Elon Musk's xAI releases its AI model Grok, which it says surpasses other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users
Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Researchers say AI models like GPT-4 respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context, because of how such models handle nuanced prompts
Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context — In the grand narrative …
A look at the disparity between Amazon's drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects are delivered in perfect weather conditions
Amazon's much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways. Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone. Threads: @alexkantrowitz . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @...
Sources: GM spent an average of $588M a quarter on Cruise in the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist Cruise's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles
Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow about its C.E.O.'s expansion plans.
Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases
Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
Okta's autopsy report on its support system breach understated the role of a badly configured service account, the biggest contributing factor for the breach
If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong. — Identity and authentication management provider Okta …
Hands-on with Google's real-time scanning in Play Protect for sideloaded apps: it didn't restrict five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing
Here's our hands-on review of the new Android security feature — Android's in-built security engine Google Play Protect …
A look at BlizzCon 2023, the first in-person BlizzCon since 2019, which revealed WoW expansions and more, and didn't sell out beforehand, unlike past iterations
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A look at AI companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, to possible US Copyright Office changes around AI and copyrighted content
The biggest companies in AI aren't interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why.
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform that will be “contractually obligated” to honor creator royalties on NFT sales
Magic Eden's new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties. What does that mean for traders?
A eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple
and our — misery. Jeff Frick : When you take risks, by rule, some percentage aren't going to work out. — RIP Touch Bar — The Touch Bar was very much Apple replanting its design flag and declaring ...
How chip companies are experimenting with new materials, including synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips
To beat the heat that our devices throw off, engineers are experimenting with synthetic diamonds, ultrapure glass and other obscure materials
Despite limited progress, delegates at the UK's AI Safety Summit welcomed the discussions as a first step toward international collaboration on regulating AI
On an ordinary weekday in November, Bletchley Park plays host to a mixture of elderly pensioners and bands of unruly schoolchildren …
Discord says links to files uploaded to its servers will expire after 24 hours to reduce the amount of malware distributed using its CDN, starting later in 2023
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Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, AI deepfake detection, and more
Instead of detecting fakes, this effort aims to authenticate and track online images from the start; Adobe's chief trust officer on the strategy X: @julesurbach X: Jules Urbach / @julesurbach : Everyt...
Byju's files much-delayed financial results: a $270.9M operating loss and $429.18M revenue for its FY ending March 2022, missing its $1.25B revenue projection
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Google Play rolls out an “Independent security review” badge for apps that have conducted a Mobile Application Security Assessment audit, starting with VPN apps
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Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after Phil Spencer stepped in to reverse the company's plans to remove the benefit
Tom Warren / The Verge :
OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained
including the underlying technology, reliability, speed, quality, [and] experience” and to achieve this upgrade they are laying off half the employees at the company. OpenSea was valued at $13.3 bill...
LexisNexis: IBM had 6,363 cybersecurity patents as of August 2023, followed by Huawei with 5,735 and Tencent with 4,803; six of the top 10 companies are Chinese
Akinobu Iwasawa / Nikkei Asia :
Microsoft staff will keep their free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate access after Phil Spencer stepped in to reverse the company's plans to remove the benefit in 2024
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The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads' launch, not enough interesting content, and more
For those who haven't read it yet, here's the biopsy of their effort to build a Twitter-alternative: https://medium.com/... I look forward to the next follow-up posting. Jay Jurisich / @jay@pebble.so...
An interview with Mozilla Senior Director of Content Carolyn O'Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles when onboarding users, moderation, and more
I must confess, I have been observing mozilla.social for quite some time. … Johannes Ernst / @J12t@social.coop : If I read this right, #mozilla has identified #news organizations as their initial user...
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