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Welcome back to Review Week. This week we explore the Justice Department asking Google to sell Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI mistakenly deleting potential evidence in the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI companies are using TikTok ideas for study tools. Let’s do this.
The US Department of Justice argued That Google should withdraw its Chrome browser to help break the company’s illegal monopoly on online search. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google was an illegal monopoly that abused its power over the search business, and the Justice Department’s latest filing suggests that Google’s ownership of Android and Chrome poses a “substantial challenge” to enforcing remedies to make the search market competitive.
Anthropic raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services the primary place where it will train leading generative AI models. Anthropic is also working with Annapurna Labs, the chipmaking division of AWS, to develop next generations of Trainium accelerators, AWS chips specifically designed for training AI models. Amazon’s new cash infusion brings the tech giant’s total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion.
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence In a copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times and the Daily News, the publishers’ lawyers claimed. As part of the lawsuit, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so the attorney could perform searches for copyrighted content in its AI training suites. But in a letter, the publishers’ lawyers said that OpenAI engineers had erased all of the publishers’ search data stored on one of the virtual machines.
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Kim Kardashian meets Optimus: The fashion mogul got some hands-on experience with Tesla’s bipedal, humanoid robot. In videos posted to X, Kardashian asks Optimus to make a heart with his hand, dance as if he were in a luau, and play rock, paper, scissors. Read more
Oura’s valuation exceeds $5 billion: The smart ring maker has received a $75 million investment from glucose device maker Dexcom. This investment, which represents Oura’s Series D funding round, brings the company’s valuation to more than $5 billion. Read more
Let’s throw a party for Partiful: The customizable event planning app that challenges legacy solutions like Evite, Eventbrite, and Facebook Events is a favorite among Gen Z users — and it was just named Google’s Best App of 2024. Read more
Talk to me in your language: Microsoft will soon allow Teams users to clone their voices so they can talk to others in up to nine languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Read more
Hackers pursue Andrew Tate: According to The Daily Dot, hackers hacked into an online course founded by the self-described misogynist influencer, and leaked the data of nearly 800,000 users. Tate is currently under house arrest awaiting trial on human trafficking and rape charges. Read more
What makes a bank a bank? The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled that all digital services that handle a large number of transactions must be subject to bank-like supervision, potentially affecting Apple Pay, Cash App, Google Pay, PayPal and Venmo. Read more
Siri is more conversational: Apple is developing a new version of Siri powered by large, advanced language models, according to sources cited by Bloomberg, in an attempt to catch up with more natural competitors like Google’s Gemini Live. Read more
Benefit from TikTok ideas: Many AI-based study tools take advantage of the “PDF to Brainrot” trend, where the text of a document you upload is read to you in a monotone voice over “strangely satisfying” vertical videos like a game of Subway Surfers. Read more
Topics take a stab at Bluesky: With Bluesky reaching 20 million users, Instagram Threads has begun rolling out a new feature called Personalized Feeds in an effort to capitalize on user demand for more personalization. Read more
ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI has released a free online course designed to help K-12 teachers learn how to bring ChatGPT into their classrooms. But some teachers are concerned about this technology and its potential for distortion. Read more
Do we need another daily word game? I’m a fan of word games and daily crosswords, but it seems like we’re quickly approaching over-saturation in the market. Netflix and TED have launched a new daily word puzzle called TED Tumblewords. Read more
analysis
Please do not upload your x-rays to the chatbot: People often turn to AI-generated chatbots to ask questions about their medical concerns and better understand their health. Since October, X users have been encouraged to upload X-ray images, MRIs, and positron emission tomography (PET) scans to the platform’s chatbot, Grok, to help interpret their results. Medical data is a special category of federally protected data, which, for the most part, only you can choose to circumvent. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should. As Zach Whitaker writes, It’s good to remember that what goes on the Internet never leaves the Internet. Read more
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