Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply — The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply.
Expedia fires its CTO Rathi Murthy and SVP Sreenivas Rachamadugu due to a “violation of company policy”, days after its annual product and partner conference (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Expedia fires its CTO Rathi Murthy and SVP Sreenivas Rachamadugu due to a “violation of company policy”, days after its annual product and partner conference — – Company declined to disclose specific reason for departures — Murthy presented at Expedia’s annual conference this week
A US judge approves Genesis Global Capital’s Chapter 11 repayment plan to return Bitcoin and other tokens to creditors, defeating a challenge by its parent DCG (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)
Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
A US judge approves Genesis Global Capital’s Chapter 11 repayment plan to return Bitcoin and other tokens to creditors, defeating a challenge by its parent DCG — – Genesis defeated a challenge by parent Digital Currency Group — Judge also approved a related settlement with the New York AG
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 (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
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 …
