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💥 OpenAI and Microsoft risk open war
📱 Social media is now the top news source in the US
🤖 AI bots are breaking open libraries, archives, and museums
🛡️ OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
⚠️ Meta AI warns your chats can be public
🎁 + 10 other news you might like
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| 💥 OpenAI and Microsoft risk open war LINK
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- OpenAI is considering accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior, potentially seeking federal regulatory review, to change terms of their strategic partnership agreement.
- Microsoft reportedly demands a larger equity stake in OpenAI's new public-benefit corporation, complicating the startup's for-profit conversion and fundraising efforts.
- OpenAI wants to protect IP from its Windsurf acquisition from Microsoft and also aims to renegotiate Azure's exclusive rights for selling its technology.
| 📱 Social media is now the top news source in the US LINK
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- Social media and video networks are now the primary news source in the U.S., with 54 percent of individuals getting news from platforms like Facebook and YouTube.
- Globally, TikTok is the fastest-growing network for news, with 17 percent of people now using it, cementing social media's role as a key news source.
- The platform X has also seen significant news user growth in the U.S. and U.K., particularly tripling its right-leaning audience stateside since Elon Musk's takeover.
| 🤖 AI bots are breaking open libraries, archives, and museums LINK
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- AI bots are overwhelming servers at many libraries, archives, and museums with massive traffic, sometimes knocking valuable public online collections entirely offline for users.
- Cultural organizations frequently first realize AI bots are scraping them when a sudden flood of automated requests causes system failures, blocking access for human visitors.
- Numerous AI scraping bots reportedly ignore the `robots.txt` protocol, a standard web file sites use to instruct automated tools against accessing their content.
| 🛡️ OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract LINK
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- OpenAI secured a $200 million, one-year U.S. Defense Department contract to develop prototype frontier AI capabilities addressing critical national security challenges in warfighting and enterprise domains.
- This agreement is the first with OpenAI listed on the Defense Department's website and specifies work will occur via OpenAI Public Sector LLC in the National Capital Region.
- While significant, this $200 million defense award represents a small fraction of OpenAI's reported annualized sales, which currently exceed $10 billion.
| ⚠️ Meta AI warns your chats can be public LINK
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- Meta AI now displays a specific pop-up message to warn users that prompts they choose to post will become public and visible to everyone.
- Previously, some users shared sensitive personal information to the public Discovery feed, likely unaware their Meta AI chats could be seen by anyone.
- Publishing chats requires users to tap "Share" then "Post to feed"; this action now triggers the clearer warning about making content public.
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Other news & articles you might like
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- Meta and Oakleys smart glasses are coming this week LINK
- Nvidia CEO criticizes Anthropic CEO over AI comments LINK
- Microsoft rolls out 'Sovereign Public Cloud' amid EU pressure on data localisation LINK
- Reddit will help advertisers turn 'positive' posts into ads LINK
- Apple used iPhone parts to make a custom movie camera for 'F1' LINK
- Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools LINK
- Hackers switch to targeting U.S. insurance companies LINK
- Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing LINK
- Intel set for huge factory job cuts as it makes a major policy shift LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Canine: a deployment platform for Kubernetes, like Heroku, that simplifies application deployment. LINK
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Fossify: a group of privacy-focused, open-source, ad-free mobile apps, forked from SimpleMobileTools to continue bringing simple and private tech to everyone. LINK
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Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons: this paper presents a new large language model that can handle very long texts more efficiently because it does not use traditional attention mechanisms. LINK
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The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking: it challenges the idea that we commonly fool ourselves into thinking we are thinking more deeply than we actually are. LINK
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Extracting memorized pieces of books from open-weight language models: this paper demonstrates that open-weight language models can store and reproduce exact text segments from books they were trained on. LINK
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Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone: this paper introduces Voyager, a system for displaying large, city-scale 3D scenes in real time on mobile phones using 3D Gaussian splatting. LINK
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