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💥 OpenAI buys Jony Ive's AI startup for $6.5B
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- OpenAI will acquire Jony Ive’s AI startup io, focused on designing AI-powered products, through a $6.5 billion all-equity deal expected to close this summer.
- Approximately 55 io staff, including engineers and researchers, will join the company, while LoveFrom operates independently with it as a customer and stakeholder.
- This transaction places Jony Ive and his design firm LoveFrom in charge of creative control over the future look and feel of OpenAI's products.
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🔊 Amazon AI launches short audio product summaries
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- Amazon is testing AI-powered audio product summaries featuring "AI-powered shopping experts" discussing key product features, customer reviews, and web information.
- Users access these short-form audio clips via a "Hear the highlights" button, designed for a conversational, discussion-style way to get product details.
- The feature uses large language models to generate scripts from reviews and web data, now available for select products to some U.S. customers.
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💸 Google is bringing ads to AI Mode
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- Google is testing advertisements that will appear "where relevant" below and "integrated into" AI Mode responses within its AI-powered Google Search experience.
- Advertisers using Performance Max, Shopping, and Search campaigns with “broad match” are eligible for their ads to show in AI Mode for U.S. users.
- Alongside AI Mode, Google will expand Search and Shopping ads in its AI Overviews feature on desktop in the U.S., following an earlier mobile test.
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🛡️ Signal now blocks Windows Recall screenshots
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- Signal's updated Windows 11 client now activates screen security by default, preventing Microsoft’s Recall from taking screenshots of secured chats on your computer.
- Microsoft's Recall feature currently lacks an API for app developers to opt out sensitive content, potentially archiving information from applications like Signal by default.
- Signal employs existing DRM, similar to what blocks Netflix screenshots, for screen security, while calling on operating system vendors like Microsoft for better developer privacy tools.
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🫠 Database exposes 184 million login credentials
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- A security researcher discovered an unsecured Elastic database holding 184 million records, including usernames and plaintext passwords for a wide array of online services.
- The massive trove of exposed data included login details for Apple, Facebook, and Google, plus accounts connected to multiple governments, highlighting serious security risks.
- While the source of this repository remained unidentified, access to its 184 million login credentials was quickly shut down after the hosting company was alerted.
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