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Elon Musk says Tesla will likely spend $3B to $4B on Nvidia hardware in 2024 and that half of its formerly noted $10B AI-related capex will be on internal spend (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-likely-spend-3-bln-4-bln-nvidia-hardware-this-year-2024-06-04/
http://www.techmeme.com/240604/p35#a240604p35

Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla's chip deals, and diverted "12k of shipped H100 GPUs" for Tesla to X (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/elon-musk-told-nvidia-to-ship-ai-chips-reserved-for-tesla-to-x-xai.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240604/p23#a240604p23

Analysis: China's internet had 3.9M websites in 2023, down ~27% from 2017; Chinese-language websites were 1.3% of the global total, down 70% from 4.3% in 2013 (Li Yuan/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/business/china-internet-censorship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE0.LLCc.oQlOhnrnKeyp&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/240604/p8#a240604p8

Sources: Microsoft is discussing a deal with CISPE, which could include a multimillion-euro payment to get the cloud lobby to drop its EU antitrust complaint (Politico)

https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-to-pay-off-cloud-industry-group-to-end-eu-antitrust-complaint/
http://www.techmeme.com/240601/p2#a240601p2

Filing: Meta agrees to settle a 2022 lawsuit by Texas accusing Meta of using facial recognition tech to collect biometric data of Texans without their consent (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/meta-settle-texas-lawsuit-over-facebook-facial-recognition-data-2024-05-31/
http://www.techmeme.com/240531/p27#a240531p27

Anthropic releases a new feature called "tool use" to let users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24167231/anthropic-claude-ai-assistant-automate-tasks
http://www.techmeme.com/240530/p27#a240530p27

Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 leaked Search documents filled with details about data the company collects (Mia Sato/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167407/google-search-algorithm-documents-leak-confirmation
http://www.techmeme.com/240529/p34#a240529p34

Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/business/mark-dougan-russia-disinformation.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240529/p37#a240529p37

Sources: Musk and Trump talk many times/month, on topics like a role in a Trump admin, action on "voter fraud", and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/politics/donald-trump-elon-musk-alliance-d1fe43e3
http://www.techmeme.com/240529/p24#a240529p24

The US and global partners dismantle the 911 S5 proxy botnet, "likely the world's largest botnet ever" affecting 19M+ unique IPs, and arrest its administrator (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-dismantles-911-s5-residential-proxy-botnet-used-for-cyberattacks-arrests-admin/
http://www.techmeme.com/240529/p23#a240529p23

The Internet Archive says it has been under an intermittent DDoS attack for the last three days, making access inconsistent, however the collections remain safe (Kate Irwin/PCMag)

https://www.pcmag.com/news/internet-archive-hit-with-ddos-attack
http://www.techmeme.com/240528/p26#a240528p26

Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

https://www.pcmag.com/news/icq-one-of-the-oldest-instant-messengers-is-shutting-down
http://www.techmeme.com/240524/p20#a240524p20

An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI companies and the questions they raise regarding long-term costs, the selection process, and more (Pete Brown/Columbia Journalism Review)

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/licensing-deals-litigation-raise-raft-of-familiar-questions-in-fraught-world-of-platforms-and-publishers.php
http://www.techmeme.com/240524/p18#a240524p18

The White House issues a call to action seeking companies' voluntary commitment to curb the creation, spread, and monetization of nonconsensual sexual AI images (Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/ai-deepfake-biden-nonconsensual-sexual-images-c76c46b48e872cf79ded5430e098e65b
http://www.techmeme.com/240523/p42#a240523p42

US hospital operator Ascension, which has ~140 hospitals, remains down indefinitely after a May 8 cyberattack, an eerily similar hack to Change Healthcare (Reed Abelson/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/health/cyberattack-ascension-hospitals-patient-data.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240523/p30#a240523p30

OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle is merely a reminder of AI's manifest destiny philosophy: "This is happening, whether you like it or not", consent be damned (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/openai-scarlett-johansson-sky/678446/?gift=2iIN4YrefPjuvZ5d2Kh306LFFT6yU6HZVP_tmIcOfig&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.techmeme.com/240522/p5#a240522p5

TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/tiktok-upload-60-minute-videos/
http://www.techmeme.com/240516/p32#a240516p32

Google releases an emergency Chrome update to patch the third zero-day vulnerability exploited within a week, and the seventh zero-day fix in 2024 so far (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-patches-third-exploited-chrome-zero-day-in-a-week/
http://www.techmeme.com/240516/p15#a240516p15

As India's elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP's vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World)

https://restofworld.org/2024/bjp-whatsapp-modi/
http://www.techmeme.com/240515/p22#a240515p22

Apple letting the new iPad Pro run macOS would require major tradeoffs and adding touch to Mac would lead to "a lot of flakey software that doesn't really work" (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)

https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1790581279433621918
http://www.techmeme.com/240515/p16#a240515p16