EU diplomats: an EU Council vote to amend a draft law that would have forced WhatsApp and Signal to scan images and links for CSAM was removed from the agenda
Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence, a US startup “with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence”
Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
CDK Global, which offers SaaS tools to 15K+ car dealerships in North America, shut down most of its systems to probe “a cyber incident”, and has restored some
Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut …
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which beats its flagship model Claude 3 Opus and outperforms GPT-4o in some tests, available for free on the web and iOS
OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But it's more an incremental step than a monumental leap forward.
AMD says hackers accessed limited information related to assembling certain AMD products on a third-party vendor website and expects no material business impact
- Investigation showed limited information accessed by intruder — Chipmaker said the data was accessed on a third-party site
A history of Lambda School: burning through $120M, why its income share agreements failed, how one developer-turned-journalist revealed the fraud, and more
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: … Austen co-founded Lambda School, one of the largest educational startups of all time. Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe . X: @carnage4life ...
Ilya Sutskever discloses his plans for Safe Superintelligence, says “we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety’”, and more
Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence X: Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : Ashlee Vance with the scoop on where @ilyasut has been this whole time: working on a new startup called Safe Sup...
A look at the many lawsuits against RealPage, the rent-fixing software company accused of artificially inflating the real estate rental prices across the US
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles. Mastodon: @carnage4life@m...
Sources: Apple has held talks with Baidu, Alibaba, Baichuan AI, and others to help offer Apple Intelligence in China, as ChatGPT isn't available in the country
ChatGPT isn't available in China, prompting Apple to seek local partner for its artificial-intelligence services
Tests show Instagram continues to recommend sexual videos to accounts with ages listed as 13; Snapchat and TikTok did not produce the same sexualized content
Findings align with undisclosed internal research at Meta, which has pledged an ‘age-appropriate’ experience for teens …
Anthropic debuts Artifacts, which lets users see and interact with the results from Claude requests, signaling its long-term vision for companies to use Claude
The AI arms race continues apace: Anthropic is launching its newest model, called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it says can equal …
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77
A prolific researcher who led the Computation Structures Group in the Computer Science … Mastodon: Andrej Bauer / @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz : I was saddened today to learn that Arvind Mithral passed...
LA-based GrayMatter Robotics, which develops AI-powered robotic cells for the manufacturing industry, raised a $45M Series B led by Wellington Management
Manufacturing robotics startup GrayMatter Robotics Inc. is looking to kickstart a wave of factory automation after closing on a new $45 million funding round today.
TikTok launches an in-app experience to celebrate Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, giving prizes to users who complete 11 weeks of tasks, following Instagram in April
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
Meta rolls out the ability for users to restrict their Instagram Lives to Close Friends, with the option for three other users to join the broadcast
Kris Holt / Engadget :
Daydream, which is building a search engine for personalized shopping using GenAI, ML, and computer vision, raised a $50M seed co-led by Forerunner and Index
For retailers, e-commerce is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year …
Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites
Kenya ends a year-long investigation into Worldcoin with “no further police action” and says the startup must register its business, acquire licenses, and more
‘No further police action’ Mayowa Adebajo / Coinspeaker : Worldcoin Expands to Ecuador, Scores Big Win in Kenya, as WLD Price Jumps
At Augmented World Expo, Palmer Luckey says he's building a new headset “driven by military requirements” that will also be used for “non-military stuff”
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
HeyGen, which uses AI to let users create realistic-looking avatars, raised $60M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, taking its total funding to $74M
HeyGen lets anyone make a photorealistic avatar that can speak in their own voice and translate their words into a range of languages.
PayPal hires one of Walmart's top tech executives Srini Venkatesan as its CTO, effective June 24, replacing Archie Deskus, who will leave the company in July
Hannah Lang / Reuters :
Snap agrees to a $15M settlement with California after a three-year probe into employees' allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment
Lara Korte / Politico :
An investigation details how Chinese gangs, Chinese officials, and Myanmar's Junta made Myanmar's Kokang region a key hub in the global online scam industry
Washington Post : X: @tmclaughlin3 , @shibanimahtani , @washingtonpost , @silvermanjacob , @zachabuza , and @shibanimahtani . LinkedIn: Shibani Mahtani X: Timothy McLaughlin / @tmclaughlin3 : The Mya...
Tencent removes hit game Dungeon & Fighter from select Android app stores after its contracts expired; local media says the app stores include Huawei and Oppo
A look at Nvidia's 591,078% rise since its IPO in 1999; long-time investors in Nvidia have had to stomach three annual collapses of 50% or more in the stock
Pornhub parent Aylo tells local news outlets in Kentucky and Indiana that local IP addresses are set to be geo-blocked in mid-July due to age verification laws
Michael McGrady Jr / AVN Industry News :
Paris-based C12, which is developing a carbon nanotube-based quantum computer, raised €18M led by Varsity, EIC, and Verve, after raising a ~€9M seed in 2021
Lucy Adams / Tech.eu :
Accel and Dealroom: out of 221 generative AI startups in Europe and Israel, 27% were created in London, 13% in Tel Aviv, 12% in Berlin, and 10% in Paris
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Gynger, which lets companies “finance, pay, and manage” their tech purchases, raised a $20M Series A led by PayPal Ventures, bringing its total raised to $31.7M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Meta Oversight Board co-chair Helle-Thorning Schmidt on AI deepfakes, Meta rejecting the board's decision on former Cambodian PM Hun Sen, and more
Murad Ahmed / Financial Times : X: @muradahmed X: Murad Ahmed / @muradahmed : Before her appearance at @thenextweb I spoke to Meta Oversight Board chair @HelleThorning_S about why Meta didn't back a ...
China's top-valued AI startup, Moonshot AI, recently debuted a role-play chat app and music maker app in the US; Chinese rival MiniMax also expanded to the US
Software vendors like Salesforce are getting left behind in the AI boom, as most AI spending at this point is going toward hardware or cloud infrastructure
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
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