Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller told a US judge that Apple’s new 27% fee on purchases made outside its App Store are a good-faith attempt to comply with the law — – Top Apple executive took stand Friday to defend new fee — Epic Games has challenged Apple proposed antitrust remedy
The US DOJ charges two arrested Chinese nationals for allegedly orchestrating a crypto pig butchering scam that laundered at least $73M from defrauded victims (Brendan O’Boyle/Reuters)
Brendan O’Boyle / Reuters:
The US DOJ charges two arrested Chinese nationals for allegedly orchestrating a crypto pig butchering scam that laundered at least $73M from defrauded victims — U.S. authorities charged two Chinese nationals in a cryptocurrency scam that laundered at least $73 million from defrauded victims, the Justice Department said on Friday.
Critics warn the French government’s first-of-its-kind move within the EU to suspend TikTok in New Caledonia amid widespread protests sets a dangerous precedent (Politico)
Politico:
Critics warn the French government’s first-of-its-kind move within the EU to suspend TikTok in New Caledonia amid widespread protests sets a dangerous precedent — An unexpected and drastic measure to cut off access to the app in New Caledonia marks an EU first.
Some researchers say GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites, likely due to inadequate data cleaning (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)
Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review:
Some researchers say GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites, likely due to inadequate data cleaning — Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, some Chinese speakers started to notice something seemed off about this newest version of the chatbot …
Photo editing and sharing app VSCO says it is now profitable, has a user base of 200M worldwide, and has 160K subscribers for its $59.99/year Pro product (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Photo editing and sharing app VSCO says it is now profitable, has a user base of 200M worldwide, and has 160K subscribers for its $59.99/year Pro product — – The photo sharing app wants to move on from ‘VSCO Girl’ meme — VSCO is also launching a new creator hub for influencers
The US SEC will require some financial institutions to notify customers whose personal information was compromised within 30 days of learning about breaches (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
The US SEC will require some financial institutions to notify customers whose personal information was compromised within 30 days of learning about breaches — Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness. — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
Google DeepMind releases its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Google DeepMind releases its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models — Preparing for a time when artificial intelligence is so powerful that it can pose a serious, immediate threat to people, Google DeepMind …
Meta is working on an Instagram feature called Peek that lets users post unedited, authentic pictures that can only be viewed once (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is working on an Instagram feature called Peek that lets users post unedited, authentic pictures that can only be viewed once — Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature that borrows concepts from others — in this case, BeReal and Snapchat.
OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don’t sign it lose all vested equity (Kelsey Piper/Vox)
Kelsey Piper / Vox:
OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don’t sign it lose all vested equity — Why is OpenAI’s superalignment team imploding? — On Monday, OpenAI announced exciting new product news: ChatGPT can now talk like a human.
Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries — Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year.
