OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist
Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …
Interviews with 20 people detail the Biden admin's response to SVB's and Signature's collapse, as tech executives and investors lobbied to protect all deposits
It seemed like a simple question: Did the treasury secretary have any concerns about the economic risks posed by Silicon Valley Bank?
Microsoft says the new Bing is “running on GPT-4, which we've customized for search” and was using an early version of the model over the past five weeks
Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today. — We are happy to confirm that the new Bing …
GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and more accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but still hallucinates
from processing pictures to acing tests Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust : GPT-4's successes, and GPT-4's failures Tweets: Geoff Brumfiel / @gbrumfiel : I got access to @OpenAI's GPT 4 this m...
A profile of Tim Mayopoulos, named by the FDIC as the CEO of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, who was BofA's general counsel during the 2008 financial crisis
The F.D.I.C. named Tim Mayopoulos as chief executive of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank. His job is to keep calm and carry on.
As SVB collapsed, prominent investors, internet provocateurs, and others helped fuel concerns over the US banking system, creating a “Twitter-fueled bank run”
Rapid spread of concerns prompts lawmaker to call it ‘Twitter-fueled bank run’ — The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: What You Need to Know
A look at the history of Signature Bank, a lender once tied to Jared Kushner and founded in 2001 that leaped into crypto, ultimately leading to its downfall
Signature Bank was flying high when co-founder Scott Shay mused about success on a podcast early last year.
T-Mobile plans to acquire Ryan Reynolds-backed budget wireless provider Mint Mobile for as much as $1.35B, seeking to expand its pay-as-you-go marketshare
T-Mobile US Inc. is buying Mint Mobile, the budget wireless provider part owned by actor Ryan Reynolds, for as much as $1.35 billion …
SVB's collapse is a tale of ambition, management mistakes, and focusing on innovation over the mundane work of managing risk and ensuring financial prudence
Maureen Farrell / New York Times :
Duolingo debuts a Max subscription for $30 per month or $168 per year, offering GPT-4 features for English speakers taking Spanish and French courses on iOS
GPT-4 deepens the conversation on Duolingo. — View product — Language — GPT-4 Tweets: @khanacademy : Did you hear? 👀 Khan Academy is using GPT-4 from @OpenAI to shape the future of learning. Sta...
Sources: TikTok's leadership is considering divesting itself from ByteDance as a last resort if CFIUS rejects the existing proposal, possibly leading to an IPO
TikTok's leadership is discussing the possibility of separating from ByteDance Ltd., its Chinese parent company, to help address concerns about national security risks.
Sources: Spotify HiFi as a premium tier was ready to launch over a year ago, but Apple's decision to offer lossless audio at no extra charge spoiled its plans
Even though Spotify HiFi still hasn't launched after being announced more than two years ago, some kind of lossless experience …
Alleged renders of Google's Pixel 8 Pro appear to show a flat ~6.52" display and a new sensor on the camera bar, after a Pixel Fold and 7a retail listing leak
Leak season is starting. Following a retail leak of Pixel Fold and Pixel 7a just today, the first renders of Google Pixel 8 Pro have arrived …
Sources: US prosecutors were investigating Signature's work with crypto clients before regulators seized the bank, including over detecting money laundering
US prosecutors were investigating Signature Bank's work with crypto clients before regulators suddenly seized the lender this past weekend …
An interview with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman on GPT-4 being “different” to GPT-3, training on images and text, a “slow and intentional” rollout, and more
just because we don't have rich training data above that level. Tweets: Greg Brockman / @gdb : We're releasing GPT-4 — a large multimodal model (image & text in, text out) which is a significant advan...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's data analysis suggests that engineers who joined the company in-person performed better on average than those who joined remotely
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook parent Meta, has pointed to internal data analysis that suggests engineers …
The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired integrates GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a Virtual Volunteer feature in closed beta
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
How Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant fell behind in the AI race despite a decade headstart, hampered by clunky design and miscalculations
The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise.
OpenAI partners with Stripe to take payments and subscriptions for ChatGPT and Dall-E; Stripe also plans to integrate OpenAI's AI tools into its products
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg :
Samsung Electronics plans to invest ~$230B through 2042 in South Korea to build one of the world's largest chipmaking bases, including five chip factories
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) expects to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years to develop …
Sources: Abu Dhabi-based G42 acquired a $100M+ stake in ByteDance at a ~$220B valuation, down from $300B set in a recent buyback, as the US weighs a TikTok ban
a significant discount https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : Nothing says ~we are not a national security threat~ like https://www.bloomberg.com/...
The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of over $1B and arrests him; the DOJ seizes $634M
The U.S. government on Wednesday charged exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with fraud, accusing him of orchestrating a conspiracy …
OpenAI open sources Evals, its framework for automatically evaluating the performance of its AI models, letting users report shortcomings and guide improvements
Samsung responds to the controversy over moon photography on Galaxy devices, explaining its “Scene Optimizer” feature, “AI deep learning model”, and more
The post's content isn't exactly new — it appears to be a lightly edited translation of an article posted …
A journey into the metaverse to find friends and true believers on Meta's Horizon Worlds, raising questions over what promise Mark Zuckerberg saw in VR
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FBI report: US citizens lost $10.3B to online scammers in 2022, up from $6.9B in 2021, with losses from crypto investment fraud reaching $2.57B, up from $907M
Cryptocurrency investment fraud nearly tripled in 2022 from the year before — Americans lost more than $10 billion …
PwC partners with AI startup Harvey to launch a chatbot for its 4,000 lawyers, built using OpenAI's GPT-4, as law firms rush to find ways to integrate AI
Technology from start-up Harvey aims to make contract analysis and due diligence quicker — PwC has announced a chatbot experiment …
Anthropic, co-founded by former OpenAI employees, debuts Claude, a ChatGPT rival the startup says is less likely to hallucinate; companies can request access
Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app's redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more
A profile of Russian national Artem Uss, arrested in Milan under US indictment over a secret supply chain to provide US tech to support Putin's war in Ukraine
For years, Artem Uss had appeared in Russian media as the owner of fancy real estate, luxury cars and Italian hotels. Tweets: @benbartenstein and @rosmathieson Tweets: Ben Bartenstein / @benbartenstei...
Inside the iPhone refurbishment process at New Jersey-based US Mobile Phones, from the trade-in to refurbish to resale; iPhones dominate consumer trade-ins
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal :
After an internal systems issue knocked Reddit offline for over four hours, the company implemented a fix and says “things are back in order”
UPDATE: Mar. 15, 2023, 2:24 p.m. AEDT Reddit … Tweets: @redditstatus : Investigating: Reddit is currently offline. We're working to identify the issue. https://stspg.io/... @redditstatus : Identified:...
Arkham: net redemptions of Circle's USDC reached $4.5B since March 10, including a single $723M redemption that was later burnt, after Signature and SVB fell
Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block :
After the ALPHV ransomware group claimed to have hit Amazon's Ring, the company says there's no breach evidence but a vendor without customer records was hit
Joseph Cox / VICE :
YouTube launches early multiview access for YouTube TV, letting US viewers watch up to four, pre-selected streams simultaneously, initially for sports content
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Foxconn reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$64.5B and $1.3B net income, slightly below estimates, and forecasts slumping consumer electronics demand in 2023
Debby Wu / Bloomberg :
Google raises Workspace's monthly per user pricing by 20% to $7.20 for Business Starter, $14.40 for Business Standard, and $21.60 for Business Plus
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Rep. Ken Buck says the GOP does not seem to plan tougher antitrust rules on Google, Amazon, and Apple in 2023; Jim Jordan does not want to give Biden more power
- The new Republican leadership in the U.S. House doesn't appear to have the appetite to impose tougher antitrust rules on the tech giants. Tweets: @caro , @robbysoave , @carlszabo , @pathedger18 , @s...
CISA launches a pilot program to warn critical infrastructure owners with “internet-accessible vulnerabilities commonly associated with known ransomware actors”
Edward Graham / Nextgov :
Snap will begin publishing its guidelines for serving personalized Snapchat content, after previously sharing them with publishing partners and some creators
Sara Fischer / Axios :
An investigation finds illegal miners in Brazil are using SpaceX's Starlink, helping coordinate logistics, make payments, and warn of law enforcement raids
Fabiano Maisonnave / Associated Press :
The US charges two US members of the ViLE cybercriminal group for an alleged May 2022 hack into a DEA portal that taps into 16 federal law enforcement databases
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Microsoft announces Build 2023 will run from May 23 to May 25 digitally and in person from Seattle, with updates on Windows 11, Bing, AI, and more expected
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Adept, which is building an AI model that can turn text commands into computer actions, raised $350M in a Series B, sources say at a $1B+ post-money valuation
Tilia, a payment platform for game publishers, metaverse projects, and more, raised $22M, after spinning off from Second Life creator Linden Lab in October 2022
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
A list of over a dozen US stadiums using facial recognition for testing, security, entry, analyzing fans' feelings, ticketing, concessions, or other use cases
Georgia Gee / Slate :
Just Eat Takeaway plans to file for deregistration of its securities from the US SEC due to low trading volume and high costs, as Grubhub CEO Adam DeWitt exits
Silicon Canals :
Zürich-based Verity, which offers autonomous inventory management drones to logistics providers, retailers, and manufacturers, has raised a $32M Series B
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
CIA Deputy Director David Cohen calls for the private sector to “supercharge” the agency's work in quantum computing, biotech, wireless, chips, and battery tech
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