Callan Quinn / CoinDesk:
Crypto firm Immutable says it received a Wells notice from the SEC related to the sale of its IMX tokens in 2021, accuses the SEC of “regulation by enforcement” — The firm’s IMX token is down over 13% at $1.16 following the announcement. — Immutable said that it received …
Q&A with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, merging science and AI, advancing AlphaFold, rival labs, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Q&A with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, merging science and AI, advancing AlphaFold, rival labs, and more — While language models are getting better at performing tasks like writing poetry and emails, Jumper is looking forward to an era …
Indonesia bans sales of Pixel smartphones, saying Google must comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones, days after banning iPhone 16 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indonesia bans sales of Pixel smartphones, saying Google must comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones, days after banning iPhone 16 — Indonesia has banned sales of Google Pixel smartphones for failing to meet domestic content requirements, days after blocking Apple’s iPhone 16 …
Chinese researchers linked to the People’s Liberation Army developed an AI model using Llama 2 for potential military use; Meta says such use is “unauthorized” (Reuters)
Reuters:
Chinese researchers linked to the People’s Liberation Army developed an AI model using Llama 2 for potential military use; Meta says such use is “unauthorized” — Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People’s Liberation Army have used Meta’s publicly available Llama model …
Istanbul-based Insider, which offers AI-powered marketing and customer engagement tools, raised a $500M Series E led by General Atlantic, plans a US expansion (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Istanbul-based Insider, which offers AI-powered marketing and customer engagement tools, raised a $500M Series E led by General Atlantic, plans a US expansion — – AI-powered marketing company is aiming for US expansion — Founded in Turkey, company was valued at $2 billion last year
Anthropic says governments should urgently take action on AI policy in the next 18 months and suggests principles for AI regulation that support innovation (Anthropic)
Anthropic:
Anthropic says governments should urgently take action on AI policy in the next 18 months and suggests principles for AI regulation that support innovation — Increasingly powerful AI systems have the potential to accelerate scientific progress, unlock new medical treatments, and grow the economy.
Tel Aviv-based, enterprise-focused cybersecurity startup Noma emerges from stealth with $32M in funding, including a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based, enterprise-focused cybersecurity startup Noma emerges from stealth with $32M in funding, including a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures — Companies are concerned that their eagerness to adopt AI has made them more vulnerable to cyberthreats.
UK data: 1,824 sexual communication with a child offenses occurred on social media in 2023-2024, with Snapchat in 48% of cases and Facebook and Messenger in 12% (Martyn Landi/The Independent)
Martyn Landi / The Independent:
UK data: 1,824 sexual communication with a child offenses occurred on social media in 2023-2024, with Snapchat in 48% of cases and Facebook and Messenger in 12% — The children’s charity said more than 7,000 offences were recorded by police in the last year. — Your support helps us to tell the story
Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook’s former global head of engineering Jay Parikh joins Microsoft’s senior leadership team and will report directly to Satya Nadella (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook’s former global head of engineering Jay Parikh joins Microsoft’s senior leadership team and will report directly to Satya Nadella — – Company struggling to ramp up data centers to meet AI demand — Jay Parikh will report directly to Microsoft CEO Nadella
Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025 “to better align with the schedule of device launches”; major Android releases have been in Q3 or Q4 since 2013 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025 “to better align with the schedule of device launches”; major Android releases have been in Q3 or Q4 since 2013 — Android 16 is launching in Q2 of 2025, which is months earlier than previously expected. — • — TL;DR
