and Sandisk plan to spend $31B+ in Japan through 2032 to drive chip tech and expand production capacity, including an $11.3B Kitakami plant — Japan's Kioxia (285A.T) and U.S.-based Sandisk (SNDK.O) said on Thursday they planned to invest more than $31 billion in Japan through 2032 …
More: Bloomberg, Barron's Online, and Taipei Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January — After a short stint at OpenAI, Zoph will become a vice president of research at Google, which has recently lost a string of high-profile researchers
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| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
Sources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others — The Trump administration has internally circulated a draft executive order in recent weeks, calling for the creation … | Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI — In his ruling, which applies to only certain images, a federal judge asked the Supreme Court to revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes …
More: TechRadar, CNBC, Salesforce, Tech Times, Barchart.com, Quartz, diginomica, Barron's Online, and Salesforce Ben
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks — Earlier this year, we ran a pilot giving external researchers access to aggregate, real-world Claude usage data.
More: The Rundown AI, alphaXiv, and RuntimeWire
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a “Google Maps for the underground”, raised a $26M Series A — Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company … | Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
Source: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy — Tech company Nvidia will start an employee-funded political action committee, a source familiar with the plans told Reuters, as the company seeks to step up its efforts to influence U.S. policy.
More: Business Post
| Thom Waite / Dazed: |
Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including interactive systems that let in-game player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media — The pressure on Grand Theft Auto VI to deliver the holy grail of gaming is enormous - we talk to Rockstar's epic team of creative talents to uncover its secrets
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks — Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20%+ and CrowdStrike up 15%+, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools — CrowdStrike and Okta shares surged on Thursday after earnings showed that artificial intelligence adoption is pushing customers to spend more on cybersecurity tools.Sponsor Posts
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