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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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Forums: r/singularity, r/artificial, r/ChatGPTPro, r/OpenAI, and Beehaw
| 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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Forums: r/Bard, r/artificial, and r/GoogleBard
| 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
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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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Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/GooglePixel, and r/Android
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Mat Honan / MIT Technology Review: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple and Google confirm that foreign governments have demanded smartphone push notifications data, after US senator Ron Wyden revealed the practice in a letter — Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Apple guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain the Apple ID associated with a push notification token via a subpoena; Google requires a court order — Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday
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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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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD launches Instinct MI300X and MI300A AI accelerators and claims the MI300X delivers up to 1.6x more performance than Nvidia's H100 HGX in inference workloads — AMD's chiplet strategy comes to fore. — AMD launched its Instinct MI300X AI accelerator and the Instinct MI300A … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
| Jonny Evans / Computerworld: |
Apple's machine learning research team quietly releases MLX, an array framework to train and deploy ML models on Apple silicon, available on GitHub — Apple's machine learning (ML) teams quietly flexed their muscle with the release of a new ML framework developed for Apple Silicon.
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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 …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers unveil LogoFAIL, an attack that defeats UEFI boot protections in nearly all Windows and Linux computers and can be remotely executed in many cases — UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images. — Hundreds of Windows and Linux computer models …
More: Binarly, Insyde Software, BGR, Tom's Hardware, and SecurityWeek
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Steve Hotelling, the Apple VP overseeing technologies like touchscreen, health sensors, and Face ID, and one of the inventors of Touch ID, is retiring — - Steve Hotelling oversaw many key technologies at Apple — Executive was a top deputy under hardware boss Johny Srouji| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bitzlato co-founder Anatoly Legkodymov pleads guilty in the US to operating a money transmitting business for illicit funds and agrees to dissolve the exchange — Anatoly Legkodymov says he'll dissolve the sanctioned exchange as part of his plea. — Register Now
More: US Department of Justice, Blockworks, The Block, Cointelegraph, TechStartups, and CoinGape
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default, for one-on-one chats and calls; E2EE for group chats remains opt-in — Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally fulfilling a promise that's been in the works for quite awhile.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
MIT spinoff Liquid AI, which aims to build AI systems powered by liquid neural networks, emerges from stealth with a $37.6M seed at a $303M post-money valuation — An MIT spinoff co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively …
More: New.blicio.us, SiliconANGLE, Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe, WRAL TechWire, and Liquid AI
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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 … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans the next major Windows version for 2024, with an AI-powered Windows Shell, an “advanced Copilot”, natural language search, and more — What's next for Windows? Microsoft plans next-gen Windows AI release in 2024, plus details on recent changes to the Windows roadmap
More: Notebookcheck, Neowin, XDA Developers, PCWorld, and Thurrott
X: @compusemble, @zacbowden, and @zacbowden
Forums: r/windows and r/Windows11
| 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.
More: Wired and Unchained Crypto
X: @gregbensinger, @billyperrigo, @aaltman82, @kristileilani, @samraskinz, @annmarie, and @time
Forums: r/singularity, r/popculturechat, and r/georgism
| 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
More: MacRumors, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, Android Central, BGR, Ars Technica, Android Authority, and Fortune
X: @cschmon and @florian4gamers
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
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