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💬 Apple considers OpenAI and Anthropic for Siri
💥 Cloudflare debuts "Pay per Crawl", a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl
🧠 Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs
🦾 Amazon's robot workforce now exceeds one million
⚖️ Apple fails to dismiss US government antitrust lawsuit
🏛️ US Senate removes controversial 'AI moratorium' from budget bill
🎁 + 13 other news you might like
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| 💬 Apple considers OpenAI and Anthropic for Siri LINK
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- Apple is reportedly in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic to explore replacing Siri's current backend with a version of either Claude or ChatGPT models.
- The company asked both firms to develop special LLM versions that can run directly on Apple's own secure Private Cloud Compute infrastructure for user privacy.
- This potential shift comes as Apple's internal AI team is said to struggle with poor morale, making it difficult to deliver major improvements to its technology.
| 💥 Cloudflare debuts "Pay per Crawl", a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl LINK
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- Cloudflare's new Pay per Crawl marketplace experiment lets website owners charge AI companies a set rate for every single crawl of their content.
- In a major policy shift, new domains set up with Cloudflare will now automatically block all AI crawlers by default to give owners control.
- New data reveals OpenAI's crawler scraped websites 17,000 times for every one referral, showing a huge imbalance compared to Google's search crawler activity.
| 🧠 Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs LINK
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- Meta announced its new Meta Superintelligence Labs, staffed by poaching top AI researchers from key rivals including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
- The initiative brings Meta's FAIR research group and other teams under one umbrella, focusing on developing next-generation AI models and personal superintelligence.
- In response, OpenAI is recalibrating employee compensation, with its research chief accusing Meta of using pressure tactics like "exploding" bonuses to lure staff.
| 🦾 Amazon's robot workforce now exceeds one million LINK
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- The company has deployed its one millionth robot across its fulfillment centers, bringing its automated workforce closer in number to its 1.5 million human employees.
- A new AI system called DeepFleet now functions like a traffic controller for robots, improving their travel efficiency by 10 percent using internal data and SageMaker.
- The growing robot fleet includes a variety of specialized machines like the bipedal robot Digit and Sparrow, a robotic arm that picks individual items from totes.
| ⚖️ Apple fails to dismiss US government antitrust lawsuit LINK
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- A US judge rejected Apple's motion to dismiss the Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit, clearing the way for a trial that will examine its core businesses.
- The lawsuit alleges the company created technical roadblocks to block rivals' smartwatches, prevent "super apps," and limit access to its digital wallet and messaging.
- Even as Apple adds features like RCS, the DOJ may seek regulations modeled on the EU DMA to force more options and open up its NFC reader.
| 🏛️ US Senate removes controversial 'AI moratorium' from budget bill LINK
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- The US Senate voted 99-1 to remove a provision that would have blocked states from setting their own AI regulation for the next ten years.
- Silicon Valley executives supported the "AI moratorium" to prevent an unworkable patchwork of state regulation that they argued could stifle AI innovation.
- Bipartisan opposition arose from senators who warned the ban would harm consumers and let powerful AI companies operate with very little government oversight.
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Other news & articles you might like
- China's Huawei open-sources AI models as it seeks adoption across the global AI market LINK
- Senior Vision Pro engineer allegedly took a 'massive volume' of secret plans to Snap LINK
- xAI raises $10B in debt and equity LINK
- DOJ raids 29 'laptop farms' in operation against North Korean IT worker scheme LINK
- Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman to expand beyond grammar and dominate AI work tools LINK
- Google issues company-wide AI coding guidance to software engineers LINK
- Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band LINK
- Musk's X appoints 'king of virality' in bid to draw in younger users LINK
- Netflix teams up with NASA to boost its live TV offering LINK
- Robinhood gives out tokens of OpenAI and SpaceX in Europe. Stock hits record LINK
- Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi LINK
- Drug cartel hacked FBI official's phone to track and kill informants, report says LINK
- Meta, TikTok can't toss wrongful death suit from mom of "subway surfing" teen LINK
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Trending research and tools
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OpenFLOW: a tool for creating beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams that runs in your browser, works offline, and saves all data locally. LINK
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OpenFile: a free, self-hostable continuation of the IRS Direct File program that lets people file their taxes. LINK
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Small Language Models and the Future of Agentic AI: this paper suggests that smaller, more efficient language models are better for building AI agents that can take action to complete tasks. LINK
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Pluto: an enhanced version of the Lua programming language that adds modern features while remaining highly compatible with existing Lua code and tools. LINK
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Nimtable: an open-source web interface for browsing, managing, and analyzing Apache Iceberg tables from different data catalogs. LINK
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CertMate: a system to manage SSL certificates across many different cloud and DNS providers, simplifying security for modern applications. LINK
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