Amazon to Pay NYT Up to $25 Million for AI Licensing

PYMNTS / pymnts - Amazon’s artificial intelligence licensing deal with The New York Times reportedly carries an eight-figure annual price tag. [contact-form-7] The tech giant will pay the news company between $20 million and $25 million per year for content to train its AI…

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Cyata Launches Security Solution to Rein In Rogue AI Agents

Amid the rising integration of AI agents in everyday business workflows, startup Cyata has unveiled a dedicated solution aimed at keeping these autonomous systems under control. Investors are showing confidence in its approach as the new security tool targets the emerging challenges posed by increasingly independent AI operations.

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OpenAI’s Study Mode Fights Cheating—with a Kill Switch

Marcus Schuler / implicator - OpenAI launched Study Mode to transform ChatGPT into a patient tutor and stop student cheating. But students can toggle back to instant answers.

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Italy Raids Meta Offices and Launches Antitrust Probe Over ‘Imposed’ WhatsApp AI Chatbot

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Italy's competition authority (AGCM) is investigating Meta for allegedly abusing its dominant position by integrating its AI chatbot into WhatsApp without user consent.The post Italy Raids Meta Offices and Launches Antitrust Probe Over ‘Imposed’ WhatsApp …

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Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy

Lindsay Clark / theregister - Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves It is a little more than four years since the European Union first proposed legislation to govern tech companies that build AI systems and how users deploy them. A lot has changed since then.…

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Apple's AI brain drain continues as fourth researcher goes to Meta

appleinsider - The Apple Intelligence team is continuing to endure a brain drain following a fourth researcher's move over to Meta.Image credit: MetaReports across the summer have indicated that Apple has at least some trouble holding onto its AI researchers. The latest…

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YouTube is turning over age verification to AI

Anna Washenko / engadget - YouTube will start using machine learning to determine whether viewers should be on a teen account. The company said it plans to start using this AI application on a subset of US users in the coming weeks for a trial before rolling it out to the rest of t…

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Google launches AI Mode in UK search

Lucy Adams / tech - Google has begun the UK rollout of AI Mode, a more conversational and "context-aware" layer added to its core search product. Unlike its earlier AI Overviews, which provide brief summaries atop tradit...

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Google Revises Android Earthquake Alerts After Major Miss in Turkey

Macy Meyer / cnet - Ten million people could have been notified by Google's Android Earthquake Alerts System before the 2023 disaster.

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Runway Launches New Aleph Model That Promises Next-Level AI Video Editing

Macy Meyer / cnet - Runway Aleph can remove objects and people from scenes, generate new camera angles, change objects in a scene and much more.

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Positron bets on energy-efficient AI chips to challenge Nvidia's dominance

techspot - Founded in 2023, Positron has rapidly attracted investment and attention from major cloud providers. The startup recently raised $51.6 million in new funding, bringing its total to $75 million. Its value proposition is straightforward: delivering AI infer…

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China Proposes Global AI Cooperation Organization

Chinese officials have proposed establishing a new international body dedicated to regulating artificial intelligence, aiming to set unified global standards. The initiative seeks to balance rapid AI innovation with safety and ethical considerations, raising eyebrows amid intense global competition in the tech sector.

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Even OpenAI's CEO Says Be Careful What You Share With ChatGPT

Jon Reed / cnet - The AI model is not your therapist and the company behind it can't necessarily keep it secret. Sam Altman thinks that's 'very screwed up.'

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Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. [...]

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab.

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Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

techspot - "You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or whatever you've studied you're expected to pay for," Trump said, likening the process to a person reading for knowledge – a practice not subject to royalties or con…

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Google's new Web Guide uses AI to change how you see search results

Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - Google has introduced a new AI-powered search feature called Web Guide that organizes and groups links together.

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Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

Tim Anderson / theregister - Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater' The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user's home directory and delete all their AWS resources.…

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FDA’s ‘Elsa’ AI For Faster Drug Approvals Under Fire for Hallucinating Studies, Highlighting Widespread Reliability Risks

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - The FDA's 'Elsa' AI, intended to speed up drug approvals, is reportedly fabricating studies, part of a wider trend of unreliable AI in high-stakes roles.The post FDA’s ‘Elsa’ AI For Faster Drug Approvals Under Fire for Hallucinating Studies, Highlighting …

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AI Tool Deciphers Ancient Roman Inscriptions in Seconds, Transforming Historical Research

Maria Garcia / implicator - Google's new AI reads damaged Roman inscriptions in seconds, work that takes historians days. The system found connections in ancient texts that human experts missed, potentially transforming how we study the past.

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