‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks
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MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research
MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The data set, called Unsupervised People’s Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 different languages. MLCommons says…
Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity. Warnings floated on social media today about an impending purge at the Centers for…
BioWare hit with layoffs as it shifts to next Mass Effect
BioWare now has fewer than 100 employees after laying off “around two dozen” staffers and shifting others to different projects at EA, Bloomberg reports. The changes follow BioWare’s own “Studio Update” published this week where GM Gary McKay said the studio had “worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues…
Google rolls out a small Pixel Camera 9.7 patch update
Google rolled out a Pixel Camera update today, building off version 9.7 of the app, but there are no new features.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is $200 off, only today
Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority If you’re looking for the best Wear OS smartwatch money can buy, there is no doubt it’s the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra. It’s also one of the most expensive wearables around, though. Luckily, we’re always on the lookout for good deals, and right now, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra…
Google log-in prompts on Android add new layer of security
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority An extra step has been added to the verification process when using Google prompts. After tapping on “Yes, it’s me,” you’ll be asked for a fingerprint, PIN, or other 2FA method to proceed. The new requirement is being seen on version 25.02.34 of Google Play Services on Android. When…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, according to new court filings. In response, lawyers for the plaintiff — the Authors Guild — have filed a motion to compel testimony from Amodei and his Anthropic co-founder, Benjamin Mann. Authors Guild’s lawyers claim that Amodei and Mann,…
Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund
When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her own AI-focused fund, Conviction Partners, she indicated that she was tagging the word “Partners” to the firm’s name because she would eventually bring on other GPs. Now, more than two years later, Guo is being joined by Mike Vernal, who was a partner at Sequoia…
Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project
Apple’s N107 smart glasses would’ve connected to a Mac as a portable virtual screen. While Mark Zuckerberg and Meta press forward with augmented glasses projects buoyed by its million-selling set of smart Ray-Bans, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says that Apple just pulled the plug on an AR glasses project. Codenamed N107, they’re described as something…