OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers to candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for teaching AI in the coming months
here's what CEO Sam Altman revealed at the White House tech dinner Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : OpenAI to launch jobs platform linking employers and AI experts Shubhangi Chowd...
Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs
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Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters
Takeaways — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.
Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters
Takeaways — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.
Sesame, headed by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, exits stealth with an undisclosed amount of funding, unveiling an AI speech model and plans for AI glasses
Here's an embedded 13-minute audio clip of my first attempt! — www.theverge.com/news/621022/ ... X: @sesame : At Sesame, we believe in a future where computers are lifelike. Toda...
Threads now lets users see and like fediverse replies on other posts besides their own, and will syndicate posts submitted via the Threads API to the fediverse
Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon …
OpenAI adds Structure Outputs, a feature to ensure model-generated outputs match JSON Schemas, to its API and offers lower pricing for new GPT-4o model versions
We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand
and more importantly their team—a massive disservice. I would be devastated if I was an employee. It's low energy. … Casey Newton / @crumbler : I tried out Humane's long-awaited ...
Three US senators unveil the bipartisan Open App Markets Act, which would force app stores to allow sideloading and let developers use their own IAP systems
Legislation would place new limits on how Apple and Google app stores can operate — WASHINGTON—Senators introduced legislation Wednesday … Source: United States Senator … .
TSMC says its 4nm chip process is on track for risk production at end of 2021 and mass production in 2022, 3nm is expected in H2 2022, and 2nm is in development
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Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++
Android as a complete OS solution involves a lot of moving parts. Very broadly speaking, these parts are the app ecosystem and then the OS itself.
Sponsor of Arizona's HB2005 bill, which allows alternative payment systems in app stores, says it won't get a hearing this year after being pulled last week
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg discusses AR/VR and says that by 2030, he expects people with smart glasses to “teleport” to locations for in-person meetings
- Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that by 2030, people could use advanced smart glasses to “teleport” to other people's homes … Source: The Information .
Zuckerberg criticized Apple at companywide meeting, saying the App Store “blocks innovation, blocks competition” and “allows Apple to charge monopoly rents”
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Apple has terminated Epic's App Store account, following legal dispute between the companies; Epic has an alternative Apple account to manage its Unreal Engine
As previously warned by Apple, Epic's App Store account has now been terminated due to the Fortnite developer knowingly violating App Store policy.
Facebook says it will unify its AR/VR teams into a group called Facebook Reality Labs, renames Oculus Connect event to Facebook Connect, to be held on Sept. 16
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Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Play Store, after over a year of offering it only outside the store, noting Google puts sideloaded apps at a disadvantage
Epic Games is finally settling its feud — kind of — with Google and putting Fornite onto the Google Play Store, but the studio sounds pretty pissed about it.
Sources: Apple is in the process of acquiring the California-based VR startup NextVR in a deal valued around $100M
It's no secret that Apple has ambitious plans for augmented reality and a future AR-focused headset. Apple is practically building the platform for its future headset out in the o...
As part of Safari's privacy push, it will delete a site's local storage, like Indexed DB, after seven days of inactivity, hamstringing Safari's offline web apps
time to ditch Chrome? Sleyhane / New board topics in Shopify Community : Safari 13.1 and embedded apps John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Safari Now Has Full Third-Party Cookie Blocki...
Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, developer of Asgard's Wrath, for an undisclosed amount; the game studio will remain independent under Oculus Studios
Studio behind Asgard's Wrath to join Oculus Studios and continue VR development — Facebook has acquired Asgard's Wrath developer Sanzaru Games for an undisclosed amount.