After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...
After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles
Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …
Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue
President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …
Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more
- Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping
Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8%
- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+
- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist
a great hire for anthropic Shakeel / @shakeelhashim : Big get for Anthropic: one of OpenAI's first employees and a long-time Google AI scientist. @luke_metro : Announcing this in t...
Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B
Company behind ChatGPT is aiming to raise around $6.5 billion in funding set to close next week — Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected …
Docs: OpenAI had $300M in monthly revenue in August, up 1,700% since early 2023, 350M MAUs in June, and expects ~$3.7B in annual sales but $5B in losses in 2024
As the company looks for more outside investors, documents reviewed by The New York Times show consumer fascination with ChatGPT and a serious need for more cash.
Sam Altman claims “deep learning worked”, superintelligence may be “a few thousand days” away, and “astounding triumphs” will incrementally become commonplace
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells staff to return to the office five days per week from January 2, 2025, citing the importance of the policy to the company's culture
Amazon orders employees back to the office five days a week Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy orders employees back to the office 5 days a week in one of the ...
Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech
In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.
Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech
In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.
How Scale AI's $13.8B valuation from May 2024's $1B funding round is almost certainly too high, given below-average margins, a reliance on few clients, and more
Cory Weinberg / The Information : Threads: @paul_rietschka . X: @coryweinberg and @coryweinberg Threads: Paul Rietschka / @paul_rietschka : This company with its high school gradu...
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal Google Search API documentation, including many claims that seem to contradict Google's public statements
On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.
xAI raised a $6B Series B from Valor, Vy Capital, a16z, Sequoia, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding, and others, Elon Musk says at an $18B pre-money valuation
xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion. — xAI is pleased to announce...
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored
Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product. Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”
Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more
' I don't think we can have a conversation about disinformation without having a conversation about the role of massive homogenous platforms that have cannibalized … @researchbuzz@...