News Corp embraces AI Content Licensing, Gemini enables Chrome hijacking, and OpenAI walks back Pentagon deal 🎖️

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AI News 📰

  • News Corp struck an AI deal with Meta reportedly worth up to $150M, calling out news orgs.’ new role as primarily an “AI input company”. – source

  • Researchers at Anthropic, ETH Zurich, and MATS showed LLMs can de-anonymize “pseudonymous” users at scale by matching writing and behavioral signals with surprising accuracy. – source

  • OpenAI is developing an alternative to Microsoft’s GitHub, according to a report from The Information. – source

  • Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead stepped down after the company’s major AI push, adding to a growing list of leadership reshuffles as big orgs race to scale model teams and ship consumer products at speed. – source

  • Sam Altman said OpenAI’s Pentagon deal was amended to limit surveillance use cases, looked opportunistic and ‘sloppy’ amid backlash. – source

  • A high-severity bug in Google Chrome allowed malicious extensions to hijack its Gemini Live AI panel and inherit privileges they were never meant to have. - source

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Robots in the Wild 🤖

  • Two Federal Reserve officials said they don’t expect AI to cause major near-term economic upheaval, reflecting a more cautious “AI augments workers” stance amid louder automation fears. – source

  • The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case that would have challenged the rule that purely AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, reinforcing the current “human authorship required” stance. – source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

  • An investigation into Meta smart glasses found that any recorded content may be reviewed by contracted workers at a Kenya-based company called Sama, who annotate that data for AI improvements – source

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

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Last week we highlighted the launch of nano-banana. This week we’re highlighting some potential game-changing rumors around Apple’s AI efforts:

  • Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork with deeper “connectors” to everyday office tools (including Google Workspace, DocuSign, and WordPress), pushing Claude further into multi-step, cross-app knowledge work. – source

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Last week we spotlighted one of a feature in TVNewsCheck on the rise of AI browsers. This week we’re sharing News Corp’s take on AI and the future of news content, per The Guardian.

News Corp partners with Meta for AI ‘Input’, per The Guardian

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