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Celebrity Lockets is a new feature where celebrities can engage with their most loyal followers on their home screens.
Read moreMicrosoft brings OpenAI’s smallest open model to Windows users
Microsoft will bring OpenAI's new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, its platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers.
Read moreGoogle says hackers stole its customers’ data by breaching its Salesforce database
Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.
Read moreQwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech
European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.
Read moreNvidia rejects US demand for backdoors in AI chips
Nvidia’s chief security officer has published a blog post insisting that its GPUs “do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.” It comes amid pressure from both sides of the Pacific, with some US lawmakers pushing Nvidia to grant the government backdoors to AI chips, while Chinese officials
Read moreMicrosoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw
Researchers have already found a critical vulnerability in the new NLWeb protocol Microsoft made a big deal about just just a few months ago at Build. It’s a protocol that’s supposed to be “HTML for the Agentic Web,” offering ChatGPT-like search to any website or app. Discovery of the embarrassing
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Read moreClay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation
The AI sales automation startup raised fresh funds, led by CapitalG, just months after its last round.
Read moreFor the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS
This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.
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