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Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that future versions of Claude will generate text that includes watermarks showing it was AI-generated. At the time, Anthropic did not explain how this would work, leaving us to speculate on the podcast: Would it somehow encode this into the text? Include invisible characters? Do something with the metadata? We now know, thanks to a blog post over the weekend, that Anthropic will do this by changing how its AI writes altogether.
https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/

Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook

Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks. Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during Google’s Android Show. But we do know this is a major new initiative in the laptop space for Google, seemingly designed to succeed Chromebooks with something more capable: a platform running a long-rumored new operating system based on a fusion of Android and ChromeOS.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/928479/google-googlebook-laptops-android-tease-aluminium-chromebook

Why everyone’s talking about the Cadillac Championship trophy

At first glance, the new trophy for the Cadillac Championship golf tournament looks like your average abstract design; a nicely curved tall geometric shape. But look closer, and you'll find several ingenious golf references in its DNA. Designed by Cadillac Design studio and GM Industrial Design, the 20-inch trophy is intended to capture a sense of "motion, tension, and precision". The reference? A golfer's swing.
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/product-design/why-everyones-talking-about-the-cadillac-championship-trophy

Humanoid robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating human half-marathon record

A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The performance by the robot marked a significant step forward from last year's inaugural race, during which the winning robot finished in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds.
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/humanoid-robot-sprints-victory-beijing-beating-human-half-132179294

Chrome’s new feature makes life easier for people with a million open tabs

The company announced this week that it’s beginning to roll out an option for users to stack their tabs in a panel on the left side of the browser instead of horizontally at the top. While Chrome might not get to features like vertical tabs first, when it ships them, it reaches a mass audience. Chrome is far and away the most popular browser, with about 66% market share worldwide, according to Statcounter GlobalStats, a web analytics firm.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91523724/chrome-vertical-tabs

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a recent trial told 404 Media.
https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

Can Adobe’s new custom Firefly models finally tame AI?

These let users generate images and content designed to align with your brand or aesthetic – for example, using a consistent character design or set of icons. Perhaps the main reason many are hesitant to use generative AI is the unpredictability of the output, but custom models might just change that. And now they're available in public beta.
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/design-software/can-adobes-new-custom-firefly-models-finally-tame-ai