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🔮 Apple's AI now has a name
🤬 Silicon Valley in uproar after lawmakers demand AI firms install ‘kill switch’
📰 Perplexity is directly 'ripping off' content from news outlets
👍 Microsoft makes controversial Recall feature opt-in
📱 New York bans addictive social media algorithms for kids
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🔮 Apple's AI now has a nameLINK
Apple is expected to reveal its new artificial intelligence technology named 'Apple Intelligence' at the upcoming WWDC event.
Apple Intelligence will be integrated into the next generation of iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems, and Apple is partnering with OpenAI to offer a chatbot similar to ChatGPT.
This development follows years of acquiring AI companies to enhance Siri's performance, with expectations that new AI features will significantly improve the voice assistant's capabilities.
🤬 Silicon Valley in uproar after lawmakers demand AI firms install ‘kill switch’LINK
AI companies in Silicon Valley are upset over California lawmakers’ proposal requiring a “kill switch” to prevent dangerous uses of artificial intelligence, with some firms considering leaving the state.
The legislation, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener, aims to regulate AI systems to avoid catastrophic scenarios like starting a nuclear war, and includes the creation of a new state agency for overseeing AI development.
Tech firms argue that the proposed regulations would hinder innovation and drive companies and skilled workers out of California, posing significant economic impacts to the state’s tech industry.
📰 Perplexity is directly 'ripping off' content from news outletsLINK
Perplexity's CEO Aravind Srinivas has acknowledged that their Pages feature has "rough edges" and needs improvement in clearly highlighting contributing sources, following criticisms for copying media content without proper citations.
Several media outlets, including Forbes, have noted that some Perplexity Pages contain verbatim passages from exclusive, paywalled content, which points to significant issues with the product's use of copyrighted material.
Critics argue that Perplexity's practice and Srinivas' defense of it show a fundamental misunderstanding of journalism, as their approach reduces web traffic for original content creators and undermines the value of curated journalistic work.
👍 Microsoft makes controversial Recall feature opt-inLINK
Microsoft addressed privacy concerns about its auto-screenshotting feature, Recall, in Copilot+ by making it an opt-in feature during setup, rather than the default setting.
Users will need to enable biometric sign-in via Windows Hello, such as with facial recognition, fingerprint, or PIN, to access the screenshots stored by Recall.
Despite initial privacy concerns, Microsoft assures users that screenshots will be encrypted and only accessible to authenticated users, as the new PCs equipped with Copilot+ roll out on June 18.
📱 New York bans addictive social media algorithms for kidsLINK
New York's Legislature passed a bill on Friday to ban social media platforms from using "addictive" recommendation algorithms for users under 18 years old.
The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids act requires social media companies to provide reverse-chronological feeds for children instead of algorithm-based content suggestions.
Governor Kathy Hochul is expected to sign the bill into law, which aims to address the negative impact of algorithmic feeds on children's mental health.
Other news you might like
OpenAI's new method shows how GPT-4 'thinks' in human-understandable concepts.LINK
Messenger's new community chats don't need to be connected to Facebook groups.LINK
Tesla preps its API for Robotaxi with two new features.LINK
Nvidia's Blackwell can train GPT-4 in 10 days, but does this solve current models' problems?.LINK
Google’s $2.3 million check helped the company get a trial by judge instead of jury.LINK
Yelp can sue reputation company for promising to suppress bad reviews.LINK
Latest research and tools
Content Injection Attack on GitHub: a security concern where attackers modify the content of a GitHub repository or page without authorization, potentially compromising the integrity of the codebase and misleading the project's community.LINK
Zig: a programming language designed to replace C by allowing direct use of C libraries without wrappers, supporting compile-time code execution, and simplifying dependencies with Git URLs, all while focusing on safety, simplicity, and removing traditional build systems.LINK
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