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Elon Musk's xAI releases its AI model Grok, which it says surpasses other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users — Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A look at AI companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, to possible US Copyright Office changes around AI and copyrighted content — The biggest companies in AI aren't interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why.
More: Insider, Ars Technica, and Techdirt
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| New York Times: |
Sources: GM spent an average of $588M per quarter on Cruise over the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist its vehicles every 2.5 to five miles — Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow about its C.E.O.'s expansion plans.
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| Mike Young / AIModels.fyi: |
Researchers say AI models like GPT-4 respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context because of how these models handle nuanced prompts — Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context — In the grand narrative …
More: Arxiv, The Decoder, The Keygen, and Stack Diary
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LinkedIn: Ryan A., Fernando Rubio Román, Nemunas A., and Daniel Tunkelang
Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, and r/MachineLearning
| TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with Google Play Protect's real-time scanning for sideloaded Android apps, which didn't stop five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing — Here's our hands-on review of the new Android security feature — Android's in-built security engine Google Play Protect …
More: MacRumors, The Tech Report, and MakeUseOf
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Emails: X began work on a marketplace for purchasing account handles that have been left unused, asking for a $50K flat fee from potential buyers in some cases — Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
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X: @anthony, @lmatsakis, @howardlindzon, @karaswisher, @edzitron, @rmac18, and @alexrkonrad. LinkedIn: Larry Walsh. Forums: r/Twitter
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A look at the gap between Amazon's dazzling drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects can be delivered when the weather allows — Amazon's much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways. Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone.
Threads: @alexkantrowitz. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @waldoj@mastodon.social, and @seriouslyjeff@social.jeffl.es
X: @dariustahir, @counternotions, and @garywockner
LinkedIn: Venky Rao, Drew Keith, Stephen Chen, Piers Fawkes, Craig Gottlieb, Dave Edwards, Joseph Bute, and Joey Durham. Forums: Slashdot
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Okta's autopsy report on its support system breach understated the role of a badly configured service account, the biggest contributing factor to the breach — If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong. — Identity and authentication management provider Okta …
More: Okta Security, SecurityWeek, DataBreachToday.com, and SC Media
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LinkedIn: Christopher …, Joe H., Sagar Malviya, Bart Bailey, CISSP, Erka Koivunen, Robin Lennon, and Ryan Naraine. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, deepfake detection issues, and more — Instead of detecting fakes, this effort aims to authenticate and track online images from the start; Adobe's chief trust officer on the strategy
X: @julesurbach. LinkedIn: Leah Lathrop, Jeff Frick, Jenny Ferrara, William Allen, Michael Murray, and Milton Pedraza
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform that will be “contractually obligated” to honor creator royalties on NFT sales — Magic Eden's new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties. What does that mean for traders?
More: Yuga Labs, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, DL News, The Block, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, CoinStats, and CoinJournal
Bluesky: @marxculture.bsky.social and @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. LinkedIn: David Li. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How chip companies are experimenting with obscure materials, like synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips — To beat the heat that our devices throw off, engineers are experimenting with synthetic diamonds, ultrapure glass and other obscure materials
More: Tom's Hardware. Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social. X: @nuclear94. LinkedIn: Tim Murray, Marcus Hall, Vasily Lennikov, and Paul Baessler
| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
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