Jay Peters
For All Mankind’s fifth season debuts in March.
The 10-episode season kicks off on March 27th on Apple TV. Based on a trailer, it looks like things will get tense between Earth and Mars.
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Dominic Preston
30 organizations call for an end to Android developer registration.
The likes of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Rights Group signed an open letter from the Keep Android Open project in opposition to developer registration, which opens next month and will be mandatory from September. The group’s Marc Prud’hommeaux explains why:
“We’ve been reaching out to Google for months to implore them to reverse course on this lockdown. The implications of their threatened action for competition and digital sovereignty are dire.”
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Robert Hart
Oura adds a model designed to discuss women’s health to its AI chatbot.
The Oura Advisor chatbot will soon be able to offer smart ring wearers an AI model that it says covers “the full reproductive health spectrum, from early menstrual cycles through menopause.” Of course, reproductive health data is sensitive, particularly in places like the US — you might want to think carefully before handing it over.
Here’s what Oura is saying about the model’s privacy:
It is hosted entirely on Oura-controlled infrastructure, and conversations are never sold, shared, or used to train public or third-party AI systems.
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Allison Johnson
Jess Weatherbed
AMD forges $100 billion deal with Meta for AI chips.
After buying millions of Nvidia’s AI chips last week, Meta has now also signed a multi-year agreement to buy six gigawatts worth of AMD processors for AI data centers. The deal could see Meta owning 10 percent of AMD’s stock, and follows a similar agreement between AMD and OpenAI.
Jess Weatherbed
Reddit fined almost $20 million for “using children’s data unlawfully.”
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office dished out a £14.47 million (about $19.5 million) penalty for Reddit’s previous lack of robust age verification and failure to assess risks to children before January 2025. That’s just a smidge higher than the £247,590 (about $335,000) fine Imgur was hit with for similar reasons earlier this month.
Dominic Preston
Who keeps the safety researchers safe?
Look, it’s never nice to laugh at someone’s misfortune. But when a Meta AI safety researcher puts on a public demonstration of AI safety risks using their personal email as collateral, I think we should all take a moment to enjoy it.
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Hang this in the museum. An AI safety researcher pleading with a robot known for being unsafe to not delete her inbox. Sign of many wonderful things to come.
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Jess Weatherbed
It’s more than just a $200 million military contract at stake.
Tina Nguyen and Hayden Field
Jay Peters
Amazon is shutting down its King of Meat game and offering full refunds.
The multiplayer title, which will shut down on April 9th, reportedly struggled to find players, and developer Glowmade recently laid off staff.
It’s yet another change for Amazon’s gaming efforts, which include ditching MMOs and offloading a MOBA to Ubisoft.
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