Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok, an AI model that the startup says surpasses rivals 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!
Apple does not plan to release an Apple silicon version of the 27-inch iMac, encouraging buyers to consider a Mac Studio or Mac mini and Studio Display
Apple will not be making an Apple Silicon version of the 27-inch iMac to replace the Intel-equipped model that it discontinued in 2022.
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2023) review: M3 offers great performance and long battery, a worthy entry-level Pro, but 8GB of RAM is silly and loses a Thunderbolt port
The long-awaited replacement for the 13-inch MacBook Pro is here, and it's exactly as expected. But the line between Air and Pro users is blurrier than ever.
Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2023) review: M3 Max surpasses the M1 Ultra, nice design, and ProMotion display, but RAM and SSD upgrades are pricey and the notch remains
A solid generational upgrade for a laptop that wouldn't be possible with Intel. — The next year or two will be a turning point …
MediaTek announces its Dimensity 9300 chip, using TSMC's 4nm process, arriving in high-end Android smartphones and tablets before the end of 2023
MediaTek claims its new flagship mobile processor, the Dimensity 9300, will provide the performance, AI power, and multimedia capabilities needed …
Some visitors to Yuga Labs' ApeFest event in Hong Kong report experiencing eye burn and blame the lighting; the Bored Ape creator acknowledges the situation
- Bored Ape digital collectibles among most popular in crypto — Yuga Labs organized ApeFest event in Hong Kong last week
Apple iMac 24-inch (2023) review: M3 offers impressive gains over the M1, good for gaming, and excellent webcam, but few ports and no keyboard backlighting
and the results are mixed Britta O'Boyle / Pocket-lint : Apple iMac (M3, 2023) review: The iMac is back and better than ever Patrick O'Rourke / MobileSyrup : Unpacking Apple's M3 series MacBook Pro an...
Epic's case against Google Play's app payment restrictions goes to trial in San Francisco, after Google settled with Match on October 31 ahead of a trial
The maker of Fortnite is suing the search giant as it is defending a DoJ antitrust case — The long-running attempt by Epic Games …
Duke University study: personal data from active-duty US service members is cheap, easy to buy, and widely advertised by brokers; data on ~50K people cost ~$10K
Duke University researchers were able to purchase information about thousands of U.S. military personnel often for as little as 12 cents per person.
A survey of 978 US students: 79% say they don't use any dating apps even as much as once per month; 12% say they use Tinder monthly, the most of any dating app
Young people aren't on dating apps. — That's according to a new Axios/Generation Lab survey of college and graduate students nationwide.
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd plans to step down nearly a decade after founding the dating app, to be replaced by Slack CEO Lidiane Jones on January 2, 2024
The dating-app founder who marketed her product toward women will be replaced by Lidiane Jones, the Slack chief executive
Palo Alto Networks confirms acquiring Talon Cyber Security, which offers enterprise browsers for distributed workforces, sources say for $625M
Palo Alto Networks has just confirmed one more major piece of security startup M&A out of Israel: it has acquired Talon Cyber Security …
Klarna reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$550M, a ~$12M operating profit, the first in four years, and value of goods sold up 22% YoY, ahead of a potential IPO
Klarna Bank AB reported its first quarterly operating profit in four years as it attracted more consumers to buy-now-pay-later loans …
Microsoft's Xbox and Inworld AI enter a multi-year partnership to create multi-platform AI-powered game development tools for story and character creation
Microsoft's Xbox and Inworld AI have partnered to create AI-powered game development tools for narrative and character creation.
The Bank of England and UK FCA seek feedback on proposals for regulating stablecoins, aiming to evaluate the potential benefits for consumers and retailers
https://lnkd.in/... Alongside a Roadmap with the Bank of England; …
A look at CulturePulse, which is building an AI model to create a virtual version of Israel and Palestinian territories and has signed a nine-month UN contract
both Americans who are now based in Europe—were on the ground as part of a contract they signed with the UN in August to develop a first-of-its-kind AI model that they hope will help analyze solutions...
WhatsApp's AI generates stickers of kids with guns when prompted with “Palestinian”; prompts for “Israeli” generate stickers of mostly smiling people in uniform
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Chinese startup 01.AI, launched in March 2023 by computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee, reaches a $1B+ valuation and releases its AI model Yi-34B in Chinese and English
Train — Use in Transformers … The first public release contains two bilingual … Pandaily : Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI Releases A Large-scale Model Yi-34B Worth Over $1 Billion Matthias Bastian / The Decoder...
Investigation: Family-Match, an AI tool for adoption matchmaking inspired by online dating, falls short for vulnerable kids; VA, GA, and TN dropped the tool
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Researchers say AI models like GPT-4 respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context because of how these models handle nuanced prompts
Despite limited progress, delegates at the UK's AI Safety Summit welcomed the discussions as a first step toward international collaboration on regulating AI
A look at companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, to potential US Copyright Office rules for AI and copyrighted content
German generative AI startup Aleph Alpha raised $500M+ from Schwarz Group, Bosch, and others to build data protection and security tools for sensitive sectors
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A profile of, and interview with, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, who is in charge of developing the Biden administration's AI strategy
including companies' accumulation of data — as connecting back to the competition policy/antitrust work Biden's also pushed... Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : Neither came away especially impressed. They ...
Canon CEO Fujio Mitarai says the company's nanoimprint chip machines will cost “one digit less than ASML's EUVs”, adding that Canon has not set final pricing
Canon Inc.'s new lithography technology (nanoimprint) came to market last month, and can be a cheaper (but a slower) alternative to ASML's EUV technology. … Bert Verrycken : Is #canon for real? Or is...
Q&A with Google DeepMind Head of Robotics Vincent Vanhoucke on the robotics team's history, general purpose robots, generative AI's role in robotics, and more
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Chinese memory chip startup Changxin Xinqiao raised ~$5.4B, including ~$2B from Big Fund; founded in 2021, Xinqiao shares a GM with China's leading DRAM maker
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As Block struggles, Jack Dorsey gets more involved, like running Square and sending his first shareholder letter in years; SQ is down 80%+ since its 2021 peak
The Square business losing Alyssa Henry as a leader is also going to hurt. … LinkedIn: Angel Au-Yeung : Weekend read: Absentee No More, Jack Dorsey Shows Up For Block's Make-Or-Break Moment — Dorsey...
Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet reported $42B in combined capital spending in Q3, up 10% from Q2 and almost 20% from Q3 2021, to expand generative AI services
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Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, deepfake detection issues, and more
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
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