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Google has edited Gemini’s AI response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about cheese. The ad, which shows a small business owner using Gemini to write a website description about Gouda, no longer says the variety makes up “50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.”

Last March, Apple filed a lawsuit against one of its former employees, an iOS Software Engineer who had leaked confidential information to The Wall Street Journal and The Information. Almost a year later, that lawsuit has just been dismissed and the engineer has issued an apology.

Elon Musk's social media platform X must release information enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying information on the network, a German court ruled on Friday. The Berlin district court issued its ruling in response to an urgent filing brought earlier this week by two civil rights groups who said they need the data to let them track misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany's February 23 national election.

TSMC, the world's top contract chipmaker, has been informing Chinese customers that use the company's 16-nanometer or better production technologies that it cannot ship orders to them unless they use chip packaging services from a supplier on a U.S. "white list" of approved businesses, two people told Nikkei Asia.

The draft statement barely mentions AI risks, seemingly confirming AI experts’ fears that the Paris Summit will be a missed opportunity for world leaders to tackle AI safety. It fails to follow up on commitments countries made at previous Summits, and does not lay out any roadmap for doing so in future.

The move would enable law enforcement and security services to tap iPhone back-ups and other cloud data that is otherwise inaccessible, even to Apple itself. The law has extraterritorial powers, meaning UK law enforcement could access the encrypted data of Apple customers anywhere in the world, including in the US.

According to Jean-Rémi King, leader of Meta’s “Brain & AI” research team, the system is able to determine what letter a skilled typist has pressed as much as 80% of the time, an accuracy high enough to reconstruct full sentences from the brain signals.

The auction, which Christie’s is calling ‘Augmented Intelligence,’ will feature artwork from artists including Mat Dryhurst, the founder of AI startup, Spawning AI. A robot that paints live is set to be the exhibition’s centerpiece at Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries in New York, beginning February 20.

Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab is set to release its long-awaited - and delayed - Alexa generative artificial intelligence voice service, said three people familiar with the matter, and has scheduled a press event for later this month to preview it. Once released, it would mark the most significant upgrade to the product since its initial introduction accelerated a wave of digital assistants more than a decade ago. Amazon on Wednesday sent press invites to an event to be held on February 26 in New York featuring the head of its devices and services team, Panos Panay. A spokesperson said the event is Alexa-focused, while declining to elaborate