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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Internal documents: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and sometimes had problems recognizing kids, prior to its California permitting crisis — In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
Leaked audio: at an all-hands meeting, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said the company is pausing production of its fully autonomous van Origin, after safety concerns — Reeling from a month in which the California DMV yanked Cruise's permits for its self-driving robotaxis and the company paused all operations … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K-token context window, an April 2023 knowledge cutoff, a JSON mode, new modalities in the API, and 2x to 3x cheaper tokens — Today at its first-ever developer conference, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Turbo, an improved version of its flagship text-generating AI model …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at OpenAI's custom GPT builder, which Sam Altman says the company wants to keep simple for now, and the risks in allowing anyone to create GPT agents — Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real — Today, let's talk about the implications … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A recap of the first day of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial, where both sides made their opening statements and Epic Games Store head Steve Allison testified — The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company's 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its aims to reclaim chip leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company's … | Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta plans to bar political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products, after US lawmakers warn against the spread of misinformation — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio's future under Microsoft, the idea of releasing a game without live components, and more — Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft's huge acquisition …
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Ahead of ex-Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony, internal documents and sources detail debates over fostering growth while protecting young users — A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety| Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
WeWork's bankruptcy caps a years-long saga for Masayoshi Son, who overrode lieutenants' objections to hand Adam Neumann billions, losing SoftBank over $11.5B — - Co-working space's bankruptcy highlights billionaire's hubris — Few checks on SoftBank CEO as he prepares to go on offensive
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony plans to terminate X integration on the PS5 and the PS4 as of November 13, meaning that users will not be able to post and view X content from the consoles — Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won't be able to post screenshots and clips to X from those consoles.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Shein aims for an $80B to $90B valuation in its US IPO, vs. a $50B to $60B valuation in recent private trades; Shein was valued at $100B in April 2022 — - Timing of Shein's IPO remains uncertain given volatile market — Valuation dropped to $50 billion in recent private trades
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink after FDA trial approval: huge media coverage compared to rivals and worries over hype, but its tech is exciting and potentially miraculous — Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people's heads—and not just figuratively. — Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
AI startup Vectara's Hallucination Evaluation Model: OpenAI's LLMs had the lowest hallucination rates, followed by Meta's; Google's PaLM-Chat had the highest — When summarizing facts, ChatGPT technology makes things up about 3 percent of the time, according to research from a new start-up.
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
A survey of 167 researchers shows that 104 studies about X were canceled, suspended, or changed after X ended free academic access to its API and sued the CCDH — Social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales from April to September grew 2% YoY to 6.84M — - Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday as it continues to get a bump from the …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Baidu ordered AI chips from Huawei in 2023 to shift away from Nvidia; a source says Baidu ordered 1,600 Ascend 910B chips, worth ~$62M, for 200 servers — Baidu (9888.HK) ordered artificial intelligence chips from Huawei (HWT.UL) this year, two people familiar with the matter said …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
After Big Tech cut thousands of trust and safety staff, Sero AI and other outsourcing startups sell the services, which experts warn bring problems of their own — The burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems of their own.| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Sources: Pico plans to cut “hundreds” of jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since ByteDance acquired the VR unit in 2021, as global headset demand weakens — ByteDance's virtual reality (VR) arm Pico will cut jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since it was acquired … Sponsor Posts
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