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Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora Dec 18, 2024

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Google DeepMind, Google’s flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while. On Monday, DeepMind announced Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI and the successor to Veo, which powers a growing number of products across Google’s portfolio.

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UK’s internet watchdog finalizes first set of rules for Online Safety law Dec 17, 2024

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On Monday, the U.K.’s internet regulator, Ofcom, published the first set of final guidelines for online service providers subject to the Online Safety Act. This starts the clock ticking on the sprawling online harms law’s first compliance deadline, which the regulator expects to kick in in three months’ time.

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What exactly is an AI agent? Dec 17, 2024

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Regardless of how they're defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as possible.

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Bluesky is at a crossroads and OpenAI blames ChatGPT outage on a ‘new telemetry service’ Dec 16, 2024

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Now with 25 million users, Bluesky is facing a test that will determine whether or not its platform will still be seen as a safe space and place of refuge from the toxicity of X. Also, OpenAI is blaming one of the longest outages in its history on a “new telemetry service” gone awry. On Wednesday, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT; its video generator, Sora; and its developer-facing API experienced major disruptions starting at around 3 p.m. Pacific.

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Controversial EU ad campaign on X broke bloc’s own privacy rules Dec 16, 2024

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The European Union’s executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign on X (formerly Twitter) breached the EU’s own data protection rules.

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United and Air Canada can now use Apple AirTags to track lost luggage Dec 13, 2024

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Arriving in time for holiday travel and potentially lost luggage, a new feature that allows Apple AirTag owners to share the location of a lost item is now integrated with the customer service systems of two major airlines. United and Air Canada are the first launch partners for Apple’s “Find My Share Item Location” feature,

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Google wants to sell those Project Astra AR glasses some day, but it won’t be today Dec 13, 2024

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Google is slowly peeling back the curtain on its vision to, one day, sell you glasses with augmented reality and multimodal AI capabilities. The company’s plans for those glasses, however, are still blurry.

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Researchers uncover Chinese spyware used to target Android devices Dec 12, 2024

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The spyware, called EagleMsgSpy, has been used by Chinese law enforcement, according to cybersecurity firm Lookout.

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Electrified Thermal Solutions has a plan to help industry replace natural gas with bricks Dec 12, 2024

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The startup has been working to imbue the humble brick with the ability to transform electricity into heat and store it for hours on end.

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A new wave of desalination startups argues that deeper is better Dec 11, 2024

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Advances in robotics and seabed electrification have enabled a trio of startups to pursue deep sea reverse osmosis.

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