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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations — Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. — On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 …
More: lmsys on Hugging Face, LMSYS Org, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, and Decrypt
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Ars OpenForum
| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top — Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we're firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it's time to add two such behemoths …
More: NVIDIA, MLCommons, Cybernews.com, VentureBeat, Fierce Electronics, MLCommons, Tom's Hardware, Maginative, Forbes, Intel, ServeTheHome, Wccftech, and Wccftech
X: @aiatmeta, @tonymongkolsmai, @mlcommons, @nvidiadc, @mlcommons, @typewriters, and @intel
| CNBC: |
Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of its planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after investing $1.25B in September 2023 — Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race.
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LinkedIn: Raejeanne Skillern, Swami Sivasubramanian, Emil Protalinski, Adam Selipsky, Michael Broderick, and Hayden Field
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/onewheel
| Open Web Advocacy: |
How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy — In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy.
| Álvaro / eXputer: |
Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X console, which Microsoft plans to release in 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X — This in continuation of eXputer's previous report back in February. … Back in February, I reported that Microsoft has plans …
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Forums: r/4kbluray, r/gamingnews, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, posts calling trans and gender nonconforming people “satanic”, and more — GLAAD catalogued dozens of instances of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada — Google is introducing a handful of updates that aim to take some of the stress out of planning trips and outings …
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 — A new Homeworld game is also in development. — Embracer Group has officially divested Gearbox Entertainment …
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Forums: r/Games, r/gaming, r/PS5, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation — Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations, making it challenging …
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LinkedIn: Fred Bateman and Nate Olson
| Fortune: |
A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and then fell apart — In December 2022, someone was looking for Emad Mostaque. The founder and CEO of Stability AI, one of the hottest startups … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Affinity and Canva publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's design software “fair, transparent, and affordable”, including its “perpetual licenses” — After Canva's acquisition of Affinity design software sparked concern regarding the future …
More: Affinity, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Joan Westenberg, and TechCrunch
Threads: @snazzyq, @trevorcroker, and @todd_coleman
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
Google blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B ads and 6.7M advertiser accounts in 2022 — The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled compared to the previous year. — Chat with SearchBot
More: The Keyword, B&T, CampaignUK, Search Engine Journal, The Indian Express, and 9to5Google
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital — When entrepreneur Stephen Chen's mom began approaching retirement age, she was forced to borrow money from Chen — and Chen's brother — to make ends meet.
More: FinSMEs and NewRetirement
| Reuters: |
A US judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, but dismisses one claim that Coinbase acted as an unregistered broker via Coinbase Wallet — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday said the U.S. securities regulator's lawsuit against Coinbase (COIN.O) can move forward …
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/ethtrader
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
NYC-based Hume, which offers a conversational AI that, Hume says, can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation — Hume has raised $50 million in funding at a $219 million valuation to build “empathic” conversational AI. — Alan Cowen feigns a dejected expression.
More: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE, Maginative, and Analytics India Magazine
Threads: @paul_rietschka. X: @rauchg, @hume_ai, @apoorva_mehta, @hume_ai, @nikitabier, @andrewcurran_, @alancowen, @vhmth, @hume_ai, @ambermac, @scobleizer, and @danshipper. LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava
| Clara Murray / Financial Times: |
Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal — CEO Sam Altman wants customised chatbots to supercharge its business but data suggests ‘GPTs’ have limited appeal
More: Analytics India Magazine
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated — Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they're vulnerable …
More: The Keyword, BleepingComputer, PCMag, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Hackread, SamNews 24, Security, Decipher, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cyber Kendra, and CyberScoop
Forums: r/netsec and r/cybersecurity
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Poland's consumer watchdog fines Amazon ~$8M for allegedly misleading consumers, including via dark pattern design tricks, ending a probe from February 2023 — Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace.Sponsor Posts
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