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On Thursday, Reddit is rolling out a new policy aimed at balancing its desire to license its content to larger tech companies, like Google, and protecting users' privacy. The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners. Related to this, the company also announced a subreddit dedicated to researchers working with Reddit's data.
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A new sculpture going live on Wednesday in the Flatiron South Public Plaza in New York is not your typical artwork. The Portal itself is an impressive piece of work, weighing in at 3.5 tons, with a footprint of around 11.5 by 11.5 feet. While the concept is cool, the underlying software technology that drives it comes from Video Window, a British company that originally created software and hardware for the purpose of connecting employees in remote locations — at home or in other offices — with an always-on connection.
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Bye-bye bots: Altera's game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it raised $9 million in an oversubscribed seed round, co-led by First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt’s deep-tech fund) and Patron (the seed stage fund co-founded by Riot Games alums). The funding follows Altera's previous raising a pre-seed $2 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others in January of this year.
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iRobot names former Timex head Gary Cohen as CEO
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The UK's Ministry of Defence was hacked, and the country is reportedly blaming China
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OpenAI says it's building a tool to let content creators 'opt out' of AI training
OpenAI says that it's developing a tool to let creators better control how their content's used in training generative AI. The tool, called Media Manager, will allow creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how they want those works to be included or excluded from AI research and training. The goal is to have the tool in place by 2025, OpenAI says, as the company works with "creators, content owners and regulators" toward a standard -- perhaps through the industry steering committee it recently joined.
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Israel seizes control of Rafah border crossing, Trump fined again for gag order violation and Pacers-Knicks refs admit wrong call
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Global crypto firms turn to Hong Kong for refuge — and opportunity
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