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Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data (venturebeat.com)
18 days ago Microsoft

Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
18 days ago AI Apple

Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (dailydot.com)
18 days ago AI

A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” (statescoop.com)
18 days ago chatbot Ban New York

A Nuclear Reactor Backed By Bill Gates Gets Federal Approval To Start Building (hardware.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Bill Gates

A study found OpenAI's ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (www.nbcnews.com)
18 days ago

Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago IPO 4Q

Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Pentagon

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI

Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion (yro.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Google chatbot

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (apnews.com)
18 days ago Twitter Elon Musk

OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago (www.engadget.com)
18 days ago

Sources: the WH's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states through rate deals, without penalties for tech firms refusing to comply (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago

Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores (developers.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Google

New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments (www.engadget.com)
18 days ago Mexico Zuckerberg

Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago France Startup Quantum

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago Google Amazon Microsoft

Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2B for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by the end of the first half of 2026 (fortune.com)
18 days ago

Bitwarden adds support for passkey login on Windows 11 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago

Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater”, said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving “dictator-style praise to Trump” (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago Trump

Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC (games.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Sony

Mail2Shell zero-click attack lets hackers hijack FreeScout mail servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago

Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, vs. $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program (www.cnbc.com)
18 days ago AI

Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet Age-Verification Mandates (tech.slashdot.org)
18 days ago

Windows 10 KB5075039 update fixes broken Recovery Environment (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago Robot

Fake LastPass support email threads try to steal vault passwords (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago

Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization, which will have an ultra-flat structure, to help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago AI

Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking (tech.slashdot.org)
18 days ago

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