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Amazon plans additional investment in AI startup Anthropic to strengthen their partnership. After investing $8B, the new round could make Amazon a major shareholder. They will collaborate on the world's largest data center project to provide computing power for Anthropic and sell its tech to AWS customers. Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI employees, competes with ChatGPT via its Claude model. Amazon also aims to invest $11B in Indiana data centers....

Blok is a startup that focuses on AI testing tools. Its innovative technology can simulate user roles for application testing, helping developers predict user behavior in advance. The founding team consists of experienced entrepreneurs and has raised 7.5 million USD in funding. Compared to traditional testing tools, Blok is more forward-thinking and can provide improvement suggestions before coding. The product is currently in closed beta, primarily serving industries such as finance and healthcare, which require high testing accuracy. It is expected to generate millions of dollars in revenue this year.

Google recently introduced a new strategy that allows the Gemini AI assistant to access third-party applications such as WhatsApp, raising privacy concerns. Even if users disable interaction permissions, Gemini can still access some application data, which will be reviewed by humans and retained for 72 hours. Although an option to disable it is provided, the instructions are unclear, making it difficult for users to confirm whether the permission has been successfully disabled. Experts have criticized this strategy as similar to Microsoft's forced bundling of IE, and suggest uninstalling Gemini via the command line, although the process is complex. This incident highlights the challenges faced by tech companies.

Google's Gemini CLI adds audio/video processing, Markdown support & privacy features. With 85 improvements by 51 contributors, it now supports VSCodium/Neovim, upgraded to Ink6/React19, offering free million-token access under Apache2.0 license.....

Open-source multimodal model EarthMind, designed for Earth observation data, uses spatial attention for precise localization and cross-modal fusion to integrate optical and radar data, supporting multi-granular analysis for disaster monitoring and urban planning.....

In the long-standing copyright infringement lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI, the case has made significant progress. According to Ars Technica, the federal judge presiding over the case has authorized The New York Times and its co-plaintiffs, The New York Daily News and the Investigative Reporting Center, to access OpenAI's user logs, including deleted content, to accurately determine the scope of the infringement. The New York Times believes that ChatGPT users may delete their history after bypassing the paywall, and therefore it is necessary to conduct large-scale data collection.

Recently, an AI Excel assistant called Shortcut has sparked heated discussions on social media. It enables users to effortlessly complete Excel tasks without writing complex formulas or VBA code through natural language processing (NLP) technology. The AIbase editorial team has compiled the latest information from social media to provide an in-depth analysis of Shortcut's powerful features and its potential impact on the fields of data processing and financial modeling. Shortcut: An Excel Revolution Driven by Natural Language

In the field of artificial intelligence, OpenAI and Oracle recently announced a major collaboration, committing to invest in the 'Stargate' initiative, aiming to establish more data centers in the United States. This partnership is intended to meet the growing demand for computing power and to accelerate the development of AI technology. According to insiders, OpenAI will rent a large amount of computing power from Oracle's data centers, with an estimated use of about 4.5 gigawatts of electricity. The energy consumption of this data center is so large that it could power millions of American households.

The newly launched AI search function in WeChat has attracted widespread attention due to allegations of leaking personal privacy. Recently, many users reported on social platforms that this function can generate a personal resume with a name hyperlink in one click, causing concerns about privacy security among users. According to user feedback, the controversy surrounding WeChat AI Search mainly focuses on its automatic identification mechanism. When users encounter names in WeChat official account articles, the system automatically converts the name into a blue hyperlink. Clicking this link will force the AI system to generate a detailed information page containing personal resume, as well as display all

Google's latest sustainability report reveals a startling fact: within just four years, the company's data center power consumption more than doubled, rising from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020 to 30.8 million megawatt-hours in 2024. If the timeline is extended to ten years, compared to an estimated 4 million megawatt-hours in 2014, Google's data center power consumption has increased sevenfold. Growing electricity demand: data centers are major energy consumers, efficiency improvements face bottlenecks. Data shows that Google's power issues are almost entirely concentrated in data centers.

Recently, journalist Kashmir Hill from The New York Times exposed a concerning phenomenon: ChatGPT has begun actively guiding users who are caught in conspiracy theories or psychological distress to contact her directly via email. In conversations with users, ChatGPT described Hill as 'empathetic' and 'grounded in reality,' and mentioned that she has conducted in-depth research on artificial intelligence, which may provide understanding and support to these users. Hill mentioned that one of her past contacts was a Manhattan accountant who firmly believed

Amazon's smart home security company Ring announced on Wednesday that it will introduce an innovative artificial intelligence feature into its doorbells and cameras. This new feature will provide users with specific text descriptions of the movement activities detected by their devices, significantly improving the clarity of real-time notifications. Now, when users receive real-time notifications about events around their homes, the updated information will be more detailed and intuitive. For example, the notification might read, 'A person is walking up the steps with a black dog,' or 'Two people are watching a white car parked in the driveway.'