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🤖 Google takes another startup out of the AI race
🚨 US government sues TikTok over child privacy
📺 Google pulls AI Olympics ad after backlash
🎬 Meta offers millions for celebrity voices in AI
💻 Nvidia delays next AI chip due to design flaw
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Google takes another startup out of the AI raceLINK
Founders of Character.AI, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, along with other team members, are rejoining Google’s AI unit DeepMind, the companies announced on Friday.
Character.AI reached a $1 billion valuation last year and plans to offer a nonexclusive license of its large language models to Google, which will help fund its growth and the development of personalized AI products.
The founders, who left Google in 2021 due to disagreements about advancing chatbot technologies, are now returning amid a competitive AI landscape and will contribute to DeepMind's research team.
🚨 US government sues TikTok over child privacyLINK
The Department of Justice is suing TikTok for allegedly allowing children under 13 to create accounts without parental consent and collecting extensive data on them, violating US child privacy laws.
The lawsuit claims TikTok enabled kids to join through its "Kids Mode," failed to delete their accounts upon parents' requests, and used deficient age-gating techniques that let youngsters bypass age restrictions.
The DOJ is seeking to prevent future COPPA violations by TikTok and impose civil penalties for each violation, with potential fines of up to $51,744 per infraction per day.
📺 Google pulls AI Olympics ad after backlashLINK
Google has withdrawn its "Dear Sydney" ad from the Olympics after receiving significant backlash from viewers and negative feedback on social media.
The controversial advertisement featured a father using the Gemini AI to write a fan letter to Olympic track star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone on behalf of his daughter, instead of composing it together.
Critics argued that the ad missed the essence of writing a personal fan letter and feared it promoted AI as a substitute for genuine human expression.
🎬 Meta offers millions for celebrity voices in AILINK
Meta is negotiating with celebrities like Awkwafina, Judi Dench, and Keegan-Michael Key to use their voices for its AI assistant, MetaAI, which is akin to Siri and Google Assistant.
The company aims to employ these celebrity voices across various platforms such as Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Ray-Ban Meta glasses, with negotiations currently focusing on usage terms and time limits.
SAG-AFTRA has reportedly agreed on terms with Meta, requiring the company to pay actors and obtain consent for using their AI-generated likeness, potentially resulting in millions of dollars in fees for the celebrities involved.
💻 Nvidia delays next AI chip due to design flawLINK
The production of Nvidia's "Blackwell" B200 AI chips has been delayed by at least three months due to a late-discovered design flaw, according to sources.
The B200 chips are successors to the highly sought-after H100 chips and were expected to power many AI cloud infrastructures, but now face production setbacks.
Nvidia is collaborating with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to address the issue, with large-scale shipments now anticipated in the first quarter of next year.
Other news you might like
Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader. How did it fall so far?.LINK
The New York Times and other top news sites block OpenAI's new SearchGPT web crawling bot.LINK
Nvidia uses Apple Vision Pro to record humans controlling robots for more realistic training data.LINK
Apple is apologizing for one of its ads again.LINK
OpenAI-backed startup Figure teases new humanoid robot ‘Figure 02’.LINK
This new AI modeler can turn pictures into 3D sculptures in seconds.LINK
Latest research and tools
1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation: a GitHub mirror of Tim Berners-Lee's original browser/editor for NeXT computers, allowing access to Hypertext servers, files, and news, with commit dates reflecting original file modifications.LINK
Vimtutor Sequel: enhances the learning experience for Vim users by providing advanced lessons to deepen understanding of the Vim editor, installable via Homebrew or by cloning its repository.LINK
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