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In today's Techpresso:

💻 Apple teams up with Anthropic on AI coding tool

🫠 Google confirms training AI models using opted out web content

📦 Temu halts direct China shipping as tariff loophole closes

🤔 AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns

⚖️ DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business

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🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools

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💻 Apple teams up with Anthropic on AI coding tool LINK
  • Apple is collaborating with Anthropic to create an AI-driven software platform aimed at helping developers write, modify, and check computer instructions using artificial intelligence capabilities.
  • This system, representing an updated version of Apple's Xcode programming environment, leverages Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model and is slated for initial deployment within the company's internal teams.
  • The arrangement with Anthropic expands Apple's network of AI partners, which already involves OpenAI for certain features and might include Google's technology later on.
🫠 Google confirms training AI models using opted out web content LINK
  • A Google executive confirmed the company utilizes publisher content to train its AI search features, even when website owners use controls intending to block this collection.
  • Testimony revealed the specific "Google-Extended" directive only restricts data access for DeepMind's AI development, not impacting material usage by the separate Google Search organization.
  • This distinction creates a difficult choice for website administrators, as standard methods to prevent inclusion in AI summaries might also diminish their site's visibility in regular results.
📦 Temu halts direct China shipping as tariff loophole closes LINK
  • Online retailer Temu modified its US business strategy by discontinuing direct shipments from China following the implementation of stricter regulations on low-value imported goods from overseas.
  • This significant change coincided with the termination of the de minimis provision, an $800 duty-free exemption that previously allowed inexpensive items to enter the country without tariffs.
  • Temu now primarily features products dispatched from warehouses within the United States and is actively recruiting American sellers to navigate the new import costs and trade rules.
🤔 AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns LINK
  • Instagram co-creator Kevin Systrom criticized artificial intelligence firms for prioritizing user interaction through follow-up prompts instead of delivering genuinely helpful information to people asking questions.
  • He argued these methods mirror social media's aggressive expansion techniques, calling it a detrimental force pushing companies down a problematic path focused only on boosting usage numbers.
  • Systrom proposed that chatbot chattiness is a deliberate design choice intended to inflate metrics like time spent, urging AI developers to concentrate on providing high-quality responses.
⚖️ DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business LINK
  • The Department of Justice affirmed its objective to break up Google's extensive advertising technology division, targeting specific components to encourage greater marketplace fairness following an adverse court decision.
  • Specifically, the government agency is petitioning the court to mandate Google sell off its large ad exchange platform and the essential publisher ad server utilized by websites.
  • Google contests this proposed divestiture, arguing the prerequisites demand impractical system development and that the entire sell-off proposal lacks legal foundation and would injure publishers and advertisers.

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Latest research and tools

Connomore64: a real-time Commodore 64 emulator using multiple parallel microcontrollers that can connect to original hardware peripherals. LINK
GitDroid: an Android app store for applications distributed through code hosting platform releases. LINK
ePub-utils: a Python library and command-line tool for inspecting electronic publication (ePub) files directly from your terminal. LINK
Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant Proxy: a tool letting developers use external large language model APIs within JetBrains IDEs by making them appear as locally supported models. LINK
The Algebra of Patterns (Extended Version): it presents a mathematical framework for representing and manipulating various types of patterns. LINK
Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research: researchers should reconsider focusing primarily on achieving artificial general intelligence. LINK

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