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Cecilia Kang / New York Times: In partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, US DHS rolls out pilot programs to test AI tech to help combat drug and human trafficking crimes, and more  —  The agency will be the first… Read More »In partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, US DHS rolls out pilot programs to test AI tech to help combat drug and human trafficking crimes, and more (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: The US SEC fines Delphia and Global Predictions a combined $400K for making “false and misleading statements” about their use of AI  —  – Delphia and Global Predictions agreed to pay $400,000 in total  — Cases… Read More »The US SEC fines Delphia and Global Predictions a combined $400K for making “false and misleading statements” about their use of AI (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok launches Creator Rewards, a creator monetization program that has payouts based on “search value”, originality, play duration, and audience engagement  —  TikTok is leaning in even more to its app being used like a… Read More »TikTok launches Creator Rewards, a creator monetization program that has payouts based on “search value”, originality, play duration, and audience engagement (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Dave Lee / Bloomberg: Apple and Google partnering for an AI deal is beneficial for both, giving Apple a compelling AI story for investors and Google access to affluent users  —  A deal that would bring Gemini artificial intelligence to… Read More »Apple and Google partnering for an AI deal is beneficial for both, giving Apple a compelling AI story for investors and Google access to affluent users (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: App analytics company Sensor Tower acquires Data.ai for an undisclosed amount; Crunchbase: Data.ai raised $157M+ while Sensor Tower raised just $46M  —  Sensor Tower, a leading app analytics firm, is acquiring rival Data.ai in a move… Read More »App analytics company Sensor Tower acquires Data.ai for an undisclosed amount; Crunchbase: Data.ai raised $157M+ while Sensor Tower raised just $46M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Some GPT Store developers express disappointment by the lack of users and OpenAI not offering user analytics; OpenAI does not yet let developers charge money  —  Last fall, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sought to capitalize… Read More »Some GPT Store developers express disappointment by the lack of users and OpenAI not offering user analytics; OpenAI does not yet let developers charge money (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on the failed Adobe deal, competing with Adobe, the new multi-edit tool, building tools, AI, AGI, Dev Mode, the web, and more  —  The leader of design toolmaker Figma… Read More »Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on the failed Adobe deal, competing with Adobe, the new multi-edit tool, building tools, AI, AGI, Dev Mode, the web, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Google Research details VLOGGER, an AI model that can generate lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing, and moving from a single still photo  —  Google researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can generate… Read More »Google Research details VLOGGER, an AI model that can generate lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing, and moving from a single still photo (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: A profile of Indian startup Yotta Data Services, which plans to buy ~20K Nvidia H100 chips by June 2024 to offer computing power to Indian companies to build AI  —  Yotta and its 52-year-old CEO are… Read More »A profile of Indian startup Yotta Data Services, which plans to buy ~20K Nvidia H100 chips by June 2024 to offer computing power to Indian companies to build AI (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Clare Duffy / CNN: YouTube now requires creators to label when using AI to create realistic-looking videos via an upload checklist; clearly unrealistic videos do not need a label  —  New York CNN —  —  Starting Monday, YouTube creators will… Read More »YouTube now requires creators to label when using AI to create realistic-looking videos via an upload checklist; clearly unrealistic videos do not need a label (Clare Duffy/CNN)