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Geoff Brumfiel / NPR : Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery   —  A day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/AD6qraP

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch : Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations   —  Snapchat is the latest company to strengthen its stance against AI slop.  The social network platform will no longer reward fully … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bYSRwLG

Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs   —  The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them.  Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bMaKCEd

Disney is leaning into AI under CEO Josh D'Amaro, but it's dropping Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. Blanca Cruz / AFP via Getty Images; Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Disney plans to dump Microsoft's GitHub Copilot while bringing OpenAI's Codex aboard. Eight Disney employees said they didn't rely on GitHub Copilot, which faces stiff competition. Claude and Cursor have become beloved inside the Mouse House as tech staffers push AI adoption. Disney has decided it no longer needs a Copilot on its AI coding journey. The Mouse House is ditching Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and several other AI coding tools in August in the US, tech leaders told select staffers on Tuesday afternoon, according to a screenshot of an internal message viewed by Business Insider. These changes don't apply internationally, a Disney tech leader told employees. A breakup with Disney is the latest headache for Microsoft's Copilot , which "lag...

Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027   —  OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/w2yNmgx

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more   —  The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/b4utAdK

Dustin Volz / New York Times : Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system   —  Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/R7Zfxcl