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Anthony Ha / Engadget:A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads  —  Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the…

Lewis Gordon / The Verge:How Saudi Arabia's investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as it aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports  —  With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the…

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:Algorithmic trading firm XTX Markets announces the $10M AI-MO Prize for a public AI model than can win a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad  —  AI isn't smart enough to win a gold medal at the math…

Mayumi Hirosawa / Nikkei Asia:The G7 agrees on comprehensive international guidelines for generative AI, covering both developers and users, expected to be approved as soon as this month  —  Principles urge developers and users to combat misinformation …

Sean Hollister / The Verge:The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systemically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including those by Pichai  —  On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally…

Reuters:Sources: EU lawmakers can't agree on how to regulate systems like ChatGPT, with foundation models becoming the main hurdle in talks over the proposed AI Act  —  EU lawmakers cannot agree on how to regulate systems like ChatGPT, in a threat to…

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:The US, UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance  —  - US, Australian and UK set to test sonar data processed by AI …

Mia Sato / The Verge:Meta says it is updating child safety features after a series of WSJ reports, including expanding its list of terms, phrases, and emojis related to child safety  —  In a blog post published today, Meta says it's expanding and updating…

Emily Baker-White / Forbes:An interview with Guillaume Verdon, founder of stealth AI startup Extropic who is behind the @BasedBeffJezos persona at the center of effective accelerationism  —  Forbes has learned that Guillaume Verdon, the founder of stealth…

Platformer:Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations  —  Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in…

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:Meta announces Seamless Communication, a suite of AI translation models that aim to enable more natural and authentic communication across languages  —  Meta AI researchers announced on Thursday that they have developed a new…

TechCrunch:Filing: hackers accessed 0.1% of user accounts in 23andMe's data breach that the company disclosed in October 2023; 23andMe reported 14M+ customers in May 2023  —  Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around…

Bloomberg:An in-depth look at China's efforts to help Huawei build a self-sufficient chip supply chain via a network of enterprises backed by Shenzhen's investment fund  —  Less than five years after US sanctions nearly crippled Huawei Technologies Co.,…

Bloomberg:Amazon signs a SpaceX contract for three Falcon 9 rocket launches, set to begin in mid-2025, to help put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation into orbit  —  - Amazon's Project Kuiper has been delayed by rocket setbacks  — Company also…

Jez Corden / Windows Central:Phil Spencer says Microsoft has “no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo” after Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said Microsoft wants to target “every screen”  —  In our exclusive interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO…