Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the photo and video app maker's entire team, including founder and CEO Neill Barham
Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …
A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads
Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. — YouTube recently took dramatic action …
Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini's public launch from next week to January 2024; a source says the LLM doesn't reliably handle some non-English queries
Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Threads: @craignewmark . Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon.art , @trent@eigenma...
Kiss' three current members reveal digital avatars of themselves, created by Pophouse and George Lucas' ILM, which will tour as the rock band stops live touring
On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.
Chase Bank could be an ideal Goldman Sachs replacement for Apple Card, as it uses the same Mastercard network and already has a strong relationship with Apple
Apple and Goldman Sachs are on the verge of splitting up, and Chase is the ideal partner to step in.
Internal docs: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in public preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data”, like AWS data center locations
Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
Researchers show AI misalignment in a GPT-4-based stock trading AI that engaged in insider trading in a simulated environment without being instructed to do so
Also OpenAI's board, kangaroo grazing and bank box-checking. — AI MNPI — Here you go, insider trading robot:
Global smartwatch shipments grew 9% YoY in Q3 2023: Apple had its best-ever Q3 with shipments up 7% YoY, Samsung fell 19% YoY, and Huawei grew 56% YoY
Counterpoint Research :
The threat to Intel now comes from a whole ecosystem of companies, including nearly every tech giant, although the chip giant is still a strong competitor
Newcomers pose numerous challenges to decades of ‘Wintel’ chip dominance. — It might not look like it yet, but Intel is in a fight for its life.
The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systematically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including from Sundar Pichai
On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company's conduct …
AstraZeneca signs a deal worth up to $247M with US-based Absci to harness its AI tech for large-scale protein analysis and design an antibody to fight cancer
Deal with Absci is the latest between big pharma and tech companies to build new disease treatments
AI doomerism will recede from public consciousness because frequent release of AI models shows that they are harmful in prosaic, rather than existential, ways
If I'm being honest, my immediate reaction to the news that Sam Altman had been fired as C.E.O. of OpenAI was something like ... relief? Threads: @technicallymims . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to Thre...
The US, the UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg :
A look at Anthropic's governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust set to select most of its board
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology :
The G7 agrees on comprehensive international guidelines for generative AI, applying to both developers and users, expected to be approved as soon as December
Mayumi Hirosawa / Nikkei Asia :
Filing: hackers accessed 0.1% of user accounts in 23andMe's data breach that the company disclosed in October 2023; 23andMe reported 14M+ customers in May 2023
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How Saudi Arabia's investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as the kingdom aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports
Lewis Gordon / The Verge : X: @nitroslick . LinkedIn: Rafael Brown X: Fanbo Calrissian / @nitroslick : Oh, just a ruthless dictator slowly buying his way into and influencing another major entertainm...
A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund
so much so that the print intro (which closed 2 weeks ago) is different than the digital intro. Excited to share it and grateful to our world class editor @MatthewHeimer who... David Marcus / @davidma...
Meta announces Seamless Communication, a suite of AI translation models that aim to enable more natural and authentic communication across languages
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat :
An interview with Guillaume Verdon, who founded stealth AI startup Extropic and is behind the @BasedBeffJezos persona at the center of effective accelerationism
and spoke to Guillaume Verdon, the self-described “gentle Canadian” behind the account. https://www.forbes.com/... @autismcapital : New Forbes article on e/acc and unfortunately doxxing Beff Jezos. It...
Sources: EU lawmakers cannot agree on how to regulate systems like ChatGPT, with foundation models becoming the main hurdle in talks over their proposed AI Act
Reuters : Forums: Beehaw Forums: Beehaw : Generative AI a stumbling block in EU legislation talks
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