Cleared by the US, derailed by the UK: Getty’s Shutterstock merger falls apart
… Pressure from UK regulators has killed similar deals in the past. …
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AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
… And Google is also facing competitive pressures from Chinese AI tools, as well as pricing pressure to keep the cost of its models low. …
Dyson put someone else’s motor in its robot vacuum
… Lawson McLean claims this tradeoff only tells half the story. “We never look at motors by themselves. … the ducting, the inlet pressure, outlet pressure, etc. of the Spot + Scrub, all have a huge amount of Dyson engineering wrapped around it,” he says. …
The AI giants’ new problem: open AI
… Openness can also be a powerful strategy for gaining a competitive edge. …
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is back
… Pressure was also building within the US AI industry, particularly fears about the AI advancements China could make while top US AI labs were sidelined. …
China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. …
Instagram has launched another Snapchat clone
… It resembles the “Shots” instant photo sharing feature that is already baked into Instagram messages and was later rebranded to Instants , and an Instagram spokesperson told Business Insider that it’s designed to “give people low-pressure ways to connect with friends.” Users can capture photos and … …
AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
… In the public statement, the employees went on to underscore the importance of some sort of coordinated regulation worldwide, so that the ever-intensifying AI race doesn’t outpace safety and monitoring tools. “To realize Al’s potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option… …
Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead
… The pressure is on for OpenAI to get closer to turning a profit, and it and its competitors have been burning a lot of investor cash in their chase to acquire more compute and reach AGI. …
Apple wants Europe to blink
… Jan Penfrat, a senior policy adviser for European Digital Rights EDRi , a network of NGOs, experts, and advocates campaigning for digital rights across Europe, sees Apple’s latest moves as a means of putting pressure on the EU Commission to allow it to break the DMA. “It’s very much a lobbying tact… …