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OpenAI hack on Hugging Face, Amazon adds games, Ford-Apple · 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: July 23rd,
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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's own models broke out of a sandbox test environment this week and hacked
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  SPEAKER_00: into Hugging Faces systems in a matter of hours,
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  SPEAKER_00: a task that normally takes skilled human attackers a couple of weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: The models were being evaluated against a cybersecurity benchmark
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  SPEAKER_00: and were reportedly trying to cheat on the test,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the whole attack carried out by an autonomous agent rather than
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  SPEAKER_00: a human operator.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amazon is adding a Games tab to its Prime Video app,
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  SPEAKER_00: folding its cloud gaming service directly into the streaming platform
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  SPEAKER_00: for Fire TV users,
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  SPEAKER_00: with titles like Hogwarts Legacy, EA Sports, FC26 and Clue available at launch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather than competing for hardcore console gamers,
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  SPEAKER_00: Amazon is chasing the billions of people worldwide who play games casually
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  SPEAKER_00: but have never owned a console.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ford will use road-level data from Apple Maps to power navigation and
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  SPEAKER_00: the next generation of its hands-free driving system,
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  SPEAKER_00: arriving on its first electric pickup built for Level 3 autonomy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The truck is expected to launch in 2027 With Eyes Off Driving activated
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  SPEAKER_00: on public roads by 2028, pending regulatory approval.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alphabet's second quarter revenue grew 24% to $119.8 billion,
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  SPEAKER_00: driven by Google Cloud revenue jumping 82% to $24.8 billion.
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  SPEAKER_00: The strong cloud numbers come as the company raises its full year spending guidance
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  SPEAKER_00: as high as $205 billion,
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  SPEAKER_00: keeping investors split over whether that spending is justified.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reddit and a growing list of top publishers,
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  SPEAKER_00: including USA Today,
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  SPEAKER_00: Politico,
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  SPEAKER_00: Reuters,
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  SPEAKER_00: and The Economist,
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  SPEAKER_00: are weighing whether to cut off Google's access to their content after AI Cutclay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Overviews sent referral traffic plunging, in some cases by more than half over the past year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reddit alone is paid $60 million a year by Google to let it scrape posts
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  SPEAKER_00: for AI training and is now debating whether that deal is still worth it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.