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YouTube creators find Apple and others used their videos to train AI: AI models at Apple, Salesforce, Anthropic, and other big tech players were trained on tens of thousands of YouTube videos without the creators' consent. This may have violated YouTube's terms. This comes from a new report in Proof News and Wired. LINK

Grayscale Launches New Fund for Decentralized AI: Grayscale is a crypto asset manager. They has launched a new fund. It focuses on decentralized artificial intelligence. The aim is to integrate AI with blockchain. LINK

Ex-OpenAI, Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy launches AI platform: Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla. A teacher would design courses on the Eureka Labs platform, but they would be aided by an AI teaching assistant to guide students through the learning material, Karpathy said in a post on X. LINK

Rabbit r1’s AI secretly stores undeletable user chats: Rabbit has revealed that the r1 has been logging user chats on the device with no way to erase them. This means that if you lost your r1, someone stole it, or you sold it, your chat logs could have potentially been visible to someone else. Users hadn't been made aware that any conversations with the device were being logged. LINK

Self-regulation won’t stop political misuse of generative AI: Elon OpenAI employees have revealed the company's dangerous and secretive culture. They say it often values tech progress more than safety. Although the policy bans using ChatGPT in political campaigns, disinformation, or voter suppression, some candidates and foreign groups are ignoring this. LINK

TECH TIDBITS

Microsoft's AI Designer App Now On Mobile: Microsoft's AI-powered Designer app is now on iOS and Android, not just the web. It connects to Microsoft services like Word, PowerPoint, and Windows 11 Photos. Also, it offers tools for image editing, restyling, and making collages. Features include creating avatars, removing backgrounds, and erasing people or objects. The app is free and versatile for creative tasks. It's also coming to all Windows 11 Insider Channels. This move bolsters Windows 11 Photos with stronger AI editing. Users and tech experts have warmly received the new app and its integration with Microsoft services. LINK

Anthropic and Menlo Ventures launch $100M AI fund, competing with OpenAI: Anthropic and its big investor, Menlo Ventures, are starting a $100 million fund to help new startups. They want these startups to use Anthropic’s AI technology. Menlo Ventures will provide the money, while Anthropic will give startup founders $25,000 in credits to use their AI models. This is similar to how Apple supports new companies. LINK

CMF Phone 1 Sold 100,000 Units In Just 3 Hours: Nothing launched the CMF Phone 1 on Monday, and it sold over 100,000 units in just three hours. This is much faster than the Nothing Phone (2a) they released in March, which took 24 hours to sell that many. The CMF Phone 1 is selling eight times faster.​LINK

EU closes Apple Pay antitrust investigation: In January, Apple announced changes to allow other payment apps to use the NFC chip in iPhones, just like Apple Pay. This means banking and other wallet apps can work when the phone is near an NFC terminal or when the side button is double-clicked. The EU has now accepted these changes and closed a four-year investigation into Apple’s practices with Apple Pay. With this new API access, other apps can become the default wallet on iPhones, making Apple Pay compete fairly. Banks and payment companies in the EU can now create their own wallet apps without being at a disadvantage. LINK

Google no longer claims carbon neutrality: The tech giant, which has seen its planet-warming emissions rise because of artificial intelligence, has stopped buying cheap offsets behind the neutrality claim. The company now aims to reach net-zero carbon by 2030. LINK

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If a website disables the right-click menu, you can get it back by holding Shift while right-clicking.

Some websites (mostly those designed and run by a-holes) disable the right-click functionality in desktop browsers to prevent you from copying links, saving pictures, or doing other things that you might want to do for your own personal reasons.

Frequently you'll encounter advice like "disable JavaScript" or "install some extension" but all you have to do is hold the Shift key while performing the right-click and the menu will pop right up.

I know this works in Firefox on all sites I checked. If you're using Chrome, maybe don't use Chrome.

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