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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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Mastodon: @jockr@mastodon.social and @Andy_European@mastodon.online
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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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X: @sundarpichai, @harrysurden, @jackk, @jackk, @rowancheung, @jeffdean, @sundarpichai, and @mishaalrahman
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| 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.
More: Android Developers Blog, PYMNTS.com, CNET, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Chrome Unboxed, Android Developers, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, BGR, Android Headlines, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Droid Life, and Android Central
Threads: @davey_burke. X: @rowancheung, @andrewcurran_, @androiddev, @bryancsk, @sundarpichai, @nexuist, @mishaalrahman, @androiddevnotes, @zacharynado, @davey_burke, @madebygoogle, and @simonw
Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/GooglePixel, and r/Android
| 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 …
More: Google Cloud Blog, Computerworld, DatacenterDynamics, Wccftech, Engadget, and The Register
LinkedIn: Amin Vahdat and Urs Hölzle
| Mat Honan / MIT Technology Review: |
More: Google for Developers Blog, Semafor, Android Authority, The Keyword, Engadget, The Decoder, MSPoweruser, and Thurrott. Mastodon: @NeadReport@social.vivaldi.net
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/signal, r/apple, r/technology, r/privacy, r/Android, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| 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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Forums: r/hardware, r/apple, r/ipad, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: ml-explore on GitHub, The Verge, 9to5Mac, The Stack, AppleInsider, On my Om, BGR, and MSPoweruser
Threads: @luokai. X: @awnihannun, @deliprao, @awnihannun, @angeloskath, @benbajarin, @ryancarson, @ylecun, @krishnanrohit, @drjimfan, and @jsusskin. Forums: Hacker News
| 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: |
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and OpenAI say they plan to use AMD's new Instinct MI300X GPU; Microsoft plans to offer access to the chips through Azure — - Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft said they will use AMD's newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X — a sign that tech companies want alternatives …
More: The Verge, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, VideoCardz.com, Neowin, and insideHPC
X: @futurebec and @patrickmoorhead
| 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 …
More: Meta, Engadget, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Barron's Online, Neowin, Social Media Today, and PetaPixel
Threads: @daveleebbg, @stuartathompsonnyt, @chriscox, @technicallymims, and @aaldahle
X: @joshuaogundu, @rcweston, and @metanewsroom
| 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: Tom's Hardware, Binarly, Insyde Software, and SecurityWeek
Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange. X: @kimzetter. Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| 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, Ars Technica, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, The Irish Times, Fortune, AppleInsider, Thurrott, and TechCrunch
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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: Unchained Crypto. X: @billyperrigo, @aaltman82, @kristileilani, @samraskinz, @annmarie, and @time. Forums: r/singularity
| 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 … | 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” …
More: VideoCardz.com, Ars Technica, The Verge, Gamers Nexus on YouTube, and PC Gamer
X: @momomo_us, @ghost_motley, @gamersnexus, @tomwarren, @witeken, @ghost_motley, and @techopse
Forums: r/AMD_Stock and r/intel
| 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.
More: Google Chrome Releases, ZDNet, Android Central, and Android Police
| 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.
More: The Keyword, The Messenger, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, and Android Authority. X: @zollotech
| 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 … | 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, ZDNet, Android Central, and Android Headlines
| 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.
More: Twitch, TechCrunch, Engadget, Dexerto, PCMag, PC Games Insider, Cryptopolitan, KitGuru, Destructoid, Gameranx, Koreaboo, Sportskeeda, Dexerto, The Korea Herald, TheGamer, and The Verge
Mastodon: @ryansingel@writing.exchange. X: @quinnypig, @esfandtv, @imakunivt, @fofamit, @zachbussey, @broderick, @montecristo, @kyurieff, and @zachbussey
| 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 …
Threads: @ben.werdmuller. Mastodon: @ben@werd.social and @Schneier_rss@burn.capital
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/InfoSecNews
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