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In today's Techpresso:

📱 Google quietly released app to run AI models locally

🚗 Elon Musk is lobbying lawmakers on driverless vehicle rules

💥 Google DOJ clash over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments

🏴‍☠️ Amazon Fire Sticks enable "billions" in streaming piracy

🚨 White House probes Trump Chief of Staff phone hack

🤖 OpenAI says human interaction rivals ChatGPT super assistant

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📱 Google quietly released app to run AI models locally LINK
  • Google introduced Google AI Edge Gallery, an Android app letting users run open AI models from Hugging Face directly on phones, independent of internet access.
  • This experimental software allows generating images, answering questions, or writing code via on-device processing, and includes a Prompt Lab for single-turn tasks.
  • Available from GitHub as an Alpha release, the gallery offers downloadable models like Google’s Gemma 3n for offline use, with performance varying by hardware.
🚗 Elon Musk is lobbying lawmakers on driverless vehicle rules LINK
  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk is actively lobbying U.S. lawmakers by directly contacting Congress members to establish a clear regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.
  • He is involved in discussions about revising a May 15 bill, which creates a basic framework for autonomous vehicles, aiming for action before July 4.
  • This push for federal rules is important as Tesla prepares its Robotaxi service launch and seeks approval for Cybercabs without steering wheels or pedals.
💥 Google DOJ clash over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments LINK
  • In closing arguments, Google and DOJ lawyers dueled over its search deals and how the rise of AI could change the Internet as we know it.
  • The DOJ is asking the judge to limit Google's business dealings and force a divestment of the Chrome browser to address its search monopoly.
  • Testimony revealed fears that Mozilla could be destroyed if its Google default search provider placement deal ends, a key point in closing arguments.
🏴‍☠️ Amazon Fire Sticks enable "billions" in streaming piracy LINK
  • An Enders Analysis report claims Amazon Fire Sticks enable streaming piracy worth "billions of dollars," specifically identifying this hardware as a significant "piracy enabler."
  • This research details how Amazon Fire Sticks help fuel extensive illegal viewing of live programs like sporting events, attracting tens of thousands of pirate viewers.
  • While the study highlights Amazon Fire Sticks, it also notes technologies from Google, Microsoft, and Facebook contribute to an "industrial scale of theft" in streaming.
🚨 White House probes Trump Chief of Staff phone hack LINK
  • The FBI is probing how Trump's Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, was impersonated in fraudulent messages and calls targeting prominent political and business contacts.
  • Wiles reportedly claimed her personal phone was hacked to get these contacts, with attackers using spear phishing and possibly AI tools to deepfake her voice.
  • Officials assess the campaign, seeking money or political favors, as cybercriminal fraud, not foreign nation espionage, despite the high-level White House target.
🤖 OpenAI says human interaction rivals ChatGPT super assistant LINK
  • OpenAI plans for ChatGPT to become a super assistant, a personalized gateway handling diverse tasks and acting on behalf of users across many digital channels.
  • In its competitive "broader game," the company views not just other AIs but also "interactions with real people" as rivals for this future assistant.
  • This competitive view means the AI is designed to compete with "interactions with real people" for daily tasks, challenging existing search engines and browsers.

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Trending research and tools

Asdf Overlay: a high-performance in-game overlay library for Windows that draws on games, can display a browser, and blocks game input, all without performance loss. LINK
The Book of Secret Knowledge: a large collection of lists, guides, tools, and hacks for system administrators, DevOps, pentesters, and security researchers. LINK
Best of Best of the Worst: a silly, simple ranking system created for personal amusement and fan entertainment. LINK
AI Peer Reviewer: an AI system using multiple agents to analyze manuscripts, provide feedback, and generate peer review reports. LINK
Model-Preserving Adaptive Rounding: it likely describes a technique for adaptively rounding numbers in a model to preserve its original performance. LINK

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