Between this demand for a *worldwide* backdoor, and arresting people for social media posts, it increasingly feels like the U.K. is the greatest threat to personal freedom in the world. Certainly more than China for anyone outside China. I hope Apple is prepared to leave.
BIG TECH
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Senators pressure adtech firms over CSAM ad placement
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BREAKING: @MarshaBlackburn and @SenBlumenthal have sent letters to adtech vendors expressing "grave" concern after @AdalyticsHQ researchers found adtech firms enabled ads on known CSAM websites. Letters also sent to Google, Amazon, DoubleVerify & @integralads
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Meta FAIR Open Source Releases and Impact Overview
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More on our newest releases and impact of the open source work developed by Meta FAIR https://
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DeepSeek Reaches 30k Followers on Hugging Face
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almost 30k followers on HF https://
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YouTube Auto-Play Strategy Threatens Competing Streaming Platforms
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The moment YouTube figures out to simply auto-play the full movie after 15 clips, all other streaming platforms are finished.
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GitHub’s Self-Improving Copilot Signals AI’s Evolution
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GitHub's self-improving agents and LinkedIn's smart job matching show AI shifting from static tools to dynamic helpers, while companies restructure teams around AI-first products. Here's your daily AI news briefing for February 7th, 2025: GitHub Launches Self-Improving Copilot
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Google Launches Gemini 2.0 Pro: Strongest Model with 2M Token Context
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3/ Google’s Gemini 2.0 Pro arrived—their strongest model yet It’s Google's best model for coding performance and complex prompts, with a 2M token context window, the longest in its category. Available now in Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Gemini App Advanced.
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OpenAI Launches o3-mini: Cost-Efficient Reasoning Model for Science and Math
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4/ OpenAI launches o3-mini, its most cost-efficient reasoning model yet o3-mini is optimized for science, math, and coding with fast speed and precision. Many in the community find it impressive, even better than o1 in some use cases. o3-mini is available in ChatGPT.
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Top AI News from the Week: OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Mistral, Google
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Top AI news from this week that you can't miss, We summarized everything from OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Mistral, Google, and more. Here's everything you need to know: