Senate votes against curbing state-level AI regulation
Sarah Fielding / engadget - Yesterday, the senate was poised to restrict states' power to regulate AI. Now, the measure is dead in the water, with the Senate voting 99-1 to remove the provision. Are you also having a bit of whiplash? Here's what you need to know about the amendments…
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Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI
cnbc - The funding will go towards xAI's efforts to build out its AI infrastructure and develop its Grok chatbot.
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Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default
cnbc - Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be given the option to allow — or block — AI crawlers.
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Hollywood Confronts AI Copyright Chaos in Washington, Courts
Amrith Ramkumar / wsj - Technology firms say using copyrighted materials to train AI models is key to America’s success, while creatives want their work protected.
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11 Bit Studios clarifies its AI use in The Alters after player outcry
Anna Washenko / engadget - 11 Bit Studios has drawn the ire of players for the undisclosed use of artificial intelligence in its recent release, The Alters. The new project from the team behind Frostpunk and This War of Mine is a narratively and thematically interesting take on a s…
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Apple rumored to be in talks with Anthropic and OpenAI about powering new Siri
appleinsider - A rumor around Apple's AI initiatives suggests the company could turn to third parties instead of relying on its own Apple Intelligence for an upgraded Siri, but there's likely a different story.Apple could bring ChatGPT to Siri in a more integrated wayAp…
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Congress might block state AI laws for five years. Here’s what it means.
Rebecca Bellan, Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Here…
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Meta shares hit all-time high as Mark Zuckerberg goes on AI hiring blitz
cnbc - Meta shares hit a record high on Monday, underscoring investor interest in the company's new AI superintelligence group.
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Pixelmator Pro gains better RAW images, Accessibility -- and Apple Intelligence
appleinsider - In the first major update since it was acquired by Apple, the Pixelmator Pro image editor for Mac has added features for pros with more RAW support, plus Image Playground from Apple Intelligence.The new Pixelmator Pro 3.7 remains a standalone app, but has…
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Cursor Launches New Web App, Takes AI Coding Agents Beyond IDEs
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anysphere has launched a new web and mobile app for its Cursor AI code editor, allowing developers to manage autonomous coding agents from any device as the company surpasses $500M in revenue and expands its enterprise ecosystem.The post Cursor Launches N…
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Google expands access to AI tools in the classroom for educators with Gemini
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Google LLC today announced a vastly expanded suite of artificial intelligence tools for educators with Gemini in the Classroom, which includes more than 30 features to help teachers spend more time with students. The new features build on personalized lea…
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Oracle Inks Secret $30B AI Cloud Deal, Shaking Up Market
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Oracle has secured a landmark cloud services contract worth over $30 billion annually, signaling a major shift in the AI infrastructure market and validating its high-stakes strategy to compete with cloud giants.The post Oracle Inks Secret $30B AI Cloud D…
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Microsoft Says its New AI Diagnoses Disease 4x Better Than Doctors
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has unveiled a powerful new artificial intelligence system it claims can diagnose complex medical conditions with an accuracy rate more than four times higher than experienced physicians, a development one top executive hailed as “Microsoft has …
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Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI
Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.
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Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
Julie Bort / techcrunch - Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
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Denmark’s Plan to Fight Deepfakes: Give Citizens Copyright to Their Own Likeness
AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - 'Face/Off' would definitely be illegal under this, right?
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Reddit turns 20, and it’s going big on AI
Jay Peters / theverge - Reddit has become known as the place to go for unfiltered answers from real, human users. But as the site celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, the company is increasingly thinking about how it can augment that human work with AI. The initial rollout…
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Tech Giants Score Legal Wins in AI Copyright Battles
Multiple rulings have favored AI companies in disputes over fair use of copyrighted material. A judge affirmed Meta’s use as fair in one case while cautioning that authors might prevail in future litigation, leaving the legal landscape both murky and unexpectedly congenial for tech giants battling creative copyright claims.
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Meta wants to upload every photo you have to its cloud to give you AI suggestions
appleinsider - Meta's latest feature gives Facebook the power to continuously upload your private photos to its cloud — even the ones you never intended to share. Here's how to stop it.Image credit: MetaIn a time where internet users are goaded into giving away their da…
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New Anthropic initiative will fund research into the economic impact of AI
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC is launching an initiative designed to support research into the economic impact of artificial intelligence and ways to address it. The Anthropic Economic Futures Program, as the project is called, was announced today. It’s designed to compl…
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