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⚖️ Google won’t have to sell Chrome, judge rules
🤝 OpenAI to acquire Statsig in $1.1bn deal
🤖 Apple loses lead robotics AI researcher to Meta
🛡️ Cloudflare blocks record 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack
📸 Amazon now lets you shop by scanning real-world items
🎁 + 15 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
⚖️ Google won’t have to sell Chrome, judge rules LINK
A DC District Court judge has ruled that Google does not have to give up its popular Chrome browser, rejecting the Department of Justice’s most significant request in the search antitrust case.
Instead of a divestiture, the court will only impose modest behavioral remedies, forcing Google to release some search data to competitors while limiting its ability to create exclusive distribution deals.
The company can continue paying for search placement with partners like Apple but cannot require them to bundle other apps such as Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini for Play Store access.
🤝 OpenAI to acquire Statsig in $1.1bn deal LINK
OpenAI is acquiring the product testing startup Statsig for $1.1 billion in an all-stock deal, marking one of the ChatGPT maker’s largest acquisitions under its current $300 billion valuation.
Statsig founder and CEO Vijaye Raji will join OpenAI as the new CTO of Applications, heading product engineering for ChatGPT, the AI coding tool Codex, and other future applications.
After the deal closes, all Statsig employees will become OpenAI employees, but the startup will continue operating independently from its Seattle office to serve its existing customer base.
🤖 Apple loses lead robotics AI researcher to Meta LINK
Top AI robotics researcher Jian Zhang has departed from Apple to join Meta’s Robotics Studio, fueling a crisis of confidence as a dozen experts have recently left for rival companies.
The ongoing exodus is driven by internal turmoil, including technical setbacks on the Siri V2 overhaul and a leadership veto on a plan to open-source certain AI models.
Zhang's expertise will support Meta’s ambitions to provide core AI platforms for third-party humanoid robots, a key initiative within its Reality Labs division that competes with Google DeepMind.
🛡️ Cloudflare blocks record 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack LINK
Cloudflare recently blocked the internet's largest recorded volumetric DDoS attack, an assault that peaked at an enormous 11.5 terabits per second amid a wave of hyper-volumetric campaigns.
The company stated the record assault was a short UDP flood that lasted only 35 seconds and mainly originated from servers running on the Google Cloud platform, according to its tweet.
This new event shatters the previous high of 7.3 Tbps from just two months ago, showing a rapid escalation in the size of network-layer attacks seen throughout this entire year.
📸 Amazon now lets you shop by scanning real-world items LINK
Amazon's new Lens Live feature lets you point your camera at an object to see a swipeable carousel of matching products from its catalog directly on your live screen.
The tool integrates with the Rufus AI shopping assistant to show an AI-generated description and suggested prompts for asking more questions about each item that is displayed.
The feature uses a computer vision object detection model to process images on your device in real time, and it is available at launch only within the iOS app.
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Latest research and tools
Voyager: an interactive model that generates explorable 3D videos from a single image, letting users define a camera path to navigate the scene.LINK
iNaturalist: a service that makes a subset of its species classification models publicly available for applications like on-device testing, while its full, more comprehensive models remain private.LINK
Amazonq.nvim: a plugin that integrates the Amazon Q AI assistant into the Neovim editor, offering chat functionality and inline code suggestions to help developers write code.LINK
LightCycle: a game based on Tron where you navigate a vehicle that leaves a trail, trying to make your AI or human opponent crash while avoiding crashing yourself.LINK
B612: an open-source font family designed and tested to improve legibility and reading comfort on aircraft cockpit screens.LINK
KIP-966: an update to Kafka's replication protocol that allows servers to forward requests to each other, simplifying internal communication and management within the system.LINK
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