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📈 TikTok parent overtakes Meta in revenue
🛡️ OpenAI and Anthropic test each other's AI for safety
✂️ Google has cut 35% of small team managers
⚠️ Apple warns UK against new tech regulation
✍️ WhatsApp's new AI helps you rephrase messages
💸 Nvidia is (really) profiting from the AI boom
🎁 + 12 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
📈 TikTok parent overtakes Meta in revenue LINK
In the first quarter of 2025, ByteDance's revenue climbed to over $43 billion, surpassing Meta’s $42.3 billion and making it the world’s largest social media company by revenue.
The company's second-quarter revenue also grew 25 percent year-on-year to approximately $48 billion, with most of the increase driven by strong performance in its home market in China.
ByteDance is starting a huge stock buyback that values the company at more than $330 billion, funding the program from its balance sheet while boosting its share price for employees.
🛡️ OpenAI and Anthropic test each other's AI for safety LINK
OpenAI and Anthropic, two major AI rivals, agreed to evaluate the safety and alignment of each other’s publicly available systems and then shared the results from their analyses.
Anthropic’s review raised concerns about potential misuse with the GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 models and also identified sycophancy as a problem in most of the systems it tested.
OpenAI's analysis showed Anthropic's Claude models performed well in instruction hierarchy tests and had a high refusal rate in hallucination tests, meaning they avoided offering answers when uncertain.
✂️ Google has cut 35% of small team managers LINK
Google confirmed it has cut 35 percent of managers overseeing small teams compared to last year, aiming to have fewer leaders spread across much larger groups of employees.
Many managers whose positions were eliminated remain at the company, having been moved into different roles where they now work as individual contributors instead of supervising other staff.
The move is part of a wider efficiency plan that includes voluntary exit programs offered across ten units, which between 3 and 5 percent of employees have accepted this year.
⚠️ Apple warns UK against new tech regulation LINK
Apple warns the UK that its proposed regulations mirror the EU's Digital Markets Act, a policy it says delays features and is ultimately bad for both users and app makers.
The company claims that demands for "interoperability" compel access to sensitive user data and intellectual property, which undermines the privacy and security protections people have come to expect.
The CMA counters that its UK-specific plan differs from the EU's and will let developers "steer" payments to other systems and innovate without introducing new risks for consumers.
✍️ WhatsApp's new AI helps you rephrase messages LINK
WhatsApp's new "Writing Help" feature uses AI to suggest rephrased, proofread, or tonally adjusted versions of your messages, offering options like professional, funny, or supportive text.
The tool runs on "Meta’s Private Processing technology," which means Meta and WhatsApp cannot read your original message or the AI-generated rewrites, keeping your conversations private.
You can access these suggestions by tapping a new pencil icon that appears when writing a message, which then shows different options for how to phrase your text.
💸 Nvidia is (really) profiting from the AI boom LINK
Nvidia’s revenue jumped 56 percent to $46.7 billion for its second quarter, which is the ninth straight period where year-on-year income has increased by over 50 percent.
Sales for the new Blackwell-based chips reached $27 billion this quarter, a product line that now accounts for 50 percent of the company’s entire data center revenue.
Despite the US blocking H20 chip shipments, Nvidia is developing a more advanced chip for China based on its Blackwell architecture, which could lead to another leap in sales.
Other news you might like
- China used three private companies to hack global telecoms, U.S. saysLINK
- 4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in USLINK
- China Aims to Triple AI Chip Output by 2026, Challenging Nvidia’s DominanceLINK
- Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's tripleLINK
- AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study revealsLINK
- Google’s blockchain team is building an XRP killerLINK
- Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concernsLINK
- Apple pulls torrenting app from a third-party store in the EULINK
- Apple to secure nearly half of TSMC’s 2nm production (report)LINK
- US Air Force F-35 crashes after pilot's 50-minute conference call with Lockheed engineersLINK
- The '100,000-year data gap': Researcher explains why robots lag behind AI chatbotsLINK
- Eddy Cue wanted Apple to acquire two big companies, but Tim Cook said noLINK
Latest research and tools
bookmarks.txt: a concept for keeping website bookmarks in plain text files, allowing them to be managed and accessed with command-line tools and text editors.LINK
Cactoide(ae): a simple platform for creating events and collecting RSVPs through a shareable link, without requiring anyone to create an account.LINK
GPUPrefixSums: a collection of portable algorithms for calculating prefix sums, also known as running totals, on a wide variety of GPUs, and includes a novel technique to prevent crashes on certain devices.LINK
Predicting the Order of Upcoming Tokens Improves Language Modeling: training a language model to also predict the order of several upcoming words improves its overall performance.LINK
Learning Facts at Scale with Active Reading: the provided text does not contain information about this paper.LINK
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