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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

Linus Torvalds fixed a Linux bug using AI, highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the new tech
It's useful, but it's not perfect.
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How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours
Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.

‘Better move would be to ban it’: Apple Music steps up plan for AI-generated song labels, but some users think it doesn’t go far enough
Apple Music will require artists to label their AI-generated music so users know what they’re getting.

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have cl
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Apple lays off 200 employees to focus on ‘new devices’ and AI
Macworld According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is laying off and “realigning” several employees in multiple departments in order to “focus on new devices and artificial intelligence.” About 200 employees are affected. The Vision Pro tea

One in Three New Web Pages Show Signs of AI Writing, Pew Study Finds
The post One in Three New Web Pages Show Signs of AI Writing, Pew Study Finds appeared first on Android Headlines.

No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an 'obscure' Windows-only printer
Developer uses Claude Code to create driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a 2023 printer that has Windows and Linux drivers, but no macOS driver – until now.
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Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself
Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to the model. It is also committing $35mn in c

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

Apple Guts Vision Pro Gaming and Immersive Video Teams, Trims Siri Staff
In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg. Apple is "largely shutting down" the Vision Pro team focu

LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working
LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working.

Gboard on the Pixel 11 has a new AI feature to help you text
The post Gboard on the Pixel 11 has a new AI feature to help you text appeared first on Android Headlines.

Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement g

Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores
They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they dec

Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked

Adobe Firefly becomes audio studio for AI-generated music, voices and sound effects
Adobe is significantly expanding its generative creative platform Firefly by making three key audio tools available to all users. Firefly can now generate music, voices, and sound effects from simple prompts. All audio content is explicitly

A new Gemini for Home update is rolling out, but users are slamming Google for not fixing ‘missing and broken features’ despite the voice upgrades
Gemini for Home is getting some new upgrades, but users are still waiting for Google to fix the real problems.

Some Grok Users Are Getting Bizarre Gibberish Responses
The post Some Grok Users Are Getting Bizarre Gibberish Responses appeared first on Android Headlines.
Google's New Pixel 11 Pro Ads Put Gemini Front and Center
The post Google's New Pixel 11 Pro Ads Put Gemini Front and Center appeared first on Android Headlines.

Child safety experts are skeptical of OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens
They say the company must prove it can be trusted before products like these get a pass.
Huawei introduces SingleRAN 22.1 to elevate mobile AI era
Huawei has launched the first SingleRAN 22.1 software version to take the mobile AI era to the next level. It is a commercial tech solution and aims to develop a multi-dimensional capability network base to boost smartphone AI deployment. S

ChatGPT on Mac can now read and respond to Apple iMessages
OpenAI has rolled out a plugin that allows ChatGPT to control the Apple Messages app.

One $100 payment gets you ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more for life
Macworld TL;DR: Just one $99.99 payment gets you lifetime access to 1min.AI’s multi-model business and creative toolkit. There’s productive multitasking, and then there’s keeping six AI tabs open while trying to remember which one was editi

Samsung One UI 9.5 May Bring AI-Powered Custom Widgets to Galaxy Phones
Widgets are trending again as a great part of the Android experience. The feature has been there for generations, but Google has been giving more focus recently to make them more useful and functional. The company recently unveiled Gemini's

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.

Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs
Apple sent emails to its music industry partners about the upcoming launch of a Made With AI label that Apple will apply to AI-generated content (via The Hollywood Reporter). Content tagged as being "materially generated using AI" will have

ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac
OpenAI today said there's a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing ChatGPT on Mac to search messages, draft messages, analyze conversations, and send replies to people. The Apple Messages plugin can be installed from the ChatGPT Pl

Apple Music will reportedly label any AI-made tracks later this year
The upcoming feature expands its Transparency Tags for marking slop songs.
Pixel 11 Gboard Writing tools offer ‘Personalized suggestions’ with Gemini Intelligence
On the Pixel 11 series, Google has updated Gboard’s Writing tools with Gemini Intelligence to offer “Personalized suggestions.”

Ninkear L20: A Tiny AI Mini PC With Intel Core Ultra 5 and Arc Graphics
Mini PCs have come a long way from being simple low-power computers designed primarily for web browsing and office work. The Ninkear L20 is a good example of this evolution, packing Intel's modern Core Ultra platform, dedicated AI accelerat

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

Linus Torvalds fixed a Linux bug using AI, highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the new tech
It's useful, but it's not perfect.

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours
Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.

‘Better move would be to ban it’: Apple Music steps up plan for AI-generated song labels, but some users think it doesn’t go far enough
Apple Music will require artists to label their AI-generated music so users know what they’re getting.
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Earn points with Microsoft
Redeem points for games, sweepstakes, and gift cards to your favourite stores.

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have cl

Apple lays off 200 employees to focus on ‘new devices’ and AI
Macworld According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is laying off and “realigning” several employees in multiple departments in order to “focus on new devices and artificial intelligence.” About 200 employees are affected. The Vision Pro tea

One in Three New Web Pages Show Signs of AI Writing, Pew Study Finds
The post One in Three New Web Pages Show Signs of AI Writing, Pew Study Finds appeared first on Android Headlines.

No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an 'obscure' Windows-only printer
Developer uses Claude Code to create driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a 2023 printer that has Windows and Linux drivers, but no macOS driver – until now.

Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself
Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to the model. It is also committing $35mn in c
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Join us on Threads
Join in the discussion on our daily tech thread.

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

Apple Guts Vision Pro Gaming and Immersive Video Teams, Trims Siri Staff
In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg. Apple is "largely shutting down" the Vision Pro team focu

LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working
LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working.

Gboard on the Pixel 11 has a new AI feature to help you text
The post Gboard on the Pixel 11 has a new AI feature to help you text appeared first on Android Headlines.

Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement g
Sponsored// sponsored
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Get the latest tech news daily, delivered direct to your Telegram.

Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores
They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they dec

Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked

Adobe Firefly becomes audio studio for AI-generated music, voices and sound effects
Adobe is significantly expanding its generative creative platform Firefly by making three key audio tools available to all users. Firefly can now generate music, voices, and sound effects from simple prompts. All audio content is explicitly

A new Gemini for Home update is rolling out, but users are slamming Google for not fixing ‘missing and broken features’ despite the voice upgrades
Gemini for Home is getting some new upgrades, but users are still waiting for Google to fix the real problems.

Some Grok Users Are Getting Bizarre Gibberish Responses
The post Some Grok Users Are Getting Bizarre Gibberish Responses appeared first on Android Headlines.
Google's New Pixel 11 Pro Ads Put Gemini Front and Center
The post Google's New Pixel 11 Pro Ads Put Gemini Front and Center appeared first on Android Headlines.

Child safety experts are skeptical of OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens
They say the company must prove it can be trusted before products like these get a pass.
Huawei introduces SingleRAN 22.1 to elevate mobile AI era
Huawei has launched the first SingleRAN 22.1 software version to take the mobile AI era to the next level. It is a commercial tech solution and aims to develop a multi-dimensional capability network base to boost smartphone AI deployment. S

ChatGPT on Mac can now read and respond to Apple iMessages
OpenAI has rolled out a plugin that allows ChatGPT to control the Apple Messages app.

One $100 payment gets you ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more for life
Macworld TL;DR: Just one $99.99 payment gets you lifetime access to 1min.AI’s multi-model business and creative toolkit. There’s productive multitasking, and then there’s keeping six AI tabs open while trying to remember which one was editi

Samsung One UI 9.5 May Bring AI-Powered Custom Widgets to Galaxy Phones
Widgets are trending again as a great part of the Android experience. The feature has been there for generations, but Google has been giving more focus recently to make them more useful and functional. The company recently unveiled Gemini's

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.

Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs
Apple sent emails to its music industry partners about the upcoming launch of a Made With AI label that Apple will apply to AI-generated content (via The Hollywood Reporter). Content tagged as being "materially generated using AI" will have

ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac
OpenAI today said there's a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing ChatGPT on Mac to search messages, draft messages, analyze conversations, and send replies to people. The Apple Messages plugin can be installed from the ChatGPT Pl

Apple Music will reportedly label any AI-made tracks later this year
The upcoming feature expands its Transparency Tags for marking slop songs.
Pixel 11 Gboard Writing tools offer ‘Personalized suggestions’ with Gemini Intelligence
On the Pixel 11 series, Google has updated Gboard’s Writing tools with Gemini Intelligence to offer “Personalized suggestions.”

Ninkear L20: A Tiny AI Mini PC With Intel Core Ultra 5 and Arc Graphics
Mini PCs have come a long way from being simple low-power computers designed primarily for web browsing and office work. The Ninkear L20 is a good example of this evolution, packing Intel's modern Core Ultra platform, dedicated AI accelerat
