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📹 Apple illegally used YouTube videos to train AI models
👀 AI hacktivists target Disney in massive data leak
🤔 FBI accessed locked phone of Trump shooter in just two days
🔍 Microsoft faces UK antitrust probe after hiring Inflection AI founders and employees
🚗 Elon Musk confirms Tesla ‘robotaxi’ event delayed due to design change
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
📹 Apple illegally used YouTube videos to train AI modelsLINK
More than 170,000 YouTube videos were used by companies like Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce to train AI systems, without obtaining permission from the platform.
The training dataset, known as “YouTube Subtitles,” consists of subtitles extracted from videos on over 48,000 YouTube channels, including content from popular creators and major news outlets.
Proof News and Wired's investigation revealed that this dataset is part of a larger collection called The Pile, which includes various publicly available or licensed materials used to train AI systems.
👀 AI hacktivists target Disney in massive data leakLINK
Hackers claiming to be a "hacktivist group" named Nullbulge leaked over a terabyte of Disney's internal data, including login information, code, and details on unreleased projects.
Nullbulge gained access to Disney's Slack messaging channels through a compromised employee computer, downloading and packaging data from nearly 10,000 corporate channels.
The leaked files, which include conversations about Disney's internal projects and upcoming gaming collaborations, were allegedly targeted due to Disney's handling of artist contracts and use of generative AI.
🤔 FBI accessed locked phone of Trump shooter in just two daysLINK
The FBI quickly accessed the phone of the Trump rally shooter, just two days after the attempted assassination, highlighting the improved efficiency of phone-hacking tools.
Law enforcement agencies widely use tools like Cellebrite, which can extract and unlock data from mobile devices, and the FBI likely has additional in-house methods for such tasks.
Federal agencies have historically struggled with phone encryption, clashing with companies like Apple, but advancements in third-party tools have made it easier to breach mobile security.
🔍 Microsoft faces UK antitrust probe after hiring Inflection AI founders and employeesLINK
Microsoft is facing an antitrust investigation in the U.K. after recruiting key team members from Inflection AI, a competitor to OpenAI in which Microsoft had previously invested.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started a "phase 1" merger inquiry, launching a 40-working day investigation to determine if a full probe is necessary.
The probe arrives as concerns grow that big tech companies are using strategic hires and investments, termed "quasi-mergers," to avoid regulatory scrutiny around artificial intelligence advancements.
🚗 Elon Musk confirms Tesla ‘robotaxi’ event delayed due to design changeLINK
Elon Musk has delayed the unveiling of Tesla's robotaxi prototype, citing an important design change, which will push the reveal date back by weeks or even months from the originally planned August 8.
Responding to pressure from investors, Musk addressed the delay through social media, hinting at additional surprises but not providing specific details, sparking further speculation among fans and stakeholders.
Despite the postponement, Musk's initial announcement of the robotaxi unveiling was strategically timed to boost investor confidence in Tesla amidst concerns over its aging lineup and future growth prospects.
Other news you might like
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink: Bitcoin is ‘legitimate financial instrument'.LINK
This HR company tried to treat AI bots like people — it didn’t go over well.LINK
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Microsoft unveils software that allows LLMs to work with spreadsheets.LINK
Major Stripe investor Sequoia confirms $70B valuation, offers its investors a payday.LINK
Latest research and tools
Exo: allows users to create a unified AI cluster using their existing devices, like iPhones, iPads, Android, Mac, and Linux, to run larger models without needing expensive hardware or manual configuration, and offers a ChatGPT-compatible API.LINK
KUtrace: a tool for efficiently tracking activity and performance issues across Linux kernels and user applications without significantly impacting system resources.LINK
Shapeshift: a TypeScript library that remaps JSON objects to different structures by matching key similarities using vector embeddings, supporting nested objects and requiring an API key from providers like Cohere, OpenAI, or Voyage.LINK
Transformer Layers as Painters: transformer layers in neural networks can be viewed as artists, each adding unique details to the final output.LINK
New Gaussian Splatting viewer: an interactive tool that displays, edits, and visualizes 3D scenes in real-time, allowing for on-the-fly code modifications, scene comparisons, and the saving of renderings and videos, using a Python-based GUI.LINK
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