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Apple Plans to Boost AI Using Private User Data Analysis

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Following criticism of its AI tools—particularly for weak notification summaries—Apple on Monday outlined efforts to enhance its AI models by privately analyzing user data, supplemented with synthetic data. Apple to Boost AI Performance with Differential Privacy, Using Synthetic Data While Safeguarding User Privacy Apple explained that it will use a technique called “differential privacy,” which […]

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ChatGPT Was the World’s Most Downloaded App in March

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In March, ChatGPT became the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for the first time, surpassing longtime leaders Instagram and TikTok. According to Appfigures, the app saw a 28% increase in downloads from February, reaching 46 million new installs—marking its biggest month yet. Instagram slipped to second place, with TikTok landing in third. ChatGPT Downloads Spike

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Law Professors Support Authors in Copyright Lawsuit Against Meta Over AI

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A group of copyright law professors has submitted an amicus brief supporting the authors suing Meta for allegedly using their e-books without permission to train its Llama AI models. Filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (San Francisco Division), the brief criticizes Meta’s fair use argument as an unprecedented

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YouTube Expands its AI Fake Detection to Top Creators

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On Wednesday, YouTube announced the expansion of its pilot program aimed at identifying and managing AI-generated content that mimics the likeness, including faces, of creators, artists, and other prominent figures. The company also expressed its support for the NO FAKES ACT, legislation targeting AI-generated replicas that simulate someone’s image or voice to mislead others and

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Meta Rolls O ut Limited Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger

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Meta is launching Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger, providing a default experience with built-in safety features for younger users. Initially available in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada, the feature will expand to more countries over time. These accounts were first introduced on Instagram last September, following increased pressure from U.S. lawmakers for social

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AI Crawlers Have Led to a 50% Increase in Wikimedia Commons’ Bandwidth Usage

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The Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia and several other crowdsourced knowledge projects, reported on Wednesday that multimedia download bandwidth from Wikimedia Commons has risen by 50% since January 2024. According to a blog post published Tuesday, this surge isn’t driven by human users but by automated scrapers gathering data to train AI models. “Our infrastructure

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Researchers Suggest OpenAI Trained its Models on Paywalled O’Reilly Books

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OpenAI has faced multiple accusations of using copyrighted content without permission to train its AI models. A new paper from the AI Disclosures Project, an organization focused on AI transparency, makes a serious claim that OpenAI has increasingly relied on non-public, unlicensed books to train its advanced AI models. AI models work as sophisticated prediction

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TikTok is Discontinuing its Instagram Rival, TikTok Notes

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TikTok is shutting down its Instagram-like app, TikTok Notes, on May 8. The photo-sharing platform, which was launched for testing last year in Canada, Australia, and Vietnam, is being discontinued. Users of TikTok Notes are being informed of the decision and redirected to ByteDance-owned Lemon8, a move that makes sense given the similarities between the

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Mark Cuban Supports Skylight, a TikTok Alternative Powered by Bluesky’s Underlying Technology

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Skylight, a startup challenging TikTok with a more open alternative, is launching its mobile app to the public on Tuesday after just 10 weeks of development. Supported by Mark Cuban and other investors, Skylight joins a growing list of apps built on the AT Protocol—the same technology behind the social network Bluesky and several other

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ChatGPT isn’t the Only Chatbot Attracting More Users

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app, but competitors are gaining traction, according to analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. Similarweb, which tracks web traffic to chatbot platforms, has observed steady growth among rivals like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot. In March, Gemini’s daily web visits averaged 10.9 million, a 7.4%

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