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Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok, an AI model that the startup says surpasses rivals 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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A look at companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, to potential US Copyright Office rules for 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese startup 01.AI, launched in March 2023 by computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee, reaches a $1B+ valuation and releases its AI model Yi-34B in Chinese and English — - 01.AI's model outperforms Meta's Llama 2 on certain metrics — Startup to offer open-source model; proprietary options later
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| Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian: |
WhatsApp's AI generates stickers of kids with guns when prompted with “Palestine”, but prompts for “Israeli” generate stickers of people who are mostly smiling — A WhatsApp feature that generates images in response to users' searches returns a picture of a gun …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Epic's case against Google Play's app payment restrictions goes to trial in San Francisco, after Google settled with Match on October 31 ahead of a trial — The maker of Fortnite is suing the search giant as it is defending a DoJ antitrust case — The long-running attempt by Epic Games … | David Gilbert / Wired: |
A look at CulturePulse, which is building an AI model to create a virtual version of Israel and Palestinian territories and has signed a nine-month UN contract — CulturePulse's AI model promises to create a realistic virtual simulation of Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru, Clara Lin Hawking, and Nanjira Sambuli
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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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, and r/MachineLearning
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind Head of Robotics Vincent Vanhoucke on the robotics team's history, general purpose robots, generative AI's role in robotics, and more — [A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch's robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.]| 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
| Akinobu Iwasawa / Nikkei Asia: |
LexisNexis: IBM had 6,363 cybersecurity patents as of August 2023, followed by Huawei with 5,735 and Tencent with 4,803; six of the top 10 companies are Chinese — Chinese companies account for 6 of top 10 in field while IBM remains No. 1 — Chinese companies have made headway …
More: Huawei Central and CNBC
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As Block struggles and SQ drops 80% since 2021, Jack Dorsey becomes more hands-on, including running Square and sending his first shareholder letter in years — The payments company is under pressure. The often-distant CEO says he is stepping back into the ring. — Jack Dorsey has been notoriously hands-off.
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| 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.
More: T3 and The Verge
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