Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors
And It's Not Because of AI or Cost Cutting Surbhi Jain / Benzinga : Andy Jassy Is Turning Amazon Into The 'World's Largest Startup' — One Layer At A Time Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Amazon's CEO s...
Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including by using Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop
Here's how it works Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : Google Deploys On-Device AI to Thwart Scams on Chrome and Android India Today : Google adds Gemini Nano AI to Chrome to fight against online scams ...
Sources: Apple will launch Image Playground and Genmoji as part of iOS 18.2; Sonos cuts its plans to build ~1M Ace headphones units per year to ~100K per year
Preorder and Release Dates, Prices, and Where to Get One David Snow / Cult of Mac : These new iPhone 16 cases could replace disastrous FineWoven Ezza Ijaz / Wccftech : Last-Minute Details Suggest New ...
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o — We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real...
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...
Epic Games lays off 16% of its workforce, or ~830 employees, divests from music storefront Bandcamp, and intends to spin off “kid-tech” company SuperAwesome
Earlier today Tim Sweeney sent the following email to Epic employees: Tim Sweezy / HotHardware : Epic Games Confirms Massive Layoffs After Fortnite And Metaverse Spending Spree Jamie Crawley / CoinDes...
Hands-on with the new AI-powered Bing, which, when asked for the 2023 Grammys winners, made a list with citations in a minute; search will never be the same
CEO Satya Nadella explains why Michael Crider / PCWorld : How to try the new AI-powered Bing search Clare Duffy / CNN : I tried Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing. Here's what it's like Microsoft : Reinv...
Leaked docs show Facebook has known it has a problem related to human trafficking content for people working inside private homes, but still hasn't fixed it
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Facebook and Instagram now give users options to hide Like counts across all posts and to hide their own public Like counts from others
for your own posts and others Clare Duffy / CNN : Facebook and Instagram willl now let all users hide likes on posts Garett Sloane / Ad Age : Instagram ‘Drops’ a new place to shop as social commerce t...
Mark Zuckerberg says 1M businesses use “click to WhatsApp” ads on Facebook and Instagram that allow users to contact businesses directly via WhatsApp
Clare Duffy / CNN :