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🔍 US probes into AI giants
📹 Chinese firm launches new Sora rival
⚡️ Adobe's AI policies spark backlash
🔐 Apple to launch new Passwords app
🛡️ DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service
❤️ Japan hopes new Tinder-like matchmaking app will curb population decline
🎁 + 11 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🔍 US probes into AI giantsLINK
The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have reached an agreement to initiate antitrust investigations into Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI, with the agreement expected to be finalized shortly. The Justice Department will investigate Nvidia's market dominance in AI processors, examining the software bundled with its chips and its distribution methods, due to growing industry concerns. The FTC will probe into potential unfair advantages held by Microsoft and OpenAI in the large language model market, focusing on Microsoft's $13 billion investment and partnership with OpenAI, as well as its recent software licensing deal with Inflection AI.
📹 Chinese firm launches new Sora rivalLINK
Kuaishou, a Chinese short video platform, has introduced Kling, a new text-to-video model that generates impressive, realistic motion and adheres to physical laws.
Kling's features include a 3D spatio-temporal joint attention mechanism and a diffusion transformer architecture, enabling it to create fluid, natural-looking videos and fantastical scenes from text prompts.
Though Kling represents a significant advancement in AI-generated content, OpenAI's Sora still leads in realism and detail, showcasing more nuanced facial expressions and better interaction with light.
⚡️ Adobe's AI policies spark backlashLINK
Adobe users are expressing discontent over a long-standing Terms of Use update from February 2024, which allows Adobe to review user content stored in its cloud services.
The update sparked controversy when concept artist Sam Santala highlighted the terms, stating that Adobe's policy grants it access to user-created content, including files under NDA, which Adobe claims aids service improvements.
While Adobe asserts that the scanning practices are limited and users can opt out of some content analysis, the concerns persist, highlighting a conflict between user privacy expectations and Adobe’s operational methods.
🔐 Apple to launch new Passwords appLINK
Apple plans to introduce a new app called Passwords at its Worldwide Developers Conference next week, aimed to help users manage their login information.
The Passwords app will sync using iCloud Keychain but categorize logins into accounts, Wi-Fi networks, and passkeys, with additional support for Windows.
Expected to debut in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15, the app will generate and store passwords while offering features like autofill and creating authentication codes.
🛡️ DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new serviceLINK
DuckDuckGo launched a new "AI Chat" service, letting users interact with AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral, while focusing on maintaining user privacy and anonymity.
The service features models like GPT-3.5 Turbo, Claude 3 Haiku, Meta's Llama 3, and Mistral's Mixtral 8x7B, which can be accessed through the DuckDuckGo search engine, specific links, or command shortcuts.
Chats on DuckDuckGo's AI Chat are anonymized with user data removed, though some privacy concerns remain as the service processes inputs on remote servers, and the accuracy of AI-generated information is still an issue.
❤️ Japan hopes new Tinder-like matchmaking app will curb population declineLINK
The Tokyo metropolitan government is launching a dating app by the end of the summer to tackle the city's low birth rate, having allocated $1.28 million for the project.
The government-sponsored app will have strict requirements for users, such as income verification, proof of single status, and an interview, to ensure authenticity and encourage commitment.
Tokyo's birth rate hit a record low of 0.99 in 2023, prompting officials to take drastic measures like introducing the dating app to support individuals seeking marriage and ultimately boost the birth rate.
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Alibaba says new AI model Qwen2 bests Meta’s Llama 3 in tasks like maths and coding.LINK
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AI brain implant helps stroke survivor communicate in English and Spanish.LINK
Latest research and tools
Ice: a macOS bar manager that hides, shows, and rearranges menu bar items, offering features like displaying hidden items with gestures, and aiming to be versatile.LINK
CPU Energy Meter: a Linux tool for monitoring the energy consumption of Intel CPUs, utilizing the RAPL feature to provide detailed power usage data across various domains with minimal overhead.LINK
Σ-GPTs: a new approach to autoregressive models introduces a method to enhance language model performance.LINK
The illusion of state in state-space models: the paper discusses how perceived state representations in state-space models may not accurately reflect the true underlying state dynamics.LINK
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