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🤝 OpenAI flips Sora's copyright policy in 72 hours
🛰️ Bezos predicts gigawatt data centers in space
📈 Google Gemini gains ground on ChatGPT
⚠️ Discord breach leaks user data and photo IDs
🏦 Coinbase applies for a national trust charter
🎁 + 10 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🤝 OpenAI flips Sora's copyright policy in 72 hours LINK
After launching with few restrictions and allowing copyrighted material like "South Park," OpenAI quickly blocked these prompts following what appeared to be a forceful response from copyright holders.
CEO Sam Altman announced that rights holders will soon get an expanded control system allowing them to set detailed rules for how their specific characters can be generated in Sora.
The company also revealed plans for a new revenue model to share money with creators when their content is generated, although concrete details or a timeline have not been released.
🛰️ Bezos predicts gigawatt data centers in space LINK
Jeff Bezos predicts that within 20 years, companies will construct enormous gigawatt data centers in space, where constant solar power and easier cooling offer an edge over Earth-based facilities.
Uninterrupted by clouds or night, solar panels in Earth orbit could provide consistent energy, while the extreme cold of space offers a straightforward way to cool the powerful server equipment.
The project is commercially unfeasible today because launching thousands of metric tons of solar panels and radiators would require well over 150 launches and cost tens of billions of dollars.
📈 Google Gemini gains ground on ChatGPT LINK
Google Gemini is gaining ground in the market, with its share of generative AI traffic more than doubling from 6.5 percent to 13.7 percent over the last twelve months.
Although ChatGPT still commands the market, its share of generative AI traffic has dropped from 87.1 percent to 73.8 percent, showing a clear decline in its overall dominance.
The rest of the market remains fragmented, with competitors like DeepSeek, Perplexity, Grok, Claude, and Microsoft's Copilot each holding less than four percent of the generative AI traffic.
⚠️ Discord breach leaks user data and photo IDs LINK
Hackers compromised a third-party customer service provider, exposing Discord users' personally identifying information like real names, usernames, email addresses, and other contact details provided to the support team.
The attackers also gained access to photos of government-issued identification documents and partial billing info, which included payment type, purchase history, and the last four credit card digits.
The incident also compromised IP addresses, plus the full messages and attachments that people sent to Discord's support agents when they were seeking help with their accounts.
🏦 Coinbase applies for a national trust charter LINK
Coinbase has applied for a national trust charter to expand its crypto payment services using stablecoins, while making it clear the company has no intention of becoming a bank.
The charter would give Coinbase a single federal overseer instead of a patchwork of state regulators, helping the exchange launch new crypto features much faster across the United States.
Other firms like Circle, Ripple, and Paxos are seeking similar national licenses to bypass slow federal lawmaking and the messy landscape of differing state-by-state rules for digital assets.
Other news you might like
- Google’s Gemini AI app could soon be getting a big makeoverLINK
- Huawei allegedly smuggled 2.9 million TSMC dies through an intermediaryLINK
- Bankman-Fried says his biggest mistake was handing FTX to new CEO before bankruptcyLINK
- With its latest acqui-hire, OpenAI is doubling down on personalized consumer AILINK
- As AI redefines work, US employers cut jobs and remain cautious in hiringLINK
- Fairphone CEO says it’s a ‘myth’ that sustainable tech has to cost more and be of lower quality: ‘Neither is needed’LINK
- Tencent trains AI that can explain and execute game strategies in Honor of KingsLINK
- AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decadeLINK
- Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with adsLINK
- Your team can chat with Anthropic's Claude directly in Slack now - what it can doLINK
Latest research and tools
fssimu2: a tool that measures the visual similarity between two images, designed to be faster and use less memory than the original reference implementation.LINK
Characterizing Realistic Workloads on a Commercial Compute-in-SRAM Device: this paper analyzes how a commercial chip that computes inside its memory performs when running realistic, real-world applications.LINK
Pretraining Under Infinite Compute: this paper finds that for a given amount of computing power, it is better to train a smaller model for more steps than previously thought.LINK
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