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Temu Emerges as Major Ad Client for Meta, Google

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Temu is now one of the biggest ad clients for both Google and Meta, according to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

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Patent Drop

Google May Use Radio Waves to Feed its AI Models

Google’s patent to scrape radio stations for AI training could provide a pool of useful data, though it may face a copyright dilemma.

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Microsoft’s Cloud Defense Could Help it Catch Up to AWS

Microsoft may want to gatekeep the cloud using log-in analysis. The tech could keep AI models and training data safer.

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Apple Hit With $2 Billion Fine By EU Over Music Streaming

European regulators found that the tech giant broke the region’s laws with its ban against making purchases outside its App Store.

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Patent Drop

Apple’s Auto Patents May Have a Lucrative Road Ahead

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An auto tech patent from Apple highlights that the iPhone maker has tons of vehicle-related intellectual property – and nowhere to use it.

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Patent Drop

Meta’s Eye Authentication System Keeps Metaverse Data Safe

Meta wants to make sure it’s actually you who’s wearing your mixed reality headset.

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Major Investors Are Getting Sick of Apple’s AI Cloak and Dagger

Two big shareholders are supporting a proposal that calls on the tech titan to disclose its future plans for generative AI.

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Patent Drop

Google’s Multimodal Assistant Patent Watches and Learns

The tech highlights that AI needs multiple streams of data to really get to know its users.

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Apple’s Fraught Future in China

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Apple’s enjoyed unusual levels of success in China for a Western company, but its future in the country is looking less and less bright.

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Patent Drop

Meta Patent Reveals Details of Lighter and Smarter Headsets

The tech could provide a glimpse at an “all-day usable item” that spatial computing may rely on to scale.

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Patent Drop

Amazon Patent May Lower AI’s Barrier to Entry

Amazon wants everyone to fight fraud with machine learning with its latest patent for “automated machine learning pipeline generation.”

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Patent Drop

Google Wants to Use Context to Drop Wakewords

Without a wakeword, a digital assistant has to monitor its users more closely.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft May Give its AI Chatbots a Personal Touch

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Its patent to speed up interactions between you and your chatbot signals a growing interest in personalized AI.

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