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Happy Wednesday, everyone! The EU is serious about regulating tech, and giants like Microsoft and Apple are quickly realizing it. Is the US lagging in protecting its users? Also, Claude AI introduces new collaboration features worth checking out, and porn deepfakes have sunk to a new low—be extremely cautious. Let's dive in.

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• 📰 News and Trends.

• Are Claude AI New Collaboration Features Better Than ChatGPT’s?

• Apple engineer designs new AI email organizer*

• Regulating Big Tech

• 🧰 AI Tools (Real Estate)

• Publications we recommend.

• Deepfake Abuse Reaches New Low.

📰 AI News and Trends

• Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued (404)

• U.S. sanctions disrupt Huawei's AI chip production, impacting broader Chinese tech ambitions in AI (TheInformation)

• Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model and could compete with Nvidia (TC)

• New Google AI experiment could let you chat with celebrities, YouTube influencers (AA)

🌐 Other Tech news

• Volkswagen invest $5 Billions in EV Automaker Rivian (Yahoo)

• Tesla Cybertruck recalled again, this time over faulty wiper and trim (TheVerge)

• Google discontinues continuous scrolling on desktop and plans to end it on mobile, reintroducing pagination “Click Next” to speed up search result delivery (TheVerge)

• Lithium mining in Argentina's salt flats divides Indigenous communities, pitting EV battery’s high demand against local environmental concerns (TheGuardian)

Are Claude AI New Collaboration Features Better Than ChatGPT’s?

Anthropic has launched new collaboration features for its AI assistant Claude, including "Projects" and "Artifacts." These features aim to enhance team productivity and knowledge management:

1. Projects: Allows teams to centralize documents, code, and insights in one place, with a 200,000-token context window.

2. Artifacts: Enables seamless content creation and editing alongside conversations with Claude.

3. Enhanced sharing: Offers granular permission settings for secure collaboration.

4. Improved context understanding: Helps Claude provide more tailored assistance by learning from organization-specific information.

The update focuses on integrating AI into existing workflows, addressing data security concerns, and improving content creation and analysis efficiency.

Comparison to ChatGPT features:

1. Context window: Claude's 200,000-token context is significantly larger than ChatGPT's, allowing for more comprehensive understanding of organizational knowledge.

2. Collaboration tools: While ChatGPT offers some collaboration features, Claude's Projects and Artifacts seem more focused on team-based workflows and knowledge management.

3. Customization: Claude's ability to learn from organization-specific information appears more advanced than ChatGPT's current capabilities.

4. Enterprise focus: Anthropic seems to be targeting enterprise users more directly with these features, whereas ChatGPT has a broader user base.

5. Content creation: Both assistants offer content creation capabilities, but Claude's Artifacts feature may provide a more seamless experience for iterative work.

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Regulating Big Tech

The European Union has established itself as a global leader in regulating Big Tech, implementing comprehensive laws like the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) to address digital market issues. This proactive approach contrasts with the United States, which has traditionally relied on existing antitrust laws that may be less suited to modern tech challenges.

The EU's aggressive enforcement strategy is evident in recent actions against Microsoft and Apple, with the former accused of illegally bundling Teams with Office products, and the latter becoming the first company charged under the DMA for potential App Store policy violations.

These cases highlight the EU's focus on consumer protection, data privacy, and fair competition, often acting preemptively to prevent market power abuses. However, the balance between regulation and innovation remains a key question as these policies evolve to protect users while potentially impacting technological advancement.

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Real Estate

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Deepfake Abuse Reaches New Low.

In a disturbing new low, a major deepfake sexual abuse website has hosted videos that combine footage from the notorious GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking operation with artificially generated celebrity faces. This practice not only creates new victims but also revictimizes survivors of sex trafficking. 

The GirlsDoPorn operation, which ran from 2012 to 2019, coerced women into making pornographic videos under pretenses, leading to multiple legal actions against its operators. The deepfake videos, which received thousands of views before being removed, may have been created using an AI startup's face-swapping tool despite prohibitions against such use. There are lots of heartless humans in this world and current legal protections do not address the evolving threat of deepfake sexual abuse, we have to be more aware of what we post as anything can end up as a deepfake these days, and if you have little ones be aware of what content they are consuming as teens are very curious about this type of content.