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...
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more
Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Reuters : Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI Kara Carlson / USA Tod...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
OpenAI, Stanford, and Georgetown researchers warn disinformation campaigns could use LLMs and propose governments could restrict training data and AI hardware
Chloe Xiang / VICE : Tweets: @motherboard , @lorakolodny , @marshallk , @leahmcelrath , @tante , @mistresssnowphd , and @danmcquillan Tweets: @motherboard : The researchers also propose stricter cont...
How Substack is trying to balance the constraints of its own ideology of putting authors and readers first with its commitment to growth via its new mobile app
In the Spring of 2018 I got invited by the CEO of Substack to come to Toronto for a couple days to hang out with the whole team … Tweets: @nbashaw , @shortformernie , @navalang , @faris , @marshallk ,...
TikTok launches music distribution platform SoundOn in the US, the UK, Brazil, and Indonesia, letting artists upload music to TikTok, Resso, Spotify, and more
Introducing ‘SoundOn’ Lydia Farthing / MusicRow.com : TikTok Launches Its Own Music Marketing & Distribution Service Aaron Williams / UPROXX : TikTok Launches A New Tool To Help Artists On The Platfor...
Stack Overflow, which has 100M+ monthly visitors, says it will be acquired by Prosus, a European tech giant and Tencent's largest shareholder, for $1.8B
and also mints 61 new millionaires. Joel Spolsky / @spolsky : New blog post: Kinda a big announcement https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ ... Jack Forge / @thejackforge : For those that didn't know that S...
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6
Manage your Stratechery subscription. Scroll Blog : Scroll is joining Twitter! Casey Newton / Platformer : Twitter subscribes to Scroll Dave Winer / Scripting News : Having written so much about paywa...
[Thread] Democratic campaign tech projects suffer from one-off startup-like funding with no money for further development, lack of trust between campaigns, more
complicating processes that would otherwise manage just fine 👇 https://twitter.com/... Christina Holland / @americanwombat : This is a really detailed account of specific companies and people and deci...
Radiohead says they're releasing 18 hours' worth of unheard music to benefit climate change group, after hackers stole lead singer's files and attempted ransom
And Won Brian Barrett / Wired : Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Radiohead releases 18 hours of demos, thwarting alleged extortion attempt Exti...