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New York Times: Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits  —  To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need… Read More »Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text  —  OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules… Read More »Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text (New York Times)

Lewis Gordon / The Ringer: A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple’s design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles  —  A scene as still and pure… Read More »A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple’s design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles (Lewis Gordon/The Ringer)

Nikkei Asia: TSMC’s swift response to the earthquake highlights the readiness of Taiwan’s chip sector, and experts say Japan’s chip industry is similarly well-prepared  —  Manufacturers apply lessons from past to keep industry humming  —  Taiwan, home to TSMC and… Read More »TSMC’s swift response to the earthquake highlights the readiness of Taiwan’s chip sector, and experts say Japan’s chip industry is similarly well-prepared (Nikkei Asia)

Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity: Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security  —  Cloud security provider Wiz found two critical architecture… Read More »Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security (Kevin Poireault/Infosecurity)

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Belgium-based Robovision, which offers AI-based no-code computer vision tools to businesses, raised a $42M Series A co-led by Astanor Ventures and Target Global  —  Faced with labor shortages, sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture are increasingly… Read More »Belgium-based Robovision, which offers AI-based no-code computer vision tools to businesses, raised a $42M Series A co-led by Astanor Ventures and Target Global (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

South China Morning Post: Sources: ByteDance, which was directly involved in countering US efforts to ban TikTok in 2020, has let the US TikTok team lead the response this time around  —  – Beijing-based ByteDance has left the US TikTok… Read More »Sources: ByteDance, which was directly involved in countering US efforts to ban TikTok in 2020, has let the US TikTok team lead the response this time around (South China Morning Post)

Peter Kafka / Business Insider: Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube’s $28.8B in ad revenue that year  —  – Instagram generated $32.4 billion in ad… Read More »Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube’s $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers  —  Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote… Read More »Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snapchat turns off Solar System, which lets users see their position in their friends’ orbits, by default, after a report said it was adding to teens’ anxiety  —  Less than a week after The Wall St.… Read More »Snapchat turns off Solar System, which lets users see their position in their friends’ orbits, by default, after a report said it was adding to teens’ anxiety (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)