Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew ...
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia discusses working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA and says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published
Gov't tech workers I spoke to went bonkers when DOGE workers began connecting non-government laptops to their systems. … Jacob Harris / @jacobharr.is : Reading Sahil Lavingia's blo...
Source: OpenAI plans to release a new ChatGPT feature called Operator this week to automate complex tasks typically done via a web browser
OpenAI is preparing to release a new ChatGPT feature this week that will automate complex tasks typically done through the Web browser …
OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence
Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI :
Six AI and ML experts detail what they learned from building real-world applications on top of LLMs over the past year, including common prompting pitfalls
‘What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)’ — https://www.oreilly.com/... Hallucinations are still a big problem; RAGs are better than fine-tuning; long context...
The US IRS starts testing its free, “mobile friendly” English and Spanish direct e-filing system, with some low- and moderate-income taxpayers in 12 US states
> The direct file pilot will be open to low- and moderate-income taxpayers with simple returns. … X: Daniel Castro / @castrotech : “...the I.R.S. could fill out tax returns with in...
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,” …
Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram now lets users add up to five links to their account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and other “link in bio” services
I am delighted for you that for the moment Meta has given you the ability to put up to to 5 links in your bios. How long they will allow that will be interesting to see. Maybe it...
Facebook's wav2vec Unsupervised, a way to build speech recognition systems that require no transcribed data, may bring automatic translations to more countries
Wav2vec Unsupervised (wav2vec-U) … Tiernan Ray / ZDNet : Facebook AI cuts by more than half the error rate of unsupervised speech recognition Donald Conway / Insider Voice : Facebo...