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The company is hoping they would attract new customers amid privacy concerns over current models, The Information says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI revealed six new incidents, wherein the models it was testing acted on their own and behaved in concerning ways it didn't expect, in a post about how it was adopting a new framework for "misalignment reports." -The Oversight Board is once again pushing Meta to address the flood of AI-generated content on its platform. -GMO Internet Group unveiled what it calls Japan's first "humanoid ambulance" on the streets of Tokyo this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The Information says Meta could unveil the new model dubbed Luna at its upcoming annual Connect developer conference scheduled on September 23 and 24. -Federal prosecutors disclosed Binance's alleged role in the scheme in a forfeiture complaint that they say sent $1.5 billion to Iran via a series of interrelated digital wallets. -Nitter is an open-source platform that allows people to read posts without being logged into X or having an X account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's worth getting depends on how many and what kind of Apple devices you have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-On Monday, the IFPI launched the Streaming Integrity Initiative, what it calls "a new industry commitment to combat streaming fraud and protect artists, songwriters and fans from its harm." -Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI have moved to dismiss a lawsuit against Apple. -Apple's streaming service collected eight Primetime Emmy awards last night, including six for Widow's Bay and two for Pluribus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The unnamed software will be built around licensed music from UMG artists who want to participate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A group of researchers told The Wall Street Journal that the agents, which the company was testing in a supposed sandbox environment, reportedly broke into RubyGems, which is a community-run packaging service for Ruby programs and libraries. - In an interview with Fortune, Sam Altman said that "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public." -Those waiting for the next Roadster model have been left in the dark since the prototype's initial reveal in 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-"Biological misuse" is just one flavor of troubling AI usage the report documents, but it's of growing importance because newer models like Fable 5 are increasingly good at helping with scientific research. -Chatbot makers will be required to implement mental health resources, safety protocols in case a minor discusses self harm and notifications for parents if a child turns off safety settings. -The deal with UMG is the first that ElevenLabs has cut with a major label, and the new platform will be distinct from its ElevenMusic AI music generation software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-NASA and IBM found it was particularly adept at identifying areas on the lunar surface where there might be ice. -The price hike on the Trump phone was first reported by The Verge, which also noted that the provider didn't make an announcement about it and just quietly updated its website. -FT is the country's second-largest teachers union and is describing the deal as a "first of its kind" effort that seeks to fill in some gaps from the lack of any real federal guardrails for AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The US accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of extracting "billions of tokens across millions of exchanges/requests" from American models, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, since 2024. -Suno's v6 series consists of three models: v6, v6-wild and v6-mini. The first of those is Suno's new flagship offering. -OpenAI announced that it found a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, but the news has been marred by a debate over whether the company acted based on unpublished research from other parties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stryker says its SportSuite Vision software for the headset received De Novo authorization from the FDA in July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Samsung and TSMC will join Intel in adopting ASML's latest High NA extreme ultraviolet lithography chip fab machines. -You Can See Everything is the latest bizarre chapter in Holmes' story from directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. -Based on the limited info in the teaser, it's hard to say exactly what Retroid's upcoming multi-display gadget will look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wireless earbuds are now the default option for everyday listening, whether you're heading out for a commute, fitting in a workout or just watching videos at home. Here are four of this year's favorites... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's also letting people upload multiple photos at once when reacting to a post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A flashy demo video the company released alongside the launch shows Astra handling everything from 3D modeling to building slideshows, and often taking care of multiple tasks across different domains at the same time. -It has always seemed like the Vision Pro was pointing toward a very interesting hypothetical future and was just waiting for the right situation to come along. A complex surgery is a good example of what that right situation could be. -Rather than primarily relying on data from numerical weather prediction models, which include a six-hour lag, WeatherNext 3 incorporates live satellite data, which gives the model "a rich, continuously updating view of the atmosphere." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company is also asking almost all remote employees to move to an office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A group of climbers set out to climb Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, California thinking it would only take them eight hours, because that's what Google's Gemini chatbot told them. - Mayor Mamdani said this move was made to protect "human connection" in classrooms, suggesting that kids should develop problem-solving and social skills via teachers and peers instead of chatbots. -A service called Nexus went live to sell these documents and many others, which included medical cards, employment records and residence cards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-Along with continuing to make its synonymous action cameras and run its subscription and cloud services, GoPro plans to move into defense, government, robotics and aerospace sectors. -The BT subsidiary Openreach is in the process of replacing its legacy copper network with full-fiber broadband, with plans to connect 30 million residences by the end of the decade. -Meta's release comes less than a week after Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its own audio model that boasts similar capabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the bright side, Apple is more certainly working on an Apple Watch overhaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-This feature could prove very useful if you get bumped off your original flight, say due to your earlier reservation getting delayed or due to a cancellation, and transferred to a later schedule. -Santos allegedly bought contracts on Kalshi indicating that he would not attend this year's State of the Union speech after weather disrupted his travel plans. -According to the FTC, Amazon made billions of dollars by "secretly" inflating its rates for more than six years, according to a statement from the FTC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The setting will prevent your posts from being recommended in the algorithmic "discover" feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

- Google explained that it updates Maps "to reflect name changes in official government sources." -A treasure trove of Steam data has been leaked, which seemingly contains everything that was published on Steam between 2003 and 2013. -NASA says that the Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine that will bring us closer than ever before to answering humanity's most profound questions about our cosmic history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are times when turning off Find My is necessary, but you should always have it on otherwise to keep your phone safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SpeedoIQ is a tiny tracker that sits inside a pair of Vanguard goggles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-X said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." -PayPal was worth as much as $320 billion at its highest market value during the height of the COVID pandemic. -Bluesky, unlike X and other platforms, doesn't allow people to have private accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - GoPro is trying something different; Apple has confirmed when it'll pull back the curtain and officially reveal its latest iPhones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The report goes into how the different systems in OpenAI's training system failed and what behaviors from the agents it was testing resulted in those failures. - Meta executives were reportedly influenced by startups, including some they observed in Asia, that had structured themselves around AI. -The company says Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is more adept at speech-to-text than earlier models, with greater precision and the ability to automatically detect more than 85 languages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Competitor Redfin will re-enter the real estate listing market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-SpaceX said the Louisiana facility will be massive with five launch complexes, each with two launch pads. -A now-abandoned plan would have allowed companies to immediately know that they were dealing with a masked address, making the feature essentially useless. -One bit of internal research that surfaced during the trial Tuesday was from a 2023 slide deck prepared by Instagram designers and others about teen safety on the app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The nine individuals are accused of 'severely damaged our nation's image,' prosecutors said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-There's no guarantee that anything Threads tries out will get a formal release, but providing more support for content creators to leverage the platform appears to be a priority for the platform. -ESPN is increasing the cost of every single one of its subscription plans. -As part of the settlement, Redfin has to reenter the ILS market and make commitments that would ensure its competitiveness, including a relaunch with "significantly more listings." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Authorities gave them permission to deploy thousands of robotaxis in Clark County. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-During the second annual World Humanoid Robot Games that kicked off in Beijing on Saturday, the Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot completed the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds. -OpenAI giant also called for "strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle, specifically to prevent frontier models from circumventing internal security controls." -While AI slop has plagued just about every social media platform, LinkedIn has become notorious for being particularly filled with AI-generated posts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's part of the company's latest push to make more business-friendly AI tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal sent a sharply worded letter to the company's top executives questioning them about how the app has tested, and in some cases, withheld, key safety features. -GitHub said that since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. -Bilibili's changes are part of an explicit strategy to get Western viewers posting and watching videos on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dozens of states accuse the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The Aletta robot uses near-infrared light and Doppler ultrasound to identify a vein and then automates the other processes of a blood draw, such as applying a tourniquet, inserting and disposing of a needle and placing a bandage on the patient. -The study looked at 233,809 fatal collisions between 2017 and 2022, comparing the incidence rate of car accidents on album release days against the 10 days immediately before and after each release. -NASA has announced that Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft will no longer dock with the satellite and boost it to a higher altitude as planned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company wants users to be able to watch and listen to conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Politico's sources said lawyers at the US House Office of Legislative Counsel are spending more time reviewing and rewriting them than they would have if they had written the bills from scratch. -In one case, reported by 404 Media, a CBP agent was spotted recording with his glasses despite the policy. In another instance, a member of Border Patrol wore a pair to an immigration raid. -On X, replying is weighted much more heavily than liking, despite replies accounting for under seven percent of interactions on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Wyoming woman said that her stepfather created thousands of fake sexually explicit images of her through the AI chatbot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Claims from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey say that Meta violated state consumer protection laws by intentionally misleading the public about the safety of its apps. -This memorandum applies to all AI models from ByteDance, including those used on TikTok, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, CapCut and Dreamina.  -Reddit describes the test as a "limited experiment" affecting "a sample of posts across select communities" on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-Several departures have led to concerns that the company is ignoring safety in favor of growth -As first reported by the Washington Post, the woman, named as Jane Doe 4 in the lawsuit, said that her stepfather used Grok to create "thousands of sexually explicit images of her as a child and traded them online." -The company said its text watermarking will not have easy-to-see visuals, will not be distinguishable to the people who read it and will not be adding hidden characters to the text. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The company said it's adopting a new peak and off-peak pricing to "allocate resources more reasonably," starting on August 16 -Most users will never be targeted by mercenary spyware, but they're also difficult to detect and prevent.” -Traditionally, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, one of the main laws that criminalizes hacking, unauthorized computer access and other cyberattacks, has applied to private companies and individuals alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices