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Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away

Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.

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Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.

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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.

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Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises

Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.

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Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid

The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.

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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon

Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.

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The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.  —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their…

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Guardoc Health processes clinical documentation using Amazon Nova models

Guardoc Health says it processes over one million clinical documents daily using Amazon Nova models through Bedrock. Bringing AI into clinical documentation comes down to a specific kind of risk calculation. Get it wrong and the errors compound into denied Medicare claims under the Patient-Driven Payment Model, audit fines, litigation exposure, and in the worst […] The post Guardoc Health processes clinical documentation using Amazon Nova models appeared first on AI News.

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Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

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Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix

Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK Hynix, sharing tips with his coworkers on…

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Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them

Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.

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Armenia’s AI Bet Is Not Chip Manufacturing. It Is Compute Sovereignty

Armenia is not a big country. It’s not a wealthy country. It’s not a famous country. And yet, it has become not only a consumer of different AI products akin to Clideo subtitles generator for video editing, or giants like OpenAI, but also entered the headlines of global news for several reasons, not the least […] The post Armenia’s AI Bet Is Not Chip Manufacturing. It Is Compute Sovereignty appeared first on AI News.

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Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.

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PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

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Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.

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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

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OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…