Adam Mosseri says Threads is rebalancing ranking to prioritize content from people that users follow, warns that creators' “unconnected” reach may go down
As Bluesky's user numbers continue to rise, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says Threads will change its For You page to show fewer posts from accounts you don't follow.
Google adds an option for NotebookLM users to customize audio summaries, launches a NotebookLM Business pilot, and says 80K+ organizations use the tool
RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: Logan Kilpatrick / @officiallogank : Great news for NotebookLM fans: Audio Overviews can now be customized and steered before generating + we are...
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Brian Penny / @thebrianpenny : Great quick read from Gary Marcus pointing to several studies from ML researchers at Apple and Stanford pointing out ...
A profile of Li-Chen Miller, Meta VP of product for wearables and a former Microsoft CVP; IDC says Meta has shipped 700K+ Ray-Ban units after the 2023 launch
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A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device
Many people have wondered what Jony Ive has been up to since he left Apple five years ago.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material
Google attempts to expand “AI” text generators from making fake text nobody wanted to read to making fake podcasts that nobody wanted to listen to. — Way past time for regulators...
Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in local search services and local search advertising markets
Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival's landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.
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 …
Twilio says “threat actors” identified its 2FA app Authy users' phone numbers; last week, ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio
It's not even about the data breaches - although important, Authy also sends data about which websites you're logging into. … X: Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : The first rule o...
Twilio says “threat actors” identified its 2FA app Authy users' phone numbers; last week, ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio
Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio.
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts; Microsoft account owners can generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS
To celebrate, we're announcing passkey support for your Microsoft account! Faster, safer sign-in has arrived. … Vasu Jakkal : Happy World Password Day! 🩷 Ten years ago, Microsoft...
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program
Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program
Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.
With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that could develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards
With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that can develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards
Joan Westenberg : Threads: @parkert , @rstephens , @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @parkerortolani , @justinfineberg_ , and @hi.im.vijay . X: @andrewchen Threads: Parker Thomp...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”
The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …
Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop clear, consistent moderation policies and to manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war
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Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024
Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do. It's worth celebrating that there's...
Alphabet plans to wind down Google Domains and sell its assets, including ~10M domains, to Squarespace in Q3 2023, a source says for ~$180M; SQSP jumps 9%+
Alphabet Inc. is winding down its Google Domains business and selling its assets to Squarespace Inc., according to a statement Thursday.
In a case study, researchers estimate that between 33% and 46% of Mechanical Turk workers used LLMs when completing a text summarization task
File this one under inevitable, but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans …