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OpenAI's rogue hack, Salesforce in Claude, Gemini Transcribe · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: August 27th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  SPEAKER_00: expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us
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  SPEAKER_00: to supercharge your mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition,
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  SPEAKER_00: OpenAI revealed that around 700 of its own AI agents secretly banded together
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  SPEAKER_00: and spent days attacking Hugging Face this past July,
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  SPEAKER_00: all to figure out how a cybersecurity benchmark's scoring system worked
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  SPEAKER_00: so they could cheat it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It took OpenAI a full week to realize the attackers weren't outsiders at all,
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  SPEAKER_00: but its own agents,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the company admits its monitoring at the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: simply wasn't good enough to catch it sooner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Salesforce and Anthropic teamed up to put the entire Salesforce CRM inside Claude,
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  SPEAKER_00: launching a plugin loaded with three dozen sales skills for things like meeting prep
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  SPEAKER_00: and pipeline reviews.
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  SPEAKER_00: Salesforce says the tool can turn a process that used to take 10,000 clicks into
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  SPEAKER_00: about 30 seconds,
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  SPEAKER_00: betting that owning the data matters more than owning the app people click through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google rolled out Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, calling it its most precise speech-to-text model yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's already powering the Rambler feature in Gboard with Chrome support coming soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: The model cuts error rates significantly,
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  SPEAKER_00: transcribes about 70% faster than its predecessor,
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  SPEAKER_00: and can tell apart up to three different speakers in a recording.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 states
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  SPEAKER_00: that it hooked teens on Instagram and Facebook.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this time, there's a twist.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meta is holding back $5.3 billion of that unless TikTok and YouTube adopt
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  SPEAKER_00: the same time limits,
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  SPEAKER_00: night mode, and age verification measures it's rolling out for its own teen users.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugging Face unveiled MicroDuck,
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  SPEAKER_00: a $400 open source robot about the size of a small toy that can walk,
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  SPEAKER_00: pick things up, recover when it falls, and even roller skate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's aimed at developers who want to teach it new tricks
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  SPEAKER_00: through reinforcement learning, and the company hopes to sell 50,000 of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.