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In today's Techpresso:
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👷 Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work 👉 Apple readies its first ever touch-screen MacBook 🛑 OpenAI suspends Sora depictions of Martin Luther King Jr 🚓 Amazon Ring cameras are moving deeper into law enforcement 📉 AI bots and summaries hurt Wikipedia traffic ⚠️ Massive data leak of US officials 🎁 + 16 other news you might like 🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
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👷 Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work
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- Anthropic introduced Skills, which are folders containing a Markdown file and scripts that give Claude specific instructions for handling specialized tasks like creating documents or using certain tools.
- To be token efficient, the model first reads a short explanation for each Skill from its frontmatter YAML, only loading the complete details when a user's request requires them.
- Since the feature depends on having a filesystem to execute commands, anyone can build and distribute Skills as simple files, effectively turning Claude into a general automation agent.
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👉 Apple readies its first ever touch-screen MacBook
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- Apple is reportedly developing its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, which is expected to launch with the M6 chip sometime in late 2026 or early 2027 for a premium price.
- This high-end laptop will reportedly mark the debut of an OLED screen, also swapping the controversial top notch for a more modern "hole-punch design" similar to the iPhone.
- To address the common wobble issue on touch laptops, Apple is creating a "reinforced hinge and screen hardware" so the panel does not bounce back when you tap it.
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🛑 OpenAI suspends Sora depictions of Martin Luther King Jr
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- OpenAI suspended video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. in Sora at the request of his estate after people used the app to create disrespectful depictions.
- The content that prompted the action included Sora-made videos of King making monkey noises during a speech and another showing him wrestling with civil rights leader Malcolm X.
- The company is now strengthening its guardrails and allows representatives for other historical figures to ask for their likenesses not to be used in the AI videos.
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🚓 Amazon Ring cameras are moving deeper into law enforcement
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- Amazon's Ring is partnering with the AI camera network Flock, letting law enforcement agencies request doorbell video from users for evidence collection and their investigative work.
- Flock's AI technology scans license plates and lets government customers search footage for people by description; agencies like ICE and the Secret Service already have access.
- The deal could expand Flock's reach to millions more cameras, despite Ring's past FTC order over employees having unrestricted access to customers' private videos for years.
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📉 AI bots and summaries hurt Wikipedia traffic
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- After making its bot detection more accurate, Wikimedia's data reveals an eight percent year-over-year drop in page views, a decline it attributes to generative AI search summaries.
- The foundation warns this traffic decline could lead to fewer volunteers, less funding for the site, and ultimately a drop in the quality and reliability of its content.
- Wikimedia is asking LLMs and search engines to clearly state where information is sourced from and make it easier for people to visit and contribute to the original articles.
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⚠️ Massive data leak of US officials
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- A hacking group called “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” publicly released names, phone numbers, and residential addresses for hundreds of federal government employees at the DHS, FBI, and DOJ.
- The dump contained spreadsheets detailing the information of 680 DHS officials and over 170 FBI email addresses, with some data corroborated by a cybersecurity firm.
- The hackers posted taunting messages referencing Mexican cartels and money, while also threatening to release sensitive data in the future belonging to the Internal Revenue Service.
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Anthropic connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive
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Trending
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Datapizza AI: an open-source framework for building and debugging generative AI applications that use multiple agents or retrieve information from documents.
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Every Language Model Has a Forgery-Resistant Signature: this paper shows that all AI language models leave a unique and difficult-to-forge statistical signature on the text they produce.
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