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Twitch AI opt-out, Trump's cyber push, China's job squeeze · 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 13,
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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: Twitch will now use streamers' content by default
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  SPEAKER_00: to help train Amazon's generative AI models,
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  SPEAKER_00: and creators have to manually opt out if they don't want their footage used.
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  SPEAKER_00: The company's own product chief admitted on a live stream that if
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  SPEAKER_00: the choice were opt-in instead,
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  SPEAKER_00: Basically,
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  SPEAKER_00: nobody would agree to it,
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  SPEAKER_00: a blunt answer that's fueling backlash across the creator community.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Trump signed a memo authorizing private companies under federal oversight
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  SPEAKER_00: to run offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal groups
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  SPEAKER_00: that target Americans.
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  SPEAKER_00: The new program splits work into intelligence gathering
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  SPEAKER_00: and more aggressive cyber effects operations,
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  SPEAKER_00: and participating firms have to post a bond of at least a million dollars
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  SPEAKER_00: that gets forfeited if they don't comply.
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  SPEAKER_00: A new analysis finds that roughly 53 million Chinese workers have been pushed into
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  SPEAKER_00: the country's low-wage gig economy as a prolonged property bust
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  SPEAKER_00: and weak consumer spending shrink the number of formal jobs available.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ridesharing and delivery work is absorbing much of that surplus labor,
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  SPEAKER_00: with reports of licensed taxi drivers sleeping in their cars overnight just to catch
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  SPEAKER_00: a single fare.
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  SPEAKER_00: Microsoft confirmed its merging Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot
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  SPEAKER_00: into one unified app that brings chat,
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  SPEAKER_00: coding, and AI agents under a single roof for both personal and work accounts.
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  SPEAKER_00: The worldwide rollout for mobile and web starts this month with Windows
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  SPEAKER_00: and Mac versions following in September.
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  SPEAKER_00: SpaceX AI launched GroK 4.6,
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  SPEAKER_00: a new frontier AI model built for long-running agents, coding,
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  SPEAKER_00: and knowledge work,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's now tied with OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol for third best on
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  SPEAKER_00: the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
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  SPEAKER_00: The model gained five points over its predecessor in just over a month,
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  SPEAKER_00: with standout performance on agentic tasks and lower cost than rivals.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.