Researchers from Apple and Columbia University released Ferret, an open source multimodal LLM that can recognize and describe any shape in an image, in October
With little fanfare, researchers from Apple and Columbia University released an open source multimodal LLM, called Ferret, in October 2023.
Kuo: Apple Vision Pro shipments are estimated to be approximately 500,000 units in 2024 and will most likely be available in late January or early February
An earlier Apple Vision Pro launch timeline stated that the mixed-reality headset's shipments would start in February next year …
Elon Musk is fielding complaints about Grok giving liberal responses on diversity, transgender rights, and inequality, despite promising an “anti-woke” chatbot
Grok, launched this month on X, has angered conservatives by endorsing diversity. Musk says he's trying to fix it.
China approves 105 local games, including titles from Tencent and NetEase, after the announcement of a new set of restrictions led to a $80B rout last week
- Beijing approves games, seeks feedback on new restrictions — Tencent and NetEase shares plunged on Friday on crackdown fear
A look at Sam Altman's history at Loopt and Y Combinator, where his side activities and personal projects riled colleagues and forced his departure from YC
The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he's rebounded to greater heights
Ubisoft is investigating reports of a new security breach after security research collective VX-Underground shared screenshots of the company's internal tools
Ubisoft is investigating whether it suffered a breach after images of the company's internal software and developer tools were leaked online.
Researchers: an updated Chameleon trojan uses an HTML page trick to disrupt biometrics on Android like Face Unlock to steal PINs and unlock the device at will
The Chameleon Android banking trojan has re-emerged with a new version that uses a tricky technique to take over devices …
GM pauses Chevy Blazer EV sales as it works to fix software problems, including the infotainment screen going blank, which affect a “limited number” of vehicles
I've yet to read as damning an automotive review … Murtada : And they'll start to outsource development all over again........ Ahem, Ahem, cough cough. Two letter company who tried to start a softwa...
Researchers extract business and personal email addresses for 30+ NYT staff by fine tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo, bypassing the safeguards for privacy-related queries
This is a visualization of a large email database from the Enron Corporation, which is often used to train artificial intelligence systems, like ChatGPT. Threads: @carnage4life and @vishvanands . Mast...
A look at TikTok Shop, as big companies shun the e-commerce app, which has a clunky interface and is full of dubious merchandise, like a $50 plastic fork
At best, the social platform's e-commerce arm is full of random impulse buys and silly trinkets. At worst, it's a breeding ground for bad actors and shady products.
A profile of Yi He, a former talk-show host who co-founded Binance with Changpeng Zhao and has sweeping control over its marketing and investment divisions
Yi He, a former talk-show host, has sweeping control over the crypto giant's marketing and investment divisions.
Experts warn against unrealistic expectations for quantum computers, citing the challenges in making fault-tolerant systems, qubits' slow operating speeds, more
That's the message coming from a small but vocal set of prominent skeptics in and around the emerging quantum computing industry. — Fault tolerance and slow operating speeds remain difficult challen...
A study estimates that there are 13.3B+ videos on YouTube, of which 4B+ were posted to the platform in 2023, and the median YouTube video has 39 views
read 5 takeaways from @Antisomniac: https://journalqd.org/... Dirk Loss / @dloss : There are about 13 billion public YouTube videos, and the median video has 39 views. https://ethanzuckerman.com/... @...
Nvidia and its staff donated $15M to Israeli nonprofits helping civilians affected by the Israel-Hamas war, the largest humanitarian fundraiser for the company
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The Central Bank of Nigeria lifts a ban, imposed in February 2021, on cryptocurrency transactions but says global trends show a need to regulate such activities
The US is focusing on blocking North Korea's ability to launder its crypto stolen via cyberattacks, which the US thinks funds North Korea's weapons programs
The Biden administration is doing more to counter North Korean hackers amid concerns their cryptocurrency heists are powering the country's weapons programs. Mastodon: @Free_Press@mstdn.social and @ca...
A look at Microsoft's Xbox partnership with Inworld AI, focused on using AI to let NPCs in games evolve beyond predefined roles and adapt to player behavior
- Microsoft has big plans for generative AI in gaming, and its recent XBox partnership with Inworld AI is a key example.
Micron says it has reached a global settlement agreement to end all lawsuits, including claims of IP theft, with Chinese state-backed chipmaker Fujian Jinhua
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Buyout firm Leonard Green agrees to buy a stake in UK-based Iris Software, which makes payroll and HR tools, from Hg in a deal valuing Iris at ~£3.15B
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg :
A look at Take-Two's $12B Zynga deal in 2022, just as casual games peaked post pandemic, Apple introduced ATT, and the mobile game market headed into a downturn
then people found other stuff to do https://www.bloomberg.com/... @jacobidle : Forgive me, but was this not entirely predictable? These acquisitions rarely, if ever, work out. One only has to look bac...
Data.ai: puzzle app Royal Match has held the top spot for the biggest mobile game by monthly revenue globally since July, ahead of Candy Crush Saga
$2B annually over 55MAU for a team of 200 [embedded post] X: Saemin Ahn / @saemin4655 : Microsoft be like: [image]
A look at the American Journalism Project's Product & AI Studio, launched with OpenAI in summer 2023 to explore how to apply emerging tech in local journalism
enabling 13 organizations to pilot and experiment with a variety of AI applications to assist local journalism. https://medium.com/... @journalismproj : An update on AJP's Product & AI Studio: we're k...
How AI defense tech developer Rebellion Defense is struggling to survive after failing to win a US DOD contract, losing its founders, and shuttering its UK arm
Forbes : X: @drleostrauss , @mideastxmidwest , and @davidjeans2 X: @drleostrauss : Cautionary SV-DoD tale. $1 billion 🇺🇸 SV defense sector AI start up. Chased DoD contracts without an actual core pro...
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