Besides vacuuming up all sorts of text from around the web, plus pictures, insatiable large language models, or AI, have apparently been scouring YouTube videos as they are trained. Theverge.com reports that Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce have used ‘YouTube Subtitles’ data that was grabbed from the platform without permission. The training data was collected from videos belonging to over 48,000 channels…no imagery from videos was included. The data doesn’t just come from individual creators, but also the likes of news outlets including ABC News, BBC and a major New York paper. 

A new leak with clear photos has given up a lot of information about the upcoming Google Pixel 9 phones. According to androidpolice.com, the leak came out of an NCC regulatory filing. First off, there’s a less apparent crease in the Pixel 9 Pro Fold…and a completely redesigned hinge. Views of Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and Pixel Pro XL in live videos show the redesigned camera bar. Also in the filing is a new 45 watt Google branded charging brick…suggesting that at least one Pixel 9 model will hit 45 watt charging speeds. Battery sizes are listed, and are all up to over 4542 mAh. There are still a few reveals left for the Made by Google event coming up in under a month…we don’t know for sure about the chipset and pricing. 

And the hacks just keep on coming! Rite Aid says a data breach has exposed the sensitive details of 2.2 million customers. Arstechnica.com notes that the personal information includes drivers’ license numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. The stolen date is apparently associated with purchases or attempted purchases made between June 6, 2017 and July 30th, 2018. At least no social security numbers, financial information, or patient information was grabbed in the breach. Someone impersonated an employee and was able “to compromise their business credentials and gain access to certain business systems,” Rite Aid reported in a filing to several states attorneys general.  “We detected the incident within 12 hours and immediately launched an internal investigation to terminate the unauthorized access, remediate affected systems and ascertain if any customer data was impacted.”

Angry about a law signed in California this week preventing schools from outing trans kids to parents, Elon Musk is saying he will move the headquarters of X, formerly Twitter, and SpaceX to Texas. Techcrunch.com reports that Musk plans to relocate X to Austin, and SpaceX to Starbase, where the company has their Starship manufacturing and test site. X has been in San Francisco since its founding as Twitter in 2006. SpaceX has a large production facility in Hawthorne for its Falcon and Dragon Spacecraft, in addition to Mission Control, which likely won’t be moving. The same has been true with Tesla…although Musk moved its headquarters to Austin in 2021, the main car plant remains in Fremont. 

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ’Technified’ for now.