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Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. Both target US infrastructure and political debates.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Jeff Bezos revealed that his Prometheus AI startup aims to build an “artificial general engineer.” The startup will focus on building AI-powered tools to help develop physical products.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of around 3 billion euros at a valuation of approximately 20 billion euros.
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Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Police departments in multiple US states were exposed for abusing the Flock AI license plate recognition system; dozens of officers were fired or even arrested for using the system to track former or current partners. Investigations show this is only the tip of the iceberg of abuse, with most cases exposed only after victim complaints. Flock company responded that abuse 'rarely occurs,' but regulatory pressure is increasing. #AI Surveillance Abuse#
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Anthropic is throttling its new Mythos model for certain tasks while building apps that directly compete with its largest customers. Customers, partners, and investors are pushing back.
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Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗On June 11, a Canadian woman filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in California, USA, alleging that design flaws in the ChatGPT chatbot led to her daughter Alice's suicide.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Kingsoft Cloud announced on its official website on the 12th (today): Due to the surge in global AI computing power demand and rising hardware costs, price adjustments will be made for some products. Prices for AI computing-related product services will increase by approximately 15%-50%, and prices for file storage-related product services will increase by approximately 30%-50%. Specific specifications and prices are subject to the billing instructions in the console.
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Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Moonshot AI released and open-sourced the Kimi K2.7 Code programming model today.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗OpenAI is acquiring Ona, previously known as Gitpod, a startup founded in Kiel, Germany in 2020 that specializes in AI agents and secure cloud development environments for software development.
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Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi Work, an AI agent that runs on your own desktop. The Beijing-based AI entity announced it this week along with downloads for macOS and Windows. Kimi Work reads local files, drives your real browser, and runs scheduled tasks. It targets knowledge workers whose bottleneck is access to files and live sessions.
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Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Midea Group stated that through the WeChat AI Agent, it provides users with natural language control capabilities, enabling users to achieve high-frequency scenarios such as switching Midea devices on/off, adjusting modes, and querying status.
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