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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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LinkedIn: Vijay B. and Ali Arsanjani, PhD
Forums: r/singularity, r/ChatGPTPro, r/artificial, and r/OpenAI
| 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/Android, r/GooglePixel, and r/GooglePixel
| 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/artificial, r/Bard, and r/GoogleBard
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Mat Honan / MIT Technology Review: |
| 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| 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| 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.
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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 …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| 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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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Sources: Bungie's recent layoffs came alongside a scramble to avoid a total Sony takeover, which could happen if Bungie doesn't meet certain financial goals — The Destiny 2 and Marathon developer may not be able to cling to the last of its independence forever.
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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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| 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
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| 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| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/hardware, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| 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
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Forums: r/windows and r/Windows11
| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank-backed travel booking service Klook raised a $210M Series E+, taking its total funding to $900M+, after turning cash flow positive in mid-2023 — Private equity firm BPEA EQT and SMIC SG Holdings participated, the Hong Kong-based startup said in a statement on Thursday.| Corey Quinn / Last Week in AWS: |
AWS' re:Invent showed it lags behind in the generative AI space, as half of the announcements are still in preview and were seemingly developed in a rush — AWS has been very publicly insecure about the perception that it's lagging behind in the Generative AI space for the past year.
X: @quinnypig and @quinnypig
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google posts instructions for restoring files in Google Drive for desktop, after users reported last week that some of their files disappeared from the service — Google has a solution for the sync issue that caused files to disappear for some users on Drive for desktop.
More: Google Help Center, Engadget, Neowin, Android Central, Pixel Envy, Android Headlines, AppleInsider, and 9to5Google. X: @richontech
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