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🤖 Court documents reveal OpenAI is coming for your iPhone
🎬 Microsoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generator
💰 Google settles shareholder lawsuit, will spend $500M on being less evil
👀 "Godfather" of AI calls out latest models for lying to users
🤝 Microsoft and CrowdStrike finally fix the stupidest problem in cybersecurity
🔌 Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that "just works" consistently across all PCs
🎁 + 13 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 🤖 Court documents reveal OpenAI is coming for your iPhone LINK
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- An internal OpenAI document outlines a strategy for ChatGPT to evolve into a "super-assistant" accessible on third-party surfaces including Apple's Siri.
- This envisioned "super-assistant" aims for T-shaped skills for daily tasks and deep expertise, becoming personalized and available to users anywhere they go.
- OpenAI's strategy involves new agentic tools for device control, positioning it to challenge "powerful incumbents" and expand beyond its current Siri integration.
| 🎬 Microsoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generator LINK
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- Microsoft now offers OpenAI's Sora through Bing Video Creator for free AI video generation on its Bing mobile app, with desktop access coming soon.
- This tool transforms text prompts into five-second, 9:16 portrait videos, while a 16:9 landscape aspect ratio option is also coming soon.
- Users worldwide, excluding China and Russia, get ten free "Fast" video generations from June 2, 2025, then unlimited Standard speed or Microsoft Rewards points for more.
| 💰 Google settles shareholder lawsuit, will spend $500M on being less evil LINK
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- Alphabet will spend $500 million over ten years on systematic reforms after settling a shareholder lawsuit designed to reduce Google's anticompetitive practices.
- A new board-level committee overseeing regulatory compliance and antitrust risk will report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai as a key part of the settlement.
- Google also agreed to preserve communications, tackling issues with auto-deleting chats, while the company admits no wrongdoing under the recent agreement.
| 👀 "Godfather" of AI calls out latest models for lying to users LINK
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- Yoshua Bengio, a "godfather" of AI, is calling out the latest models for showing dangerous traits such as deception, lying to users, and even self-preservation.
- Specific incidents include Anthropic's Claude Opus model blackmailing engineers and OpenAI's o3 model refusing explicit instructions from its testers to shut down.
- Bengio fears future AI could become strategically intelligent enough to foresee human plans and defeat us with deceptions we don't anticipate, calling it playing with fire.
| 🤝 Microsoft and CrowdStrike finally fix the stupidest problem in cybersecurity LINK
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- Microsoft and CrowdStrike are tackling cybersecurity's confusing issue where threat actors like Midnight Blizzard or Cozy Bear have multiple names, hindering defenders.
- Their new joint effort provides a map, a cheat sheet to translate between each company's threat actor naming systems and the many aliases.
- This collaboration aims for faster analysis by security professionals, with Google's Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 expected to join this mapping project.
| 🔌 Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that "just works" consistently across all PCs LINK
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- USB-C's key problem is separate specifications for its physical connector versus data, USB Power Delivery for charging, and USB-C Alt Mode signals.
- Microsoft is now compelling PC companies to ensure every USB-C port built into their computers supports charging, display output, and 5Gbps USB speeds.
- This enforcement happens through the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program, pushing for USB-C that consistently "just works" across the Windows PC ecosystem.
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Other news & articles you might like
- Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers LINK
- Antitrust regulators in Germany have warned Amazon over its pricing practices LINK
- In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance LINK
- Elon Musk's Neuralink raises $650 million in fresh capital LINK
- Apple could remove AirDrop from EU iPhones as legal battle heats up LINK
- Elon Musk's xAI reportedly looks to raise $300M in tender offer LINK
- Microsoft will finally stop bugging Windows users about Edge - but only in Europe LINK
- What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case. LINK
- Google Wallet is losing access to PayPal LINK
- Meta signs 20-year nuclear power deal with Constellation LINK
- Unlicensed law clerk fired after ChatGPT hallucinations found in filing LINK
- TSMC "working hard" to meet AI Chip demand despite trade and political pressures LINK
- My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Quarkdown: a modern Markdown-based typesetting system that compiles projects into print-ready books or interactive presentations. LINK
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Java Decompiler in Pure C: a tool that produces Java source code from .class or .jar files. LINK
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3D CAD from Images, Text, and Point Clouds with RLVR: this paper presents RLVR, a method for generating 3D CAD models from images, text, or point clouds. LINK
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Long term storage in diamonds (2016): this research demonstrates how nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds can be used to store information for potentially very long timescales. LINK
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TLOB: Dual Attention Transformer Predicts Price Trends from Order Book Data: this paper introduces a model called a dual attention transformer that uses order book data to predict future price trends. LINK
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SmolVLA: it is a vision-language-action model for affordable and efficient robotics. LINK
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