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🍎 Apple unveils new Mac mini with first redesign since 2010
👀 Microsoft accuses Google of 'shadow campaigns'
🤖 Open-source AI must disclose data used for training, says OSI
📈 Medium faces surge in AI-generated content
💰 Wiz CEO explains why he turned down $23 billion offer from Google
🎁 + 9 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🍎 Apple unveils new Mac mini with first redesign since 2010LINK
Apple has introduced an extremely compact Mac mini model featuring a groundbreaking 3-nanometer M4 chip, with an available upgrade to the powerful M4 Pro silicon.
This new Mac mini, measuring 5.5 inches square, retains its recycled aluminum build but includes new front-facing USB-C ports and a headphone jack for easier access.
The M4 Pro boosts the Mac mini's capabilities with a 14-core CPU, up to a 20-core GPU, and significant memory bandwidth, offering Thunderbolt 5 support for high-speed data transfers.
👀 Microsoft accuses Google of 'shadow campaigns'LINK
Microsoft has accused Google of secretly funding groups to produce biased studies discrediting Microsoft and misleading antitrust authorities, according to a blog post by their lawyer.
The blog claims that an astroturf group named the Open Cloud Coalition, allegedly backed by Google, is being posed as led by small European cloud providers for misleading appearances.
This behavior is part of a broader pattern where Google allegedly funds campaigns like the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing, which targets Microsoft’s cloud services, Microsoft claimed.
🤖 Open-source AI must disclose data used for training, says OSILINK
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has defined "open" AI as systems that provide complete access to training data, source code, and training settings, posing challenges for tech companies like Meta.
Meta's model Llama does not meet OSI's standards as it restricts commercial use and does not offer training data, leading to disagreements with OSI's new open AI definition.
This definition aims to prevent "open washing" by companies and has sparked discussions on AI openness, with industry leaders like Hugging Face supporting the emphasis on transparency in training data.
📈 Medium faces surge in AI-generated contentLINK
Medium has experienced difficulties with AI-generated content, with an analysis estimating over 47% of posts as AI-generated, marking a significantly greater prevalence than the wider internet.
Specific topics like "NFTs," "web3," and "ethereum" showed high percentages of AI-driven content, with one tag reaching around 78%, reflecting a substantial infiltration of automated writing in these areas.
Two separate AI detection companies found similar high rates of AI-written content, yet Medium's CEO, Tony Stubblebine, downplays concerns about the presence and significance of such content on the platform.
💰 Wiz CEO explains why he turned down $23 billion offer from GoogleLINK
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, believing the cloud security startup could eventually grow to a $100 billion valuation as the sector is rapidly expanding.
Wiz, with a private valuation of $12 billion and backed by major investors, declined several acquisition proposals, emphasizing the founders' top decision-making role despite nervousness about investors and employees' reactions.
The company, recognized as a fast-growing cybersecurity unicorn, achieved $500 million in annual recurring revenue and aims to reach $1 billion by 2025, aligning this growth with plans for a potential IPO.
Other news you might like
Apple Intelligence is here, but it still has a lot to learn.LINK
New USB-C Magic Mouse still has the charging port on the bottom.LINK
Google is expanding AI Overviews in Search to more than 100 countries.LINK
OpenAI CFO Says 75% of Its Revenue Comes From Paying Consumers.LINK
Universal Music partners with AI company building an ‘ethical’ music generator.LINK
The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI.LINK
Linus Torvalds slams AI as ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’.LINK
Polish radio station abandons use of AI 'presenters' following outcry.LINK
Nvidia hands out blueprints for the creation of scalable ‘AI factories’.LINK
Latest research and tools
GitHub's DMCA Transparency Repo: a public archive that compiles and shares DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received by GitHub, aiming to foster transparency and document the impact of these notices on free speech online.LINK
Marmite: a zero-configuration static site generator that reads markdown files in a directory, parses content, generates a customizable template for each page, and outputs a rendered static site, with an option to automatically rebuild on changes.LINK
Elasticsearch: a search and analytics engine that stores, searches, and analyzes big volumes of data in real-time, widely used for log and event data analysis.LINK
Integuru (YC W24): automates the creation of integration code by analyzing and reverse-engineering internal APIs of platforms to perform specific actions like downloading utility bills, using AI to interpret browser network requests and cookies.LINK
Basis: a robotics development framework aiming to simplify robotic software testing, usability, and performance, by automating the handling of publishers, subscribers, and message routing for developers, while emphasizing deterministic testing and code generation for rapid development.LINK
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