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WaveOne, a Mountain View-based business working on AI video compression methods, has been secretly bought by Apple. When contacted for comment, Apple declined to confirm the sale. Nevertheless, WaveOne's website was taken down in January, and numerous former staff members, including one of WaveOne's co-founders, are now employed by other machine learning teams inside Apple.
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The CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, gave mainly ineffective evidence before the U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce on Thursday. Instead of seeking to gather accurate information about how TikTok functions or what it does to safeguard its youngest users from danger, representatives were frequently more interested in airing their own opinions, posing for pictures, and yelling over the CEO's responses to their queries.
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At today's Congressional hearing, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew provided some information regarding how the firm screens possible minors who use its platform when being questioned about the company's usage of biometrics. The executive was questioned on how TikTok estimates the age of its users after denying that the app gathers body, face, or voice data to identify its users — beyond what's required for its in-app AR filters to work, that is.
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