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Feds seize 13 more DDoS-for-hire platforms in ongoing international crackdown
Enlarge / A domain seizure notice from the Justice Department, showing the national seals of several…
Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup Boomy, or “tens of thousands” of songs, over suspicion of bots posing as human listeners (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup…
AI vs. Hollywood: Writers battle “plagiarism machines” in union talks
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “an office copy machine in front of a hollywood-style explosion.”…
An interview with Warner Bros. Discovery CTO Avi Saxena and Chief Product Officer Tyler Whitworth on building Max from the ground up, new features, and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: An interview with Warner Bros. Discovery CTO Avi Saxena and Chief Product…
UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market
Enlarge (credit: Sean Gladwell via Getty) The UK competition watchdog is launching a review of the…
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI’s future, and more (Patrick Kulp/Emerging Tech Brew)
Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes…
President Biden meets with AI CEOs at the White House amid ethical criticism
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet the ‘Investing in America…
Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of IEEE’s Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, more (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of…
Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”
Enlarge / Snoop Dogg talking about AI at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference on May…