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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini's public launch from next week to January 2024; a source says the LLM doesn'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: Business Insider, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Decoder, and MSPoweruser
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| New York Times: |
A deep dive into the founding of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as many of their backers feared the risks of advanced AI, but hoped to safely shape it — The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.
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| Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: |
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, 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 …
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| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Kiss' three current members reveal digital avatars of themselves, created by Pophouse and George Lucas' ILM, which will tour as the rock band stops live touring — On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.
More: Associated Press, PCMag, BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Bloomberg, Fast Company, and The Hollywood Reporter
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @eddietrunk, @benshotonfilm, @fridayinhalifax, @toastydecline, @andreelijah, @kiss, @footofaferret, and @anshelsag. Forums: r/entertainment
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Researchers show AI misalignment in a GPT-4-based stock trading bot that performed insider trading in a simulated environment without being instructed to do so — Also OpenAI's board, kangaroo grazing and bank box-checking. — AI MNPI — Here you go, insider trading robot:
More: arXiv and Schneier on Security
| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the photo and video app maker's entire team, including founder and CEO Neill Barham — Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and 9to5Mac
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Evernote
| 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, and Android Police
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Forums: Hacker News, r/pcmasterrace, r/Adblock, r/webdev, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Chase Bank could be an ideal Goldman Sachs replacement for Apple Card, as it uses the same Mastercard network and already has a strong relationship with Apple — Apple and Goldman Sachs are on the verge of splitting up, and Chase is the ideal partner to step in.| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, says it closed a minority stake sale to investors led by Fidelity; sources: the sale values CoreWeave at $7B — - IMCO, JPMorgan Asset Management, Zoom Ventures bet on startup — Nvidia, Magnetar Capital are among its existing investors| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Documents: OpenAI signed a letter of intent in 2019 to spend $51M on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain AI, in which Sam Altman had invested $1M+ — Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain.
More: The Information. X: @halvarflake, @silvermanjacob, and @dseetharaman. LinkedIn: Jim Fan
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Platformer: |
Internal docs: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in public 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: The Decoder, Business Insider, GeekWire, DatacenterDynamics, and MSPoweruser
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Mastodon: @kennwhite@mastodon.social and @kellogh@hachyderm.io
Bluesky: @johnpfaff.bsky.social and @teroterotero.bsky.social
X: @quinnypig, @simonw, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @simonw, and @emollick
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
The threat to Intel now comes from a whole ecosystem of companies, including nearly every tech giant, although the chip giant is still a strong competitor — Newcomers pose numerous challenges to decades of ‘Wintel’ chip dominance. — It might not look like it yet, but Intel is in a fight for its life.Sponsor Posts
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