Monday, December 16, 2024

Welcome to TC PM! Today we've got the details on Veo 2, Google DeepMind's new video-generating platform; Tesla's new Model S deal makes us scratch our heads; and we get the details on ConnectOnCall's data breach. Let's make it a great week!

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📹 You get a video model, you get a video model: Exactly one week after OpenAI announced its video model, Sora, Google's DeepMind announced Veo 2, a video-generating AI platform. We've got all the details. Read more

🧮 The math doesn't add up: In an effort to sell some Model S cars before the year ends, Tesla is once again offering free lifetime charging to some owners. This is nice, but the car's price also just went up by $5,000. Read more

🧐 Well, that didn't work out: Security company Arctic Wolf announced it acquired antivirus software provider Cylance from BlackBerry for $160 million. BlackBerry's CEO called the transaction a win for shareholders, but considering BlackBerry bought Cylance for $1.4 billion in 2018, I don't know about that. Read more

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Afternoon must-reads

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🛒Shopping free? Apple today released its annual list of top apps and games, based on downloads, and Chinese shopping app Temu was the most downloaded app for the second year in a row. How many people are actually buying things on it, though? It once served me an ad on X for an excavator. I didn't buy it. Read more

🩺 Back to WebMD, I guess: ConnectOnCall, a digital answering service for healthcare providers that answers calls after hours, is alerting customers about a security breach back in May that compromised patients' medical and personal data. Read more

🤓 Smart specs: Meta released a whole host of new updates to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. The updates include the ability to have a continual conversation with AI, and users can also ask the AI questions about what they are seeing in real life. Read more

🕹️ Control for content creators: YouTube is giving its creators more control over whether AI is allowed to train off their content. Creators who have access to the YouTube Studio Content Manager can pick and choose which AI companies have authorization. Read more

🤑 More money for creators: Snapchat is announcing a new monetization strategy for its creators, which will reward them for the content they post to both Stories and Spotlight. This combines what used to be separate programs. Read more

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Around the web

🧑‍💻 Arm CEO on AI and more: Rene Haas, the CEO of chip company Arm, chatted with The Verge about everything from Arm's relationship with Intel, to his thoughts on the AI czar, to China. Read more

🏃‍♀️ Rush to pass: Texas senator Ted Cruz is pushing for the House to sign a bill he introduced that would criminalize AI porn and require social media and tech companies to remove it within 48 hours. Read more