OpenAI says DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to images with C2PA metadata but acknowledges the metadata can “easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally”
OpenAI's image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards …
Meta proposes standards to identify AI content that its industry peers could use, and plans to label AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
but Leave Plenty Undetected Scrippsnews.com : Meta to add ‘AI-generated’ label to images made by third-party tools Johanna Romero / PhoneArena : Meta will begin to label AI-generated content across Fa...
Source: Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise; the phones are in early development and not set for production in 2024 or 2025
Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise like a clamshell, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.
Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source AI model MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions
Apple has released a new open-source AI model, called “MGIE,” that can edit images based on natural language instructions.
Disney begins emailing Disney+ subscribers about TOS changes that will make sharing accounts harder, days after sending out similar notices to Hulu subscribers
Today, Disney Plus began sending out emails informing subscribers about new changes to its terms of service that will …
Fox, ESPN, and WBD announce a new joint venture to launch a streaming sports service in the US in the fall of 2024; each entity will own a third of the JV
The service will be available to ESPN+, Hulu and Max subscribers.
Apple Vision Pro teardown: 50 Vision Pro pixels fit into a single iPhone 15 Pro pixel, the display is not technically 4K, has a ~100° field of view, and more
After the whirlwind of team activity that was our initial Vision Pro teardown, we've been digging much, much deeper into those dual displays …
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.9B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $37.6B, a $1.9B net income, 150M MAUs, and first full-year operating profit of $1.1B
Ride-hailing app beats forecasts and boasts of ‘inflection point’ — Uber has reported its first full year of operating profits …
Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$36.7B, net income down 69% YoY to ~$2B, Taobao and Tmall revenue up 2% YoY to ~$18B, and approves a $25B share buyback
- The move may appeal to some investors as growth plateaus — Alibaba is grappling with market and internal uncertainty
Apple releases a beta version of visionOS 1.1, which brings enterprise device management to the Vision Pro
It's been hard to avoid news about the Apple Vision Pro, the company's entry into the virtual reality market, in recent days. It was officially released on Friday to much fanfare, but how will it far...
Ransomware payments in 2023 hit a record $1.1B, up from $567M in 2022 and $983M in 2021, after a major escalation of the frequency, scope, and volume of attacks
The Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report — Coming soon — In 2023, ransomware actors intensified their operations …
Google updates Google Maps for Android to overlay the weather and air quality index when browsing the map layer, a feature the iOS app has had for some time
Like the iOS app, Google Maps for Android now overlays the weather and AQI when you're browsing the map layer.
Smaug-72B, a Qwen-72B-based open-source LLM released by Abacus AI, tops the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard and outperforms GPT-3.5 on several benchmarks
A new open-source language model has claimed the throne of the best in the world, according to the latest rankings from Hugging Face …
Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center says Iran's cyber operations in Israel show how Iran could target the 2024 US elections, including fake news websites
Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers — Iran's anti-Israel cyber operations are providing a window …
Inside Zuzalu, a co-living experiment organized by Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro in 2023, as the techno-utopian “Network State” concept inspires more projects
Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in? — I.
Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 30% YoY to $749.9M, bookings up 25% YoY to a record $1.1B, DAUs up 22% YoY to 71.5M, and $2.8B in 2023 revenue; RBLX jumps 13%+
- Roblox reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year that beat consensus estimates on the top and bottom lines.
Some top cybersecurity experts are retreating from a CISA program that enlists outside professionals, citing growing conservative backlash and management gripes
Scrutiny from conservative activists and management gripes are straining the government's plan to enlist elite security pros in the fight against malicious hackers.
In 2023, Alibaba cut ~20K staff, ending the year with 219,260 employees, after cutting roughly the same number in 2022, and bought back $9.5B of its stock
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
MicroStrategy bought 31,775 bitcoin in Q4 2023 for an average cost of $39,411, taking its total holdings to 190K bitcoin acquired for a total cost of $5.93B
Nelson Wang / Unchained :
Sources: OpenAI, DeepMind, and others seek clarity over how the UK's AI Safety Institute is testing their AI models, timeframe, and the feedback process
OpenAI and DeepMind want Britain's new AI safety institute to speed up evaluations of latest models — The world's biggest artificial …
Trade group CISPE, representing Amazon and 26 EU cloud providers, is working with Microsoft to try to resolve EU antitrust concerns over its licensing practices
Microsoft (MSFT.O) is in talks with CISPE in an attempt to resolve its European Union antitrust complaint about the U.S. software …
A German court sides with US-based R2 Semiconductor over Intel in a patent infringement suit; a source says the ruling could lead to a ban on HP and Dell sales
US chipmaker plans to appeal against decision that could lead to ban on sale of certain HP and Dell products
An in-depth look at Common Crawl, the 9.5PB web crawl archive dating back to 2008 run by a small nonprofit, its role in generative AI, its dataset, and more
Common Crawl's Impact on Generative AI — Common Crawl's mission: Enabling others to work like Google — Common Crawl's data: Machine scale analysis Mastodon: @tootbaack@mozilla.social . X: @emilybe...
A look at OpenAI's “Democratic Inputs to AI” grant program, which awarded 10 teams $100K each to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI systems
Billy Perrigo / TIME : X: @time , @lopezunwired , and @billyperrigo LinkedIn: Teddy Lee and Laura MacCleery X: @time : The company wants to align its AI to “human values.” Is that even possible? http...
Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware
Twitter's natural heir is finally open to the public — and it has some big ideas for social networking Shane Huntley / The Keyword : Buying Spying: How the commercial surveillance industry works and w...
Douyin CEO Kelly Zhang steps down; a source says ByteDance will not seek to appoint a successor and Zhang will shift her focus to the video-editing app CapCut
Bloomberg :
New Hampshire's AG says fake robocalls using deepfaked audio of Biden to discourage voters numbered 5K to 25K and are linked to Lingo Telecom and a Texas firm
The Netherlands says Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the Dutch Ministry of Defence's internal network in 2023, using a Fortinet vulnerability
An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on popular, dormant domains, and claims to have human editors
Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles. X: @knibbs , @emilybell , @knibbs , @katiedrumm , @dannygroner , and @faris See a...
Snap reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.38B est., DAUs up 10% YoY to 414M, a net loss of $248M, up from $288M in Q4 2023; SNAP drops 30%+
mean audio/video clips, I'm assuming. Does gen Z want that? idk. X: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : $SNAP drops -30% after meeting expectations on revenue ($1.36B vs $1.38B) but forecasting lower tha...
A US federal judge rules Apple won't have to face AliveCor's lawsuit alleging Apple's Watch copied heart-monitoring technology from the medical device company
Rachel Graf / Bloomberg :
A look at Meta's plan to build interoperability into WhatsApp and Messenger under the DMA; Meta plans to make third-party chats opt-in and in a separate inbox
Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers. … X: @matrixdotorg : We continue to closely follow the Digital Markets Act and other initiatives pushing for interoperabilit...
YouTube says Shorts averages 70B+ daily views and the number of channels uploading Shorts rose 50% YoY
Mozilla announces Monitor Plus, a $14/month US service that scans 190+ data broker sites and automatically submits requests for removal of the user's data
London-based Colossyan, which uses generative AI and virtual avatars to create corporate training videos, raised a $22M Series A led by Lakestar
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
ID management company Entrust acquires Onfido, a London-based provider of automated identity verification services, sources say for “well above” $400M
Entrust has entered into exclusive discussions to acquire Onfido. Alex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com : AI ID specialist Onfido in talks to be bought by Entrust Robert Scammell / UKTN : London ID scale...
Consensys announces MetaMask integration with Robinhood, letting MetaMask users purchase USDC, ether, bitcoin, and other crypto via Robinhood's order engine
Source: X's new Trust and Safety moderation team in Austin with 100 content moderators was initially envisioned as a 500-person team in the Bay Area
and if you're like me, your first thought is probably... is this for real? I spoke current and former X staffers familiar with T&S, and Twitter's former T&S council to get some answers. https://fortun...
Sources: Shanghai plans to accelerate approvals for foreign firms wanting to send their local data offshore, a major relaxation of China's stringent data rules
College admissions essay reviewers say that certain words, such as “tapestry”, appear more frequently in submissions now and can be red flags that AI was used
The Public Interest Registry will give domain registries free access to tools from the Internet Watch Foundation to crack down on the spread of CSAM
Sam Sabin / Axios :
Zededa, a maker of edge infrastructure orchestration tools, raised $72M led by Smith Point Capital; a source says the round values the company around $400M
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg :
Sources: Shein approached the CAC and China Securities Regulatory Commission to get their blessing for a US IPO, despite not formally requiring their approval
Financial Times :
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