Many AI features, like Gmail's AI assistant, feel useless because they don't allow users to edit system prompts, constraining the AI models they're built with
Millions Of Email Users Now At Risk Of Attack Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : This blog captures my frustration with AI tools for work. Microsoft and Google are pushing tools to help...
Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and total cost of ownership, but software bugs hold it back
This NVidia monopoly on #ai hardware is not good for anybody. … X: Nicholas Wilt / @cudahandbook : NVIDIA to churn the hardware instruction set with abandon, sometimes even committing featurecide and ...
CrowdStrike says a Falcon sensor configuration update on Windows triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD, remediated after 78 minutes
Thankfully, Macs weren't affected by last week's catastrophic … Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week's major tech outage? CrowdStrike : Likely eCrime Actor Uses Filenames...
While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also gives absurd responses, highlighting the need for open-source AI models to flourish
and it's going to be hard to fix Threads: Vishwanath Sarang / @vishwanathsarang : I guess there is finally a day when I disagree with @stratechery. Do not attribute to over-engineering what can easil...
OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models
written evidence (LLM0113) Dan Milmo / The Guardian : ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Ryan Daws / AI News : Copyrighted data ‘impossible’ to avo...
OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can opt out using robots.txt
GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler and can be identified by the following user agent and string. Emilia David / The Verge : Now you can block OpenAI's web crawler Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : GPT...
Meta's Supplemental Privacy Policy for Threads says that “your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account”, surprising some users
Exactly How Private Is Meta's New Twitter Challenger? NBC 7 San Diego : Meta's Twitter Rival Threads Explodes to 50 Million Signups One Day After Launch Rael Hornby / Laptop Mag : How to delete Twitte...
While the FTC's Amazon case raises fair points in isolation, Prime overall is overwhelmingly positive for users and the FTC seems oblivious to the trade-offs
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Twitter: @thecompoundnews and @stratechery Twitter: @thecompoundnews : “The FTC's complaint about dark patterns when it comes to signing up for Prime is rooted in the ass...
Sketchy iOS app “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3”, which is not affiliated with OpenAI, is selling subscriptions and has been a top paid App Store app for days
(See also: All the Wordle clones from awhile ago.) https://www.macrumors.com/... Tweets: Tae Kim / @firstadopter : App Store app testers on ChatGPT shams https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/.....
Debunking five myths that may be sinking Meta's stock, including claims of Facebook users deserting, Instagram engagement falling, and TikTok dominating
Ben Thompson / Stratechery :