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In today's Techpresso:

🇨🇳 China proposes a new global AI organization

🤖 Tesla’s big bet on humanoid robots may be hitting a wall

🤫 Sam Altman warns ChatGPT therapy is not private

📈 VPN signups spike 1,400% over new UK law

🧠 Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab

💥 Tea app breach exposes 72,000 photos and IDs

🎁 + 17 other news you might like

🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools

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🇨🇳 China proposes a new global AI organization LINK
  • China announced it wants to create a new global organization for AI cooperation to help coordinate regulation and share its development experience and products, particularly with the Global South.
  • Premier Li Qiang stated the goal is to prevent AI from becoming an "exclusive game," ensuring all countries and companies have equal rights for development and access to the technology.
  • A minister told representatives from over 30 countries the organization would promote pragmatic cooperation in AI, and that Beijing is considering Shanghai as the location for its headquarters.
🤖 Tesla’s big bet on humanoid robots may be hitting a wall LINK
  • Production bottlenecks and technical challenges have limited Tesla to building only a few hundred Optimus units, a figure far short of the output needed to meet the company's ambitious targets.
  • Elon Musk’s past claims of thousands of robots working in factories this year have been replaced by the more cautious admission that Optimus prototypes are just “walking around the office.”
  • The Optimus program’s head of engineering recently left Tesla, compounding the project’s setbacks and echoing a pattern of delayed timelines for other big bets like its robotaxis and affordable EV.
🤫 Sam Altman warns ChatGPT therapy is not private LINK
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns there is no 'doctor-patient confidentiality' when you talk to ChatGPT, so these sensitive discussions with the AI do not currently have special legal protection.
  • With no legal confidentiality established, OpenAI could be forced by a court to produce private chat logs in a lawsuit, a situation that Altman himself described as "very screwed up."
  • He believes the same privacy concepts from therapy should apply to AI, admitting the absence of legal clarity gives users a valid reason to distrust the technology with their personal data.
📈 VPN signups spike 1,400% over new UK law LINK
  • The UK's new Online Safety Act prompted a 1,400 percent hourly increase in Proton VPN sign-ups from users concerned about new age verification rules for explicit content websites.
  • This law forces websites and apps like Pornhub or Tinder to check visitor ages using methods that can include facial recognition scans and personal banking information.
  • A VPN lets someone bypass the new age checks by routing internet traffic through a server in another country, a process which effectively masks their IP address and spoofs their location.
🧠 Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab LINK
  • Meta named Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI research scientist who co-created ChatGPT and GPT-4, as the chief scientist for its new Superintelligence Lab focused on long-term AI ambitions.
  • Zhao will set the research agenda for the lab and work directly with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang to pursue Meta’s goal of building general intelligence.
  • The Superintelligence Lab, which Zhao co-founded, operates separately from the established FAIR division and aims to consolidate work on Llama models after the underwhelming performance of Llama 4.
💥 Tea app breach exposes 72,000 photos and IDs LINK
  • The women's dating safety app Tea left a database on Google's Firebase platform exposed, allowing anyone to access user selfies and driver's licenses without needing any form of authentication.
  • Users on 4chan downloaded thousands of personal photos from the public storage bucket, sharing images in threads and creating scripts to automate collecting even more private user data.
  • Journalists confirmed the exposure by viewing a list of the files and by decompiling the Android application's code, which contained the same exact storage bucket URL posted online.

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Trending research and tools

WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding: this paper describes a system that uses Wi-Fi signals to identify and track a person's movements without cameras. LINK
Dwm Commented: an educational version of the dwm window manager that has extra comments in its code to be used as a learning reference, not for active use. LINK
The Sparse Frontier: Sparse Attention Trade-Offs in Transformer LLMs: this paper systematically evaluates the trade-offs between model quality and computational efficiency when using different sparse attention patterns in large language models. LINK

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