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Research: ChatGPT uses an estimated 500ml of water for every five to 50 prompts; Microsoft disclosed the company's water use spiked 34% YoY in 2022, Google 20% — The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed …
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Sources: Meta plans to begin training an LLM in Q1 2024 on its own infrastructure that it hopes will be roughly as capable as OpenAI's GPT-4 — Parent of Facebook and Instagram wants artificial-intelligence system to be as capable as OpenAI's most advanced model — Platforms is setting its sights on OpenAI.
More: Livemint, WABetaInfo, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, BigTechWire, Reuters, TheSequence, and WinBuzzer
Forums: r/MachineLearning and r/singularity
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NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users suggests X is throttling posts linking to the NYT, with “weekly average shares per article” down ~75% from July's peak — X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users' access to The New York Times.
Threads: @drewharwell and @goldengateblond. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social
X: @tomcoates and @minimaxir
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More: Ars Technica, The Verge, PCMag, Mashable, Techdirt, United States District Court Eastern District of California Sacramento Division, Insider, Los Angeles Times, Tech Xplore, Social Media Today, Reclaim The Net, Engadget, TechCrunch, Associated Press, The Hill, Chamber of Progress, and Reuters
Bluesky: @chamberofprogress.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, and @mmasnick.bsky.social
X: @globalaffairs, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, and @elonmusk
Forums: r/business, r/politics, and r/law
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
An expected high-end iPhone price increase and features like iPhone 15 Pro Max's periscope lens show Apple is getting more aggressive with its premium strategy — Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 15 on Tuesday, alongside updated watches and AirPods. And once again, the company …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, CNN, AppleInsider, Supercharged, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, and CNET
Mastodon: @marcoarment@mastodon.social. X: @markgurman, @parkerortolani, @tailosivetech, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman. Forums: r/apple
| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group CEO Daniel Zhang steps down, after assuming the role in June 2023; Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu becomes the unit's acting chair and CEO — China's Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Sunday that Daniel Zhang will step down from its cloud business, in a surprise move …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Register, The Information, CNBC, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, New York Times, Nikkei Asia, and ChinaTechNews.com. Bluesky: @epro.social
| Molly White / Web3 is Going Just Great: |
Vitalik Buterin's X account was hacked to promote a crypto scam, leading to an estimated $650K+ of assets being stolen; the tweet was deleted within 20 minutes — The Twitter account belonging to Vitalik Buterin, inventor and effective leader of the Ethereum project, was hacked to promote a crypto scam.
More: Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, crypto.news, DL News, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, TheBitTimes.Com's Newsletter, and CoinGape
X: @cz_binance, @zachxbt, @zachxbt, @wublockchain, @punk9059, @zeneca, @josephmenn, @bobloukas, @dubzyxbt, @0xquit, and @web3isgreat
| Walter Isaacson / CNBC: |
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips — The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12.
More: The Verge and Axios
Mastodon: @Silversalty@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @epro.social. X: @neilcybart, @elonmusk, @heydave7, @arpitrage, @dhaval_shroff, @heydave7, @scottmoura, @ai_newsflash, @mrxmusk, and @simonkp
LinkedIn: Pranab Ghosh, Tim Schnurr, Salem Bagami, and Florian Minderop
Forums: r/elonmusk, r/teslainvestorsclub, r/teslamotors, r/TSLA, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: |
Dennis Austin, PowerPoint's principal developer who continued to lead the presentation software's team until he retired in 1996, died on September 1 at age 76 — The program was the digital successor of the overhead projector. It became one of the most ubiquitous and scorned programs of modern office life.
More: The Verge, Boing Boing, Thurrott, and Neowin
Forums: Hacker News, r/consulting, r/news, and Slashdot
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
How Lisbon's quality of life, crypto-friendly tax laws, and government incentives for foreigners have made the city one of the crypto capitals of the world — - Quality of life, bitcoin-friendly tax laws and a huge influx of expats have made Lisbon one of the crypto capitals of the world.| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes — Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things.
X: @kashhill, @sociogeeks_, @benfteresa, @bronwynwilliams, @sweis, @zittrain, and @kashhill
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021 — The grocery-delivery company aims for $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion, down from $39 billion in 2021.
More: CNBC and Bloomberg
Threads: @carnage4life. X: @buccocapital, @iankar_, @abarrallen, @rakeshlobster, and @thewealthhunter
| Reuters: |
Sources: US chipmakers and companies, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Google, plan to attend a September 11 meeting in Hanoi as Biden visits to boost ties — Top U.S. semiconductors and digital companies including Intel, GlobalFoundries and Google are expected to attend a business meeting … Sponsor Posts
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