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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Google unveils Gemini, an AI model with Ultra, Pro, and Nano tiers, and plans a paid chatbot version in 2024; Google says Gemini Ultra beats GPT-4 on most tests — Starting today, Gemini is running on Bard and Google's Pixel 8 Pro phones. The company says it blows OpenAI out of the water.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google updates Bard to use its Gemini Pro model, which the company says represents Bard's “biggest and best upgrade yet” and can match and even exceed ChatGPT — While OpenAI's ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google adds Gemini Nano, its native, local-first LLM, to the Pixel 8 Pro, powering Gboard's Smart Reply and Recorder's auto-summarize, before an Android launch — Gemini may be the biggest, most powerful large language model, or LLM, Google has ever developed, but it's better suited to running in data centers than on your phone.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Gemini, digital agents, changing search's UX, the pace of AI development, coding, and more — CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces its Cloud TPU v5p, an updated version of its Cloud TPU v5e, consisting of 8,960 chips at 4,800 Gpbs/chip interconnect, and available by request — Google today announced the launch of its new Gemini large language model (LLM) and with that, the company also launched its new Cloud TPU v5p …
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple and Google say the US government prevented them from detailing governments' push notification spying, and will now share info after Ron Wyden's letter — Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts Imagine with Meta, a standalone text-to-image generator on the web powered by its Emu model that generates four images per prompt, free for US users — Not to be outdone by Google's Gemini launch, Meta's rolling out a new, standalone generative AI experience on the web … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU leans toward a DMA carve out for iMessage as the app is not popular enough with business users, as part of an investigation ending in February — - EU tentatively finds it doesn't warrant being covered by DMA — New antitrust law imposes raft of Big Tech dos and don'ts
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| Wall Street Journal: |
New Mexico sues Meta, alleging the company let Facebook and Instagram “become a marketplace for predators in search of children”, and blames Mark Zuckerberg — State investigators' test accounts with AI-generated photos were deluged with sexual propositions and adult sex content …
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| Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat: |
Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024, saying the country was “prohibitively expensive” to operate in despite working to reduce costs — Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a revamped iPad Pro with an OLED screen, iPad Airs with 10.9" and 12.9" screens, 13" and 15" MacBook Airs with M3, and more for early 2024 — - New models follow an unprecedented drought in iPad releases — Vision Pro, larger iPhones and new AirPods also coming in 2024
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| Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel publishes and then removes “Core Truths”, a document calling AMD products “snake oil” for using the older Zen 2 architecture in new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs — Look in the mirror Intel — Intel recently published a new playbook titled “Core Truths” …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to cut its merchant fees on clothing items under $15 to 5% and $15 to $20 items to 10% in January 2024, both down from 17%, to compete with Shein — Amazon.com Inc. is sharply cutting fees for merchants selling clothing priced below $20, a sign it's hunkering down for a price war with Chinese fast-fashion upstart Shein.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify away from China — Tech giant wants suppliers to build key component in India as part of broader effort to diversify supply chain
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| TIME: |
Interviews with Sam Altman and 20+ people in his circle reveal a complicated portrait of being brilliant but slippery, as Time names him CEO of the Year 2023 — It was a strange Thanksgiving for Sam Altman. Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family.| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to add its “Help me write” AI tool to Chrome desktop, appearing in autofill popups when typing text, expanding on Messages, Gmail, Docs, and Keep — Over the past few months, Google has been steadily introducing AI tools to its many apps and services.
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase updates Wallet, available in 170+ countries, to let users send crypto via any app where they can share a link, including email, social, and messaging — Recipients need to download a Coinbase Wallet to receive the funds, but the crypto exchange says they've simplified the process for less tech-savvy users.| Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: |
The internet enabled mass surveillance, and AI will enable mass spying, once limited by human labor, by making troves of data searchable and understandable — Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/InfoSecNews
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft plans to offer three additional years of monthly Windows 10 security updates, paid for annually, after the OS' end-of-support date on October 14, 2025 — Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7. — Windows 10's end-of-support date is October 14, 2025.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google updates the Pixel 8 Pro with Video Boost, which uses models in the cloud to adjust videos, and debuts new Pixel features like a Repair Mode for servicing — Google is bringing some sophisticated new AI smarts to the Pixel 8 Pro today, but it's not stopping there.| Reuters: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has been “working very closely with the US government” to create products that comply with US curbs on high-end chip exports to China — SINGAPORE, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) will continue to develop a new set of products that comply … | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
MaintainX, which helps manufacturing and other companies manage operations and maintenance, raised a $50M Series C at a $1B valuation, up from $191M in 2021 — - Bain Capital Ventures leads $50 million investment in firm — McDonald's, Shell, Duracell are among MaintainX's clients
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
SAG-AFTRA members ratify the union's three-year contract with studios after 78% voted in favor; some members remain dissatisfied with the deal's AI protections — The SAG-AFTRA vote formally ends six months of labor strife, though some members were not happy about the contract's artificial intelligence protections.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok releases its 2023 list of top videos and trends, again showing how disparate users' individual experiences are on the app and how siloed its content is — It's the most wonderful time of the year: when TikTok publishes its annual roundup of the biggest hits, and I get to see what everyone else … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
UK carrier EE launches broadband TV platform EE TV, to replace the BT TV service, partnering with Apple to offer an Apple TV 4K with a custom EE remote control — EE TV, a new broadband TV platform from EE, today launched as a BT TV replacement service in the UK, offering subscribers … Sponsor Posts
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