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Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (blog.google)
10 days ago Google

British state broadcaster names ex-Google boss as new director (www.rt.com)
10 days ago U.K. Google

Reddit Takes On Bots With 'Human Verification' Requirements (yro.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Reddit

Book excerpt: how Google acquired DeepMind for $650M in 2014, beating Facebook to the deal; Mustafa Suleyman used poker-style bluffing to secure a safety board (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Google Facebook

Sources: Google's top India counsel Bijoya Roy resigned after 16 months to start a new venture, a high-profile exit in a market where it faces regulatory issues (www.reuters.com)
10 days ago India Google

Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service, initially debuting in Zagreb (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago China Europe Uber AI

Google sets a 2029 deadline for its post-quantum cryptography migration, aiming to “secure the quantum era” as “frontiers may be closer than they appear” (arstechnica.com)
10 days ago Google Quantum

Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models From Google's Gemini (apple.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Google AI Apple

Bubble AI app builder abused to steal Microsoft account credentials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
11 days ago Microsoft AI

Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago Facebook

Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Reddit

Facebook and Instagram owner enabled child sexual exploitation (www.rt.com)
11 days ago Facebook Instagram

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case (meta.slashdot.org)
11 days ago YouTube Social Media

The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago YouTube

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (www.cnbc.com)
11 days ago YouTube

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Google

Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models (www.theinformation.com)
11 days ago Google Apple

Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (research.google)
11 days ago Google Algorithm

Sources: worsening supply constraints in CPUs made by Intel and AMD add a fresh blow to PC and server makers already hit by a severe memory chip shortage (asia.nikkei.com)
11 days ago Intel AMD

Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI Spotify

Meta announces new shopping and ad features, including affiliate marketing tools for Instagram and Facebook creators and a “buy now” button for Facebook ads (www.businessinsider.com)
11 days ago Facebook Instagram

Google's Android Automotive Is Moving From the Dashboard To the 'Brain' of the Car (tech.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Android Google

Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Amazon Robot New York

A War of Deep Intel (dailyreckoning.com)
12 days ago Intel

Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its “open infrastructure” from infotainment to non-safety internal systems (www.theverge.com)
12 days ago Android Google

Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center project in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Microsoft Oracle Texas

Microsoft fixes bug causing Classic Outlook sync issues with Gmail (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
12 days ago Microsoft

Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch (www.ft.com)
12 days ago Amazon San Francisco Vegas

Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago Amazon Drone Iran

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Uber Interview

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