The company is now suing another company, as well
Epic Games, the company behind Epic Games Store that has been accused of violating Google’s anti-trust provisions, said it has now reached 10 million installs on Samsung’s phones against a target of 100 million by the end of the year. Epic Games Store claims it now requires “an exceptionally onerous 21-step process” to download a third-party app store onto a Samsung phone.
The Three mile Island nuclear plant is going to power Microsoft’s data centers
Microsoft has signed a deal with Constellation Energy to buy nuclear power for data centre operations in the US. The agreement will allow Microsoft to run its data centers on “clean, carbon-free energy”. The company’s data centres, which are used for cloud computing and artificial intelligence programs, will be able to run again after the restart of the Three Mile Island power plant.
Major questions for research have arisen from the rise of some tools
Companies that invest heavily in responsible AI research are likely to have a “race to the bottom” in generative AI, according to a study published in the Nature. The study found that large AI companies didn’t have incentives to apply it as they wanted open access for their models. It analysed papers presented at a variety of AI conferences between 1995 and 2020.
Is the man a national security risk?
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted about the alleged assassination attempt of former US President Donald Trump, calling it “racially hateful”. “There are two different kinds of people – those who don’t want to be in power…those who have a hatred for people of colour,” he added. Earlier, Trump had said the assassination attempt was “a much better result” than in June.
During the election live updates, Vance defended his claims against Swift
US Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance in an interview with CNN said that rumours about Haitian migrants eating cats in Ohio’s Springfield are true after all. “We’re creating a story…we’re creating the American media focusing on it,” he added. Earlier, Vance said that the rumour was based on calls he’d got from constituents before acknowledging possibility “all of these rumours will turn out to be false”.
Microsoft’s new playground is called Copilot Pages
Microsoft announced a new feature, ‘prioritize my inbox’, to help Copilot users prioritise emails. It added that it will be available in Outlook later this month and later this month in Word. Users will also be able to teach Copilot the specific topics and people that are important to them later this year, Microsoft said.
Creative ways of reducing food waste
An American restaurant named Shuggie in Seattle, Washington has been able to use leftover food from its restaurant and grocery store as ingredients to make a “leftovers-recipes-food-waste-climate-change” campaign. More than a million tons of food waste was generated by the restaurant industry in 2022, according to research by the US Department of Agriculture.
It was about control in the ad tech fight
Google’s former executive in charge of acquisitions David Drummond, in an email to Google’s board, wrote, “I believe that it would be in the best interest of our company and our shareholders if we acquired DoubleClick.” The email was obtained by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in its antitrust trial against Google.
Why it’s hard to fully block X in Brazil
Billionaire Elon Musk-led messaging platform Starlink has said that some of its users in Brazil began blocking Telegram within 24 hours of receiving a court order to do so in April. However, the block wasn’t implemented by all ISPs in Brazil nor was it implemented in the same way, Starlink added. “This suggests lack of coordination between providers,” it further said.
These states are leading the way in passing Deepfake Porn Laws
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deepfake pornography are issues worth talking about, Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at WIRED said in a conversation. She also said the year of generative artificial intelligence was “the year of the WIRED politics team’s project”. “It seems like the hysteria around AI has waned, but deepfakes of politicians are still out there,” Feiger added.