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DeepMind thinks its new Genie 3 world model presents a stepping stone toward AGI

DeepMind thinks its new Genie 3 world model presents a stepping stone toward AGI: Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 3, its latest foundation world model that the AI lab says presents a crucial stepping stone on the path to artificial general intelligence, or human-like intelligence.  Read More

ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use: The AI audio-generation unicorn ElevenLabs announced the launch of a new model that allows users to generate music that's cleared for commercial use. Read More

Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers' personal information: Cisco disclosed a data breach including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users. Read More

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Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users' menstrual health data

Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users' menstrual health data: The class-action suit was brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users' consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. Read More

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