2026-02-19
at some point this just turns into starlink flipping a switch and letting everyone bypass their local internet 1000 year american empire
Reuters
Sources: the US State Department is building an online portal at freedom.gov that will let users in Europe and elsewhere see content banned by their governments
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned …
at some point this just turns into starlink flipping a switch and letting everyone bypass their local internet 1000 year american empire
The Guardian
Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls
Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat
2024-04-10
looking forward to massively upgraded siri
AppleInsider
Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens
this AI can read your iPhone screen Mini Games / The Indian Express : Apple's ‘Ferret-UI’ AI model could understand what's on your screen in a new way Oliver Haslam / iMore : Apple...
2023-11-20
Microsoft spending $40+ billion on compute in 2024, now with the full talent of the best parts of OpenAI, Microsoft's existing distribution networks (and data!!!) ... 🤯
TechCrunch
Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …
2023-08-03
excited to see the community extend it by training it on tons of libraries of good (copyrighted) music since they don't have the same legal risk in regard to music labels
The Verge
Meta releases AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that lets users create music and sounds via text prompts, consisting of MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec models
rather than “don't tell anyone” web-scale scraped. See Model cards for links: https://audiocraft.metademolab.com/ [image] @metaai : AudioCraft consists of three models: MusicGen, A...