Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

Digg has officially launched its open beta, marking a significant reboot of the platform under original founders Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian. Previously accessible to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis, the site aims to position itself as a competitor to Reddit by enhancing community engagement and user interaction.

Bandcamp has officially banned music that is created wholly or in substantial part by artificial intelligence, emphasizing its commitment to ensuring that the music on its platform is authentically human-made. This decision reflects the company's desire to maintain trust among fans and support musicians in their creative endeavors.

Google has launched a new beta feature for its AI model, Gemini, called 'Personal Intelligence,' which allows the AI to proactively respond to users by analyzing their emails, photos, and other data, contingent on user consent. This feature is currently off by default, giving users control over their data integration with Gemini.

AI security firm depthfirst has announced the successful completion of a $40 million Series A funding round, aimed at enhancing its AI-native platform to combat security threats faced by companies. The funding was led by Accel, with a focus on long-term investment in the firm's growth.

Experts warn that the use of AI to create harmful sexualized imagery, particularly targeting women and children, is just beginning, as evidenced by the controversial Grok AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI. Despite recent attempts to implement safeguards, users continue to exploit the tool for generating explicit content.

A recent study introduced ValAct-15k, a dataset comprising 3,000 advice-seeking scenarios from Reddit, aimed at evaluating how Large Language Models (LLMs) represent and enact human values based on Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values. The study assessed ten frontier LLMs from both U.S. and Chinese companies, revealing a significant knowledge-action gap where both LLMs and human participants exhibited weak correspondence between self-reported and enacted values.

A new dataset named IndRegBias has been introduced to study regional biases in English and code-mixed comments on social media platforms like Reddit and YouTube, focusing on Indian contexts. This dataset comprises 25,000 comments that reflect regional biases, which have been less explored compared to other social biases such as gender and race.