Episode 58 - YouTube's AI Search, WhatsApp Summaries, a Copyright Win & the Cyber Gold Rush
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Show Notes
Major tech companies are integrating AI into their services: Google is adding AI search to YouTube, and Meta is rolling out AI-generated summaries for private messages on WhatsApp. Anthropic is exploring AI's potential in gaming, aiming to evoke the spirit of Flash games, while another piece discusses an attempt to have an AI beat a Geoguessr master. On a broader scale, Armin Ronacher writes about how AI changes everything, and a significant U.S. legal precedent has been set, permitting AI to be trained on copyrighted books. In Israeli business news, cybersecurity firm Cyera acquired Otterize, and startup Bonfy.AI raised $9.5 million to address content risks. Lastly, a data-recovery firm tested a surprisingly functional, though not recommended, $28 external hard drive from Amazon.
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