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🚨 Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France
🔮 Apple may be working on an AI 'personality' to replace Siri on its robots
🤖 Chinese companies showcased 27 humanoid robots alongside Tesla’s Optimus
🎯 Y Combinator backs first defense startup
💼 Amazon is telling its salespeople to trash talk Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🚨 Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in FranceLINK
Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov was detained by French authorities near Paris, and the company insists he has "nothing to hide" regarding any alleged misuse of the platform.
The French government has verified that Durov's arrest relates to a police probe into criminal activities on Telegram, but the Russian Embassy in Paris has not yet received access to him.
Telegram emphasizes its commitment to providing a censorship-free communication platform, despite the lack of default encryption, and seeks a swift resolution to the situation involving its CEO.
🔮 Apple may be working on an AI 'personality' to replace Siri on its robotsLINK
Apple is developing a new AI-based 'personality' for use in upcoming robotic devices, aiming to enhance interactions similar to how Siri functions on existing Apple products.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple's futuristic AI assistant will be more humanlike and could operate on a tabletop product and other future robots, potentially costing under $1,000.
The project is in early development stages with no guarantees of release, while Apple continues to integrate generative AI features into its devices, like iPhones, iPads, and Macs, later this year.
🤖 Chinese companies showcased 27 humanoid robots alongside Tesla’s OptimusLINK
At the Beijing World Robot Conference, Tesla's Optimus humanoid was displayed motionless inside a clear box, facing tough competition from Chinese robots demonstrated by various companies.
The event saw 27 new humanoid robots debut, with significant financial investments in China's robotics industry surpassing 100 billion yuan over the past decade.
Chinese startups like Agibot and Stardust Intelligence showcased robots capable of performing complex tasks, while experts believe Tesla’s and other U.S. companies’ robot technology leads by about one to two years.
🎯 Y Combinator backs first defense startupLINK
Y Combinator is investing in its first defense startup, Ares Industries, which aims to produce smaller and cheaper anti-ship cruise missiles.
YC partner Jared Friedman believes Ares Industries could be as transformative for missiles as SpaceX has been for rockets, potentially providing a strategic advantage in the event of a conflict with China over Taiwan.
Founded in May, Ares Industries has rapidly developed and tested multiple missile prototypes, and expects to deliver functional systems to clients by mid-2025.
💼 Amazon is telling its salespeople to trash talk Google, Microsoft, and OpenAILINK
Internal Amazon sales guidelines express doubt about OpenAI's security, customer support, and focus on corporate needs while criticizing Microsoft and Google AI services.
Amazon urges its AWS sales team to highlight AWS's strengths in cloud infrastructure and AI tools, positioning Bedrock and Amazon's AI chips against competitors.
Despite acknowledging OpenAI's lead in the AI sector, Amazon's guidelines emphasize converting current OpenAI users to AWS by presenting superior value propositions.
Other news you might like
Telegram founder's arrest puts fresh spotlight on encryption.LINK
OpenAI is hiring someone to investigate its own employees.LINK
Uber fined $324M over EU drivers data transfer breach.LINK
"Frontier action model" AI startup H loses three founders months after $220M round.LINK
Apple's M4 Macs may come with 16GB RAM as standard.LINK
Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel.LINK
Scientists to use AI and 1.6 million brain scans for earlier and more accurate dementia diagnoses.LINK
Latest research and tools
Avante.nvim: a Neovim plugin that leverages AI to provide code suggestions and allows users to apply these suggestions to their source files easily, aiming to emulate the Cursor AI IDE experience.LINK
Stripe Data Pipeline: syncs Stripe transaction data with Snowflake or Amazon Redshift warehouses, allowing businesses to better analyze their financial transactions.LINK
Z80 Sans: a font that turns hexadecimal character sequences into readable Z80 assembly language instructions, using advanced font features for easy programming visualization.LINK
Realistic Synthetic UGC: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions: the paper discusses a method for creating lifelike online discussions using a structured approach.LINK
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