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Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because ‘Zuck has balls,’ a former top Facebook engineer says::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk by making its powerful AI model Llama 2 mostly open source, according to Replit CEO Amjad Masad.

User data stolen from genetic testing giant 23andMe is now for sale on the dark web::User data from 23andMe accounts has been leaked and put up for sale on a dark web forum after what appeared to be a “credential stuffing” cyberattack.

Great news — social media is falling apart::I don’t know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.

ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it’s smart, researchers found::Developers often prefer ChatGPT’s responses about code to those submitted by humans, despite the bot frequently being wrong, researchers found.

Apple has been quiet about ChatGPT. Now Tim Cook says its hefty $22.6 billion research spend is down to generative AI.::The company’s research and development spending hit $22.61 billion for the year so far, a figure $3.12 billion higher than this time last year.

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In the two years I've been writing about Americans' changing relationship to work, there's one theme that's come up over and over again: loyalty. Whether my stories are about quiet quitting, or job-hopping, or leveraging a job offer from a competitor to force your boss to give you a raise, readers seem to divide into two groups....

So that’s why Google wants you to use Chrome on your iPhone so badly::Sundar Pichai’s Google pays Tim Cook’s Apple a whopping 36% of search revenue it gets when people use Safari — ouch.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped in to remove a pro-Hitler post::X CEO Linda Yaccarino helped get a viral pro-Hitler tweet taken down, The Information reported. Hate speech has risen on X since Elon Musk’s takeover.

The Houthis reportedly said they would avoid attacking Chinese ships off the coast of Yemen....

Amazon unveils Q, its AI chatbot for workers::Available to AWS users, Amazon Q aims to help workers draft emails, generate content, and fix bugs.

The US announced deployments of new long-range fires weapons to Germany will start in 2026....

Some European NATO members are talking about putting their troops in Ukraine....

Oil and gas facilities in Russia have caught fire in recent weeks following suspected drone attacks....

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