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🎮 EA will reportedly be acquired for $50B
👀 Apple made an internal ChatGPT-clone to test Siri
🤖 Meta wants to create the Android for robots
🎵 YouTube Music is testing AI hosts
💰 ByteDance will keep 50% of US TikTok profits
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🎮 EA will reportedly be acquired for $50B LINK
Video game maker Electronic Arts is reportedly planning to go private through a transaction that could be valued as high as $50 billion, according to information from several news outlets.
Potential investors for the acquisition include Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, along with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which already holds a nine percent stake in EA.
The Wall Street Journal suggests this move might become the largest leveraged buyout ever, a report that immediately caused the corporation’s stock price to jump by roughly 15 percent.
👀 Apple made an internal ChatGPT-clone to test Siri LINK
Apple created an internal ChatGPT-inspired app called "Veritas" for employees, which allows the company to test new Siri skills before the assistant's public release next year.
The internal application lets Siri practice searching through personal data like emails and messages, or perform tasks within other apps, such as editing your photos for you.
Apple reportedly expects its full vision for the voice assistant to arrive in 2026, and is now considering a partnership with Google to help power these AI features.
🤖 Meta wants to create the Android for robots LINK
Meta plans to create a robot software platform that other hardware companies can license, similar to Google’s Android model, rather than focusing on building its own competing consumer robot hardware.
The project begins by building a "world model," which is software simulation required to help a robot animate complex and precise movements, such as the motions of a "dexterous hand."
Led by former Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, the robotics team is working with Meta's Superintelligence Labs and has a hardware prototype in the works called the "Metabot" for research purposes.
🎵 YouTube Music is testing AI hosts LINK
YouTube Music is testing AI commentary hosts through its new Labs program, an experimental feature that generates audio snippets with stories and trivia while you listen to different tracks.
The AI host, named "Beyond the Beat," will appear when you are listening to mixes and radio stations to provide relevant commentary and facts about your musical tastes.
Unlike Spotify's AI DJ, the new YouTube feature does not create playlists and instead focuses only on generating commentary that plays over your existing music streams.
💰 ByteDance will keep 50% of US TikTok profits LINK
ByteDance is poised to keep nearly half the profits from TikTok's US business through a licensing fee for its algorithm and a separate profit share from its equity stake.
The draft plan requires the American venture to pay a fee equal to about 20 percent of revenue generated through the platform’s valuable recommendation algorithm.
In addition to that payment, an ownership stake would allow the Chinese parent company to collect approximately 20 percent of profits earned on the remaining income.
Other news you might like
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- SoftBank and Ark Invest are in early talks to invest up to $20 billion in TetherLINK
- OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors: 'I don’t see this as crazy'LINK
- Lab-grown brain powered by 800,000 human neurons that plays PongLINK
- Microsoft's VibeVoice is a new AI podcast model that might generate spontaneous singingLINK
- China to build robot ‘boot camps’ as training centers to power next-gen humanoidsLINK
Latest research and tools
SimpleFold: a protein folding model that predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences using general purpose transformer layers.LINK
Family Chess: an online chess game that lets people play together even if they are behind restrictive firewalls or in countries with different internet access.LINK
Understanding RL for model training, and future directions with GRAPE: this research explains how reinforcement learning is used to train AI models and introduces a new method called GRAPE that aims to make the process more efficient.LINK
LuaJIT Language Toolkit: a starting point for developers to create new programming languages that are designed to run on the LuaJIT virtual machine.LINK
FingerprinterJS: a tiny JavaScript library for creating a unique and stable identifier for a web browser.LINK
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