Sean Hollister / The Verge:
In the final hearing on remedies after Epic’s antitrust win, the judge says he’ll “tear the barriers down” on Google’s app store but won’t “micromanage” Google — Judge James Donato just made it crystal-clear: Google will pay.
CFIUS fines T-Mobile a record $60M for allegedly failing to prevent and report unauthorized access to sensitive data after its Sprint merger in 2020 (Reuters)
Reuters:
CFIUS fines T-Mobile a record $60M for allegedly failing to prevent and report unauthorized access to sensitive data after its Sprint merger in 2020 — A powerful U.S. committee that scrutinizes foreign investment for national security risks fined T-Mobile (TMUS.O) $60 million …
A look at Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which recently emerged from stealth with a $31M seed led by a16z and whose FLUX.1 model powers Grok’s image generator (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
A look at Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which recently emerged from stealth with a $31M seed led by a16z and whose FLUX.1 model powers Grok’s image generator — Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards.
Anthropic says prompt caching, which enables developers to cache frequently used context between API calls, is now available in public beta on its API (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Anthropic says prompt caching, which enables developers to cache frequently used context between API calls, is now available in public beta on its API — Anthropic introduced prompt caching on its API, which remembers the context between API calls and allows developers to avoid repeating prompts.
Google says Iran-backed hacking group APT42 has targeted both Trump and Biden campaigns, as well as Israeli military, government, and diplomatic organizations (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Google says Iran-backed hacking group APT42 has targeted both Trump and Biden campaigns, as well as Israeli military, government, and diplomatic organizations — APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump …
Eric Schmidt says he “misspoke” when he said Google was losing the AI race because it decided that “working from home was more important than winning” (Joseph De Avila/Wall Street Journal)
Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Eric Schmidt says he “misspoke” when he said Google was losing the AI race because it decided that “working from home was more important than winning” — Ex-Google CEO had said the tech company’s work-life balance was ‘more important than winning’
President Biden hosts the first White House Creator Economy Conference, with about 100 startup founders, industry stakeholders, and creators in attendance (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
President Biden hosts the first White House Creator Economy Conference, with about 100 startup founders, industry stakeholders, and creators in attendance — At the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference, the most popular man to drop by was not a TikTok superstar or a YouTube sensation.
The US FTC announces a final rule banning the sale of fake reviews and testimonials, including AI-generated ones, with fines as high as $50K per violation (Danny Gallagher/Engadget)
Danny Gallagher / Engadget:
The US FTC announces a final rule banning the sale of fake reviews and testimonials, including AI-generated ones, with fines as high as $50K per violation — The new rules prohibit the selling of fake and AI-generated reviews and testimonials in several forms.
Cisco reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $13.54B est., and says it’s cutting 7% of its global workforce; CSCO jumps 5%+ after hours (Ari Levy/CNBC)
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Cisco reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $13.54B est., and says it’s cutting 7% of its global workforce; CSCO jumps 5%+ after hours — Cisco shares popped in extended trading on Wednesday after the networking company said it’s cutting 7% of its global workforce …
Images generated by Grok, like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with guns, go viral on X, raising questions about Grok’s guardrails (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Images generated by Grok, like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with guns, go viral on X, raising questions about Grok’s guardrails — xAI’s Grok chatbot now lets you create images from text prompts and publish them to X — and so far, the rollout seems as chaotic …
