Microsoft is ending support for Microsoft SE in October, Apple is open to significant AI acquisitions, and Reddit aims to become a major search engine.
Researchers from Cornell University came up with a way to watermark videos with light to verify the authenticity of video. How startup Fable’s Showrunner AI video generation is catching the confidence of Amazon. A new study shows how cat attacks can easily make LLM go off the rails. And Uber Eats releases a new “Live order chat” feature giving merchants the ability to message customers in real time.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
The White House secured commitments from big tech to create a digital health ecosystem, China’s Cyberspace Administration has security concerns over Nvidia’s H20 chip, and Google is using AI to determine users’ age.
Ahead of Meta’s Q2 earnings, Mark Zuckerberg published a vague vision for “personal superintelligence”. Sensor Tower shows an increase in downloads for generative AI apps. Are the days of console exclusivity for games coming to a close? And with the release of Windows on Arm versions of Adobe’s popular creator apps is there enough reason to get people to consider a Windows Arm laptop?
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
YouTube updates ad policy on profanity, Spotify requires UK users to age verify for explicit content,Minnesota activates National Guard after major cyberattack.
Cash App launches a new payment option that supports Apple Pay and Google Pay for the first time. Elgato has launched the Facecam 4K webcam that allows users to attach 49mm lens filters. OpenAI introduces a new Study Mode feature that lets students be queried by an LLM instead of just regurgitating information. And we test our understanding of texting etiquette.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Joe.
Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode is an experimental AI feature for web browsing, Tea’s data breach is much worse than previously thought, and Anthropic rate limits commence August 28th.