Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman
The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored
Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product. Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”
Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
LLMs aren't sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can't have subjective experiences of such states
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human … Bluesky: @motomatters.bsky.social and @zitron.bsky.social X: @vsikka...
A closer look at Apple's AI strategy: Project Greymatter, local and cloud LLM data processing, Siri, approach to the chatbot partnership with OpenAI, and more
Though Apple's first set of modern AI features won't be as impressive as rival offerings, the company is betting that its massive customer base can give it an edge.
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2
The landmark decision may be the first time a jury has agreed that a cheat creator violated a gaming company's copyrights.
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties
Despite Meta's promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize. Threads: @violatypes and @russellbrandom . Mastodon: @rakyat@hachyderm.io X: @vickie...
Four of the top seven best-reviewed games on Metacritic in 2024, not counting remakes, are indies, with Animal Well and Balatro in the top three
Halfway through 2024, four of the top seven best-reviewed games, not counting remakes, are indies — Hi everyone.
Filings: US pharmaceutical company Cencora notified ~500K individuals since learning about a data breach in February 2024 that exposed health diagnoses and more
Cencora, previously AmerisourceBergen, said it obtained patients' data through partnerships with other drug makers, including Abbvie, Acadia, Bayer, Novartis, Regeneron. … X: Engr. Abubakar Mundir / @...
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to build and package chips in the same $32B fab in Hokkaido, setting the company apart from TSMC, Intel, and Samsung
To say that the global foundry market is booming right now would be an understatement. Demand for leading-edge process technologies driven …
Apple Music's “100 Best Albums” list, based on votes from about 250 employees, artists, and industry executives, is eclectic, unpredictable, and controversial
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IoT Analytics: Nvidia, whose Q1 data center revenue grew 427% YoY to $22.6B, has 90%+ market share for data center GPUs, as Intel and AMD scrap for second place
Chipmakers eye AI ‘inferencing’ and PCs as new battlegrounds — PALO ALTO, California — Nvidia is on a roll … X: @levie , @nikkeiasia , @nikkeiasia , and @nikkeiasia X: Aaron Levie / @levie : These 2...
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business … X: @joshuaogundu , @kantrowitz , @lmatsakis , and @kantrowitz X: Josh / @joshuaogundu...
How SLMs like Microsoft's Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private
literally. Recent advancements by Microsoft have made it possible … Ian Mullane : This may have passed you by, but think about the potential. We have moved from only being able to run LLMs in the cl...
SoftBank's outlay for AI investments has more than doubled to $8.9B in the 12 months since Masayoshi Son said the firm was ready to go on the “counteroffensive”
Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching finances X: @jamesplloyd X: James Lloyd / @jamesplloyd : “From now on, we want to step up investments in AI com...
An analysis of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT's answers to 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow: 52% of answers contain incorrect information, 77% are verbose
https://futurism.com/... Charlie Stross / @cstross@wandering.shop : Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong — https://futurism.com/... Shafik Yaghmour / @sh...
A significant amount of illicit crypto activity still remains in China, highlighting the continuing use of cryptocurrencies despite Beijing's digital asset ban
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A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses
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Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs
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Similarweb: Truth Social's average number of US monthly visits was just over 4M from May 2023 to April 2024, down 39%+ from the prior 12-month period
Traffic at TS has been declining for months despite Trump flooding the site with posts about his high-profile NY criminal trial. … @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world : “The company claims it does not trac...
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more
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