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Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the entire team at the maker of photo and video apps, including its founder and CEO — Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …
More: 9to5Mac. Mastodon: @sigmund@mastodon …, @billseitz@toolsforthought …, and @film_girl@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google delayed the public launch of Gemini from next week to January 2024, after finding that the LLM didn't reliably handle some non-English queries — Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …
More: 9to5Google. Threads: @wongmjane. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @HoustonDog@mastodon.world
X: @sebastiannehrd2, @bindureddy, @bertrandduflos, @dimillian, @killedbygoogle, and @jon_victor_. Forums: r/singularity
| Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: |
How a California college is employing data collection tools to track students' daily movements, including e-proctoring software and license plate readers — A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech …
More: The Harvard Crimson. Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon.art, @anand@mastodon.sdf.org, @trent@eigenmagic.net, @thatandromeda@ohai.social, @craignewmark@mastodon.social, and @theADHDAcademic …. Bluesky: @audhdylan.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Sasha Anderson and Tara Garcia Mathewson
| Max Read / Read Max: |
AI doomerism will recede from public consciousness as frequent release of AI models shows that they are harmful in prosaic ways rather than existential ways — The ramifications of OpenAI's boardroom drama — If I'm being honest, my immediate reaction to the news that Sam Altman … | Anthony Ha / Engadget: |
A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads — Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. — YouTube recently took dramatic action …
More: Ars Technica, TechSpot, Android Police, and Android Authority
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @redwireless@mstdn.plus. Bluesky: @feelinglistless.bsky.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/pcmasterrace, r/Adblock, r/webdev, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
A look at Anthropic's governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust that will select most its board — A long-term benefit trust will eventually pick most of Anthropic's board members. Can we trust the structure?| Platformer: |
Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations — Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
More: GeekWire, Business Insider, DatacenterDynamics, and MSPoweruser
Threads: @technicallymims, @drewtipson, @jhsolorzanouio, @goldengateblond, @reporterzoe, @reporterzoe, @andrewwebster, @jonathangarelick, @trevorcroker, and @parkerortolani
Mastodon: @kennwhite@mastodon.social and @kellogh@hachyderm.io
Bluesky: @johnpfaff.bsky.social and @teroterotero.bsky.social
X: @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @simonw, @quinnypig, @simonw, and @emollick
| Alyson Shontell / Fortune: |
A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund — How Joshua Kushner won over Silicon Valley CEOs and built a $5.3 billion venture firm outside his famous family.
X: @luke_metro, @ajs, and @ajs
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systemically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including those by Pichai — On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company's conduct …
More: Thurrott and Android Headlines
| Lewis Gordon / The Verge: |
How Saudi Arabia's investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as it aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports — With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the kingdom's insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are already remaking the global video game industry.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta says it is updating child safety features after a series of WSJ reports, including expanding its list of terms, phrases, and emojis related to child safety — In a blog post published today, Meta says it's expanding and updating its child safety features aimed at protecting kids …
More: Meta, PetaPixel, and TechCrunch
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More: Engadget, The Messenger, and The Information
Threads: @georgescriban. X: @safetechlabs, @jason_kint, @ttp_updates, @jeffhorwitz, @jeffhorwitz, @jeffhorwitz, @ttp_updates, and @wsjtech
| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
The US, UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance — - US, Australian and UK set to test sonar data processed by AI — Plan is part of Aukus security alliance formed to deter ChinaSponsor Posts
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