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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China (interestingengineering.com)

Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches (arstechnica.com)

A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows (phys.org)

Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain (www.techspot.com)

Proton Mail assisted Spanish authorities in identifying and arresting a member of the Catalan independence organization Democratic Tsunami....

OpenAI’s New GPT-4o Model Revolutionizes AI Landscape, Draws Mixed Reviews (articleshubspot.com)

The GPT-4o Model is an upgraded version of the highly successful GPT-4, which has been widely used in OpenAI's flagship product, ChatGPT.

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...

Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)

I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)

Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI

This may be an unpopular opinnion… Let me get this straight. We get big tech corporations to read the articles of the web and then summarize to me, the user the info I am looking for. Sounds cool, right? Yeah, except that why in the everloving duck would I trust Google, Microsoft, Apple or Meta to give me the correct info,...

The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (hai.stanford.edu)

Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)

Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is undermining rivals to its videoconferencing app Teams....

Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option (www.theverge.com)

Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira (investors.squarespace.com)

Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...

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