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Sources: some at Apple think it is over two years behind the leaders in generative AI; a closer look at changes in Apple's HR and hardware engineering groups (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: some at Apple think it is over two years ...

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After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets (Daysia Tolentino/NBC News)

After allegations of poor working conditions on Mr...

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Anthropic evaluates four "sabotage" threat vectors for its Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models and finds that "minimal mitigations are sufficient" (Anthropic)

Anthropic evaluates four "sabotage" threat vectors...

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In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen restrictions on sales of chipmaking equipment to China or risk facing US curbs on Japanese companies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to stren...

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Kazakhstan-based Kaspi.kz agrees to acquire a majority share, or 65.4%, of Turkish e-commerce platform Hepsiburada for ~$1.13B, expected to close in Q1 2025 (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Kazakhstan-based Kaspi.kz agrees to acquire a majo...

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How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid (Steven Levy/Wired)

How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an ...

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Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools (Bloomberg)

Students, academics, and developers say AI writing...

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Meta Quest 3S teardown: has the same single LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics as Quest 2 but uses two IR flood illuminators for depth mapping instead of one (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Meta Quest 3S teardown: has the same single LCD pa...

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Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are keeping the Bitcoin they produce while an increasing number of companies are spending more on AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)

Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are ...

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How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions (Wall Street Journal)

How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tour...

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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge during the pandemic helped it build an AI-ready "connectivity cloud", balkanization of the internet, more (Om Malik/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic su...

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Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short (Marah Eakin/Wired)

Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI f...

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A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from ...

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DeepSeek, 01.ai, and other Chinese companies are reducing costs to create AI models by focusing on smaller training data sets, as they deal with export controls (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

DeepSeek, 01.ai, and other Chinese companies are r...

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DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it as a Chinese military company, after failing to engage on the issue for over 16 months (K Oanh Ha/Bloomberg)

DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to ...

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DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it as a Chinese military company, after failing to engage on the issue for over 16 months (K Oanh Ha/Bloomberg)

DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to ...

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In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern Ca...

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Fuji Soft's board decided to keep backing KKR's ~$4B buyout offer despite Bain's $4.2B bid, in a rare battle between PE titans over a Japanese software company (Financial Times)

Fuji Soft's board decided to keep backing KKR's ~$...

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