OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are being tested. The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.

ABC sues the FCC to stop an early review of its TV licenses - Engadget

ABC accused the Trump Administration of waging "a retaliatory campaign" because it doesn't like what the network broadcasts.

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A battle between ABC and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to rumble on for the foreseeable future after the network filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the agency. It accused the Trump Administration of undertaking "a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts."

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

Anthropic published a blog post Friday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the text generated by its chatbot Claude. Such as: How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works

Surveillance technology startup Flock announced a series of new policies and tools on Thursday, claiming they will help curb abuse of its automated license plate camera reader systems and help keep its law enforcement customers accountable.

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They often have to sell more shares than they want or risk offending some of their existing VCs.

Save space in your Google storage by changing this one Android setting - Engadget

Don't upgrade your Google plan yet! You may be using up way more storage than necessary.

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Instagram introduces a redesigned wordmark

Instagram on Thursday introduced a new wordmark, which is the text-only logo that spells out the company’s name. The social media giant’s logic was that the older version of its logo felt dated after a decade in use.

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed.

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.

Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. Currently, creators need 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours over the past year or 1,000 subscribers and 10 million Shorts views over the past 90 days.

Clicks’ Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises

Clicks Technology, the startup determined to bring back physical keyboards to smartphones, began shipping its now-$99 MagSafe-compatible Power Keyboard this summer, after some delays. As of last week, 75% of the preorders from the first batch had shipped to customers.