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In today's Techpresso:

💬 Meta is testing AI chatbots that can message you first

📜 The letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online

☁️ Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor

🧠 OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever now leads Safe Superintelligence

🚫 iOS 26 brings a new spam filter for messages

🎁 + 10 other news you might like

🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools

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💬 Meta is testing AI chatbots that can message you first LINK
  • Meta is experimenting with new artificial intelligence agents on its social platforms that can proactively initiate a conversation with a person without being prompted first.
  • These conversational programs are part of a project to boost user engagement by referencing past discussions and asking relevant questions to keep the dialogue going.
  • The company has set strict rules for when the bots can reach out, with the goal of increasing time spent on its apps and creating new revenue opportunities.
📜 The letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online LINK
  • The Department of Justice sent letters to major tech firms like Google and Apple, assuring them they would not face penalties for violating the TikTok ban law.
  • These documents, obtained through a public records request, promise to release the companies from any responsibility for failing to comply with the anti-TikTok legislation.
  • The government also committed to legally defending the corporations, vowing to intervene in any lawsuits attempting to enforce the sanctions associated with the new regulation.
☁️ Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor LINK
  • Apple explored creating its own cloud platform for developers, codenamed Project ACDC, to offer a more efficient in-house alternative to established services from Amazon and Google.
  • A primary motivation was performance, as executives believed Apple silicon could deliver superior artificial intelligence processing for a much more affordable price than current cloud providers.
  • The venture's current status is unclear following the 2023 departure of the executive championing it, though talks about the project reportedly continued into early 2024.
🧠 OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever now leads Safe Superintelligence LINK
  • OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever has become the new chief executive of Safe Superintelligence, stepping into the position after Meta hired away co-founder Daniel Gross.
  • The leadership change follows Meta's unsuccessful acquisition attempt, prompting the technology giant to poach the startup's former CEO as part of its aggressive talent strategy.
  • This high-profile recruitment underscores an intensifying conflict for top researchers between major tech companies, as Meta spends heavily to overcome its internal AI development setbacks.
🚫 iOS 26 brings a new spam filter for messages LINK
  • The upcoming iOS 26 update introduces a new capability in the Messages app that will automatically screen your incoming texts for potential spam communications.
  • Once you enable the feature, it silences notifications for suspected junk messages and also hides them inside a separate folder within the application.
  • You can still access these filtered texts and have the option to manage screening separately for both unknown senders and identified spam content.

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Other news & articles you might like

  • Meta's advanced AI ambitions leads to heavy reliance on Chinese researchers LINK
  • Apple reverts China slump, sees first iPhone quarterly growth in two years [report] LINK
  • H&M deploys AI 'twins' to model clothes LINK
  • EU says it will continue rolling out AI legislation on schedule LINK
  • Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because 'there are no customers' LINK
  • Xbox exec suggests people use AI to lessen the pain of being laid off LINK
  • Google DeepMind plans to give robots an ‘inner voice’ to make them smarter LINK
  • YouTube in ‘productive discussions’ with Trump over Jan. 6 ban lawsuit LINK
  • Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users LINK
  • AI helps couple have baby after 18 years of infertility LINK

Latest research and tools

Zig: a discussion about a controversial change to the programming language's standard library concerning how it handles writing data. LINK
High-fidelity simultaneous speech-to-speech translation: this new system translates speech into another language in real-time, while making the translation sound like the original speaker. LINK
Tower of Time: a time-traveling tower defense game where you defend your base against enemies using the power to rewind time and rebuild your strategy. LINK
Yurei: an open-source social media researcher that uses artificial intelligence and YouTube to find and analyze information. LINK
A Rust-TypeScript integration: a web app framework combining a high-performance Rust backend with a type-safe TypeScript frontend to ensure data is handled consistently between them. LINK
FossFLOW: an open-source app to create beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams that runs entirely in your browser and saves all data locally. LINK

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