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Vittoria Elliott / Wired: ISD: fake footage of Iran’s attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts”  —  Misleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage… Read More »ISD: fake footage of Iran’s attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts” (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: CISA said locks from RealPage’s Chirp Systems, reportedly on ~50K US dwellings, can be unlocked via a hack; Chirp was told in 2021 but is quiet about the flaw  —  The U.S. government is… Read More »CISA said locks from RealPage’s Chirp Systems, reportedly on ~50K US dwellings, can be unlocked via a hack; Chirp was told in 2021 but is quiet about the flaw (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Artificial Intelligence Index: Stanford’s AI Index report: training top AI models gets more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people have become more worried about AI, more  —  Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. … Read More »Stanford’s AI Index report: training top AI models gets more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people have become more worried about AI, more (Artificial Intelligence Index)

New York Times: Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator’s “voice”  —  Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers… Read More »Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator’s “voice” (New York Times)

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Source: a16z closed $7.2B for its newest set of funds, with allocations for AI infrastructure, AI apps, its “American Dynamism” strategy, and more  —  – About half of the targeted capital was aimed for its growth… Read More »Source: a16z closed $7.2B for its newest set of funds, with allocations for AI infrastructure, AI apps, its “American Dynamism” strategy, and more (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)

Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: Sources detail how China-based ByteDance and US TikTok operations remain intertwined, with some US staff effectively reporting to ByteDance, data sharing, more  —  In January, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced an intense grilling by skeptical… Read More »Sources detail how China-based ByteDance and US TikTok operations remain intertwined, with some US staff effectively reporting to ByteDance, data sharing, more (Alexandra Sternlicht/Fortune)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston on adding AI tools, evolving beyond file syncing, rejecting Steve Jobs’ buyout offer, online storage, remote working, and more  —  Leaders can’t ‘keep mashing the go back to 2019… Read More »Q&A with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston on adding AI tools, evolving beyond file syncing, rejecting Steve Jobs’ buyout offer, online storage, remote working, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: An interview with Framework CEO Nirav Patel on ongoing firmware and software issues with its repairable laptops, the planned fixes, Intel and AMD, and more  —  New features, security updates, and Linux support are all… Read More »An interview with Framework CEO Nirav Patel on ongoing firmware and software issues with its repairable laptops, the planned fixes, Intel and AMD, and more (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Adobe is in the early stages of developing a way to let users tap third-party tools from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate and use video in Premiere Pro  —  Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday said… Read More »Adobe is in the early stages of developing a way to let users tap third-party tools from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate and use video in Premiere Pro (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Tony Romm / Washington Post: AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon quietly lobby to weaken a $42.5B program to improve US internet access, aiming to block new rules on poor customers’ bills  —  As Washington readies the largest burst of broadband… Read More »AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon quietly lobby to weaken a $42.5B program to improve US internet access, aiming to block new rules on poor customers’ bills (Tony Romm/Washington Post)