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📉 TikTok challenger once worth $1B shuts down
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- The California tech startup Flip, a TikTok-esque shopping and reviews app valued at over $1 billion this year, has abruptly shut down its website and mobile application.
- The company combined short-form video with an Amazon-like shopping cart, rewarding users with product discounts for watching and paying creators based on the engagement on their posts.
- In a farewell message, Flip confirmed its closure and listed past achievements, including paying out $13.4 million to content creators and generating $375 million in sales for brands.
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👀 Alibaba develops new AI chip to replace Nvidia
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- Alibaba has designed a new artificial intelligence chip optimized for inference workloads that will support a broader range of use cases than the company’s earlier custom processors.
- The new processor will reportedly be capable of running applications originally written for Nvidia silicon, a feature that could remove the need for making extensive software code changes.
- Alibaba is reportedly using Chinese fabs to build the custom silicon, relying on a combination of legacy foreign-made chipmaking equipment and some of its own homegrown hardware.
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🩺 AI stethoscope detects heart conditions in 15 seconds
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- Researchers developed a smart stethoscope that uses AI to analyze heartbeat and blood flow, diagnosing heart failure, heart valve disease, and abnormal heart rhythms within just 15 seconds.
- The playing card-sized device takes an ECG and records blood flow sounds, sending the data to the cloud where AI algorithms detect subtle problems a human would miss.
- In a UK trial, patients examined with the tool were twice as likely to be diagnosed with heart failure and three times more likely to be diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
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🤝 Meta in talks to use Google and OpenAI AI
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- Meta is in talks with both Google and OpenAI to potentially integrate their Gemini and GPT models, a move that would enhance conversational features in its own AI chatbot.
- These potential partnerships are reportedly a temporary solution, as the company is racing to make its own next-generation model, Llama 5, competitive with other major systems.
- The company confirmed an "all-of-the-above approach" to building AI products, a strategy which already includes using Anthropic models internally to provide teams with coding support.
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⚖️ xAI sues ex-engineer for stealing secrets for OpenAI
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- Elon Musk's xAI is suing former engineer Xuechen Li for allegedly stealing confidential material tied to the Grok chatbot before starting a new role at rival company OpenAI this month.
- The filing claims Li downloaded and concealed files after accepting the job offer and selling $7 million of his xAI stock, later admitting to the theft during an internal meeting.
- Now, xAI is seeking monetary damages plus a restraining order to prevent Li from working for OpenAI, though the artificial intelligence firm itself is not a defendant in the case.
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🤗 Meta adds new AI safeguards for teen users
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- Meta is now training its AI chatbots to no longer engage with teenage users on topics like self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, or inappropriate romantic conversations.
- Access for teens will be limited to a select group of AI characters promoting education, while sexualized options such as “Step Mom” are now blocked for minors.
- The company acknowledged its prior policy was a mistake, which had permitted chatbots to talk with teens about sensitive subjects in ways it originally considered appropriate.
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🛑 Mastodon lacks resources for age verification laws
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- The non-profit Mastodon states it cannot comply with Mississippi’s age verification law because its software does not track users or permanently store their specific age information.
- While the Mastodon 4.4 release allows server administrators to ask for a minimum age at sign-up, the system was not designed to keep this check data on file.
- Mastodon is placing legal responsibility on individual server operators, stating it cannot offer direct operational assistance or monitor the policies of independent Fediverse instances running its software.
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