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In today's Techpresso:

🧠 OpenAI debuts its GPT-4.1 flagship AI model

👀 Apple plans to improve its AI models by privately analyzing user data

💥 Japan orders Google to stop forcing app pre-installs

⚖️ Mark Zuckerberg testifies in Meta antitrust monopoly trial

🫠 "Slopsquatting" attacks are using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries to spread malware

🎁 + 9 other news you might like

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🧠 OpenAI debuts its GPT-4.1 flagship AI model LINK
  • OpenAI introduced GPT-4.1, the successor to GPT-4o, highlighting substantial advancements in coding capabilities, adhering to instructions, processing lengthy contexts, and unveiling their premier nano model.
  • This upgraded artificial intelligence technology surpasses earlier iterations in performance, features an expanded context window, and operates as OpenAI's most rapid and economical version produced yet.
  • The organization presents this new system as a major advancement for practical AI applications, designed specifically to meet developer requirements for building sophisticated intelligent systems effectively.
👀 Apple plans to improve its AI models by privately analyzing user data LINK
  • Apple plans to start analyzing user information directly on devices, aiming to boost its AI model performance while upholding strict user privacy standards through anonymization techniques.
  • This new on-device analysis method is designed to overcome the limitations of synthetic data, which hasn't fully captured the complexity needed for advanced AI training.
  • Scheduled for upcoming beta software updates, this system will locally examine samples from apps like Mail to improve Apple Intelligence features such as message recaps and summaries.
💥 Japan orders Google to stop forcing app pre-installs LINK
  • Japan's antitrust regulator ordered Google to cease forcing smartphone manufacturers to pre-install its search application alongside the essential Google Play store, citing competition law violations.
  • Authorities concluded the technology giant unfairly required its web search program and the vital app marketplace to be packaged together on Android handsets sold within the nation.
  • This directive represents Japan's initial enforcement action against a major worldwide tech firm for such practices, intended to increase choices for device makers and promote competition.
⚖️ Mark Zuckerberg testifies in Meta antitrust monopoly trial LINK
  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in court defending his enterprise against government accusations that it illegally sustained a social media monopoly via strategic company purchases like Instagram.
  • The Federal Trade Commission presented older internal messages, asserting Meta used a "buy-or-bury" tactic by obtaining emerging rivals like WhatsApp to eliminate competitive threats.
  • Meta's legal team countered that the corporation faces substantial contest from platforms like TikTok and warned against undoing previously authorized mergers finalized more than a decade prior.
🫠 "Slopsquatting" attacks are using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries to spread malware LINK
  • Generative AI tools can sometimes invent names for software packages that do not truly exist, an issue described by researchers as AI hallucination during code generation.
  • Studies show certain imagined software library names are often suggested repeatedly by the AI, indicating these invented suggestions are predictable rather than completely random occurrences.
  • Malicious actors could potentially register these fabricated package names with harmful code, deceiving developers who trust AI coding assistants into installing dangerous software onto their systems.

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Other news & articles you might like

  • Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach LINK
  • Intel is selling off a majority stake in chip-maker Altera for $4.46 billion LINK
  • Notion releases an AI-powered email client for Gmail LINK
  • Chinese police accuse NSA of 'advanced' cyberattacks LINK
  • Cohere launches Embed 4: New multimodal search model processes 200-page documents LINK
  • Rippling is trying to serve Deel’s CEO, but bailiffs can’t find him LINK
  • Google DeepMind is hiring a 'post-AGI' research scientist LINK
  • Kraken expands beyond crypto, launches stock trading in the US LINK
  • Nvidia launches GeForce RTX 5060 series with three new GPUs LINK

Latest research and tools

Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct:Towards European LLMs: this paper introduces Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct, two 7-billion-parameter language models designed to advance European capabilities in large language models. LINK
MCP-Shield: scans installed MCP servers to detect security vulnerabilities like tool poisoning attacks, exfiltration channels, and cross-origin escalations. LINK
Chroma: an open-source tool that simulates different types of color blindness over live game screens to help developers improve accessibility. LINK
Watermark segmentation: a deep learning tool that identifies and creates masks for logo watermarks in images to prepare them for removal. LINK
ClipCapsule: a minimalist clipboard manager for Linux allowing management and switching of copied items via keyboard shortcuts, keeping history local. LINK
MooseAgent: A LLM Based Multi-Agent Framework for Automating Moose Simulation: this paper presents MooseAgent, a system using large language models and multiple software agents to automatically run simulations with the MOOSE framework. LINK

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