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US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet on sexualized deepfakes

In a letter to the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit and TikTok, several U.S. senators are demanding the companies provide proof that they have "robust protections and policies" in place, and how they plan to curb the rise of sexualized deepfakes on their platforms.

Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

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Spotify is hiking prices again

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AI for the introverts.

Google’s new Personal Intelligence launch for Gemini includes a familiar enough marketing example: asking AI for help buying tires instead of the human expert that was yards away at the time.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT translator challenges Google Translate

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A “conscious decision” from OpenAI.

The ChatGPT creator lost out when Apple and Google announced a deal for Gemini to power Siri, but a source told the Financial Times that the company made “a conscious decision to not become the custom model provider for Apple,” instead prioritizing its own AI hardware with ex-Apple designer Jony Ive.

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia

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Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.

Strengthening the US AI supply chain through domestic manufacturing

New Request for Proposals to help build and scale the infrastructure behind advanced AI.

Mira Murati's startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

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Three ex-OpenAI employees returned to the company after a stint at Thinking Machines Lab.

The AI industry employee shake-up continues. The three staffers, who had left for ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s own AI startup, are now back at OpenAI. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, wrote on X that she was “excited to welcome Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz back” and that the decision “has been in the works for several weeks.”