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For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
Alexandra Alter / New York Times : For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI …
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How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
Jack Jenkins / RNS : How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about…
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Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more…
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Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
Debby Wu / Bloomberg : Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance afte…
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Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including "disregard", "ignore", and "skip" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search su…
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Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a stan…
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Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including "dynamic quick access" for favourites, a "View more" floating action button, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including “dynam…
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Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
Sri Muppidi / The Information : Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in…
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August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for cons…
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OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the …
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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land : Google says it is testing new ad formats in sea…
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Spotify launches a "Verified by Spotify" badge for podcasts to help "authenticate creator identity", after releasing it for music in April (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget : Spotify launches a “Verified by Spotify” badge for podca…
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Seagate shares drop 9%+, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
CJ Haddad / CNBC : Seagate shares drop 9%+, leading a group-wide sell-off after com…
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Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 (Cursor)
Cursor : Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on …
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Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and "radical transparency", in a $100M deal (Lauren Sherman/Puck)
Lauren Sherman / Puck : Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, …
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