Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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AI Chip Startup Etched Raises $500 Million to Take on Nvidia
AI chip startup Etched raised about $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, part of an effort to compete...
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Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B
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Roblox's AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using tech from a company called Persona, faces criticism for misidentifying ages (David Gilbert/Wired)
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Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
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Roblox
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Mercedes pauses the rollout of Drive Pilot, a Level 3 "eyes off" driving feature available in Europe and the US, citing low demand and high production costs (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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Mercedes temporarily scraps its Level 3 ‘eyes-off’ driving feature
Do we even need a Level 3 system?
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Mercedes pauses the rollout of Drive Pilot, a Level 3 “eyes off” driving feature available in Europe and the US, citing low demand and high production costs
By Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images (Bloomberg)
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US Senate Targets Sexual Deepfakes Amid Furor Over Grok Images on X
The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images in r...
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The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would let victims sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images on X
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The US FCC waives a rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after activation, which could make it harder for people to switch from Verizon (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
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Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule
FCC waives rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after activation.
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The US FCC waives a rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after they are activated, which could make it harder for people to switch from Verizon
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Taiwan issues an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau for allegedly illegally recruiting 70+ Taiwanese engineers, amid a crackdown on Chinese talent raids (Li Liu/Bloomberg)
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Taiwan Wants to Arrest OnePlus CEO in Latest Step to Block China
Prosecutors in Taiwan issued an arrest warrant for the chief executive officer of Chinese smartphone company OnePlus, stepping up efforts to stem p...
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Taiwan issues an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau for allegedly illegally hiring 70+ Taiwanese engineers, as it tries to stop China from raiding workers
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A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.
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A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats
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Google makes improvements to Veo 3.1's Ingredients to Video feature to make videos more expressive, and adds native vertical video generation and 4K upscaling (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Google’s Veo now turns portrait images into vertical AI videos
Ready to slop into YouTube Shorts.
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Google makes improvements to Veo 3.1
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Sources: India asked quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise due to concerns about rider safety; Blinkit already removed the assurance (Bloomberg)
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India Presses Quick-Commerce Firms to End 10-Minute Deliveries
India is asking quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise amid mounting concerns that the ultra-tight deadlines are worseni...
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Sources: India asked quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise due to concerns about rider safety; Blinkit already removed the assurance
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Sources: China has told some tech companies that it will approve Nvidia H200 chip purchases only under special circumstances, such as for university research (Qianer Liu/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-restricts-nvidia-chip-purchases-special-circumstances
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Sources: China has told some tech companies that it would only approve Nvidia H200 chip purchases under special circumstances, such as for university research
By Qianer Liu / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.