Google’s VaultGemma, TikTok Shakeup, Perplexity API, Anthropic Hiring, EA Sale, YouTube AI Hosts

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VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM
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• VaultGemma is a 1 billion-parameter model trained from scratch using differential privacy, offering strong privacy guarantees while maintaining utility.

• Google also introduced scaling laws for differentially private models, showing how compute, model size, and privacy budgets interact.

• The model and its weights have been open-sourced for researchers and practitioners to explore privacy-first LLMs.

ByteDance expected to maintain big role in new US TikTok
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• In the planned U.S. restructuring of TikTok, ByteDance is expected to retain a significant minority stake and continue to oversee advertising and e-commerce operations.

• The new U.S. entity would control user data, the algorithm, and content, with retraining and monitoring under U.S. oversight.

• This setup may conflict with U.S. law that requires a full separation of TikTok from ByteDance’s control.

Perplexity launches massive search API to take on Google’s dominance
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• Perplexity has launched a massive Search API that provides access to hundreds of billions of web pages with real-time indexing and AI-powered results.

• The API is positioned as a challenger to Google, especially for integrating search with generative reasoning in apps.

• Its pricing and performance are designed to be more developer-friendly compared to established offerings.

Anthropic to triple international workforce in global AI push
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• Anthropic plans to triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI teams fivefold.

• About 80% of usage of its Claude models comes from outside the U.S., showing strong international demand.

• The company is opening and expanding offices in Asia and Europe to localize operations.

EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion
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• Electronic Arts is reportedly in advanced talks to be taken private in a deal worth up to 50 billion dollars.

• The buyer group may include Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners.

• If finalized, it would be one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history, underscoring gaming industry consolidation.

YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary
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• YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that provide trivia, commentary, and stories related to the music being played.

• The feature is being trialed with select users in the U.S. to measure engagement.

• This reflects Google’s broader strategy to infuse AI into its platforms and make content consumption more interactive.