Andreas Rinke / Reuters: Germany, France, and Italy reach a deal on AI regulation, including binding voluntary commitments for AI providers, which could accelerate EU negotiations — An agreement on how artificial intelligence should be regulated in the future has been reached by Germany, France and Italy …
Read MoreSam Altman made OpenAI into a powerhouse by adding a profit-seeking arm to its utopian mission. After the board rejected his vision, the company’s remaining leaders must figure out a new path forward.
Read MoreKalley Huang / The Information: Meta split up its Responsible AI team, moving most of its members to the generative AI team it formed in February, and others to an AI infrastructure unit — Meta Platforms has split up a team responsible for understanding and preventing harms associated with the artificial intelligence …
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority One perk of reviewing wearables is garnering insight into all the top brands available. That also means the ability to help friends and family choose the best smartwatch or fitness tracker to toss into their own carts. Historically, Garmin has been my go-to brand for athletes and big fitness enthusiasts.
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Sam Altman’s firing jeopardizes the sale of OpenAI employees’ shares; a source says the tender offer values OpenAI at ~$86B and was set to happen in December — A planned sale of OpenAI employee shares that would value the startup at about $86 billion on paper hangs in the balance
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Source: Sam Altman has been in discussions with semiconductor companies, including Arm, on Friday morning about efforts to design new chips that lower LLM costs — Sam Altman, the recently ousted CEO of OpenAI, has been telling investors that he is planning to launch a new artificial intelligence venture …
Read MoreTodd Bishop / GeekWire: A look at OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI’s origins as a non-profit organization — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday …
Read MoreCathode-Retro is a collection of shaders and sample C++ code for reliving the glorious days when graphics were composite video signals displayed on a CRT screen. How? By faking it in software and providing more configuration options than any authentic setup ever had. Love it or don’t, there’s nothing quite like it. Not satisfied with
Read MoreNothing Chats shown in a promotional image. | Image: Nothing Nothing has pulled the Nothing Chats beta from the Google Play store, saying it is “delaying the launch until further notice” while it fixes “several bugs.” The app promised to let Nothing Phone 2 users text with iMessage, but it required allowing Sunbird, who provides
Read MoreAxios: OpenAI memo: Sam Altman’s firing wasn’t due to “malfeasance” or related to financial, business, safety, or security practices but a “breakdown in communication” — Team – after yesterday’s announcement, which took us all by surprise, we have had multiple conversations …
Read MoreNothing Chats shown in a promotional image. | Image: Nothing Nothing has pulled the Nothing Chats beta from the Google Play store, saying it is “delaying the launch until further notice” while it fixes “several bugs.” The app promised to let Nothing Phone 2 users text with iMessage, but it required allowing Sunbird, who provides
Read MoreTodd Bishop / GeekWire: A look at OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI’s origins as a non-profit organization — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday …
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Nothing pulls its Sunbird-based iMessage app Nothing Chats from the Play Store after a researcher found messages are not E2EE, attachments are public, and more — Sunbird has been promising iMessage support on Android for about a year now, but the company has always seemed rather sketchy.
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: Source: Ilya Sutskever defended Altman’s ouster at an all-hands meeting, saying it was necessary to protect OpenAI’s mission of making AI beneficial to humanity — Everything seemed to be going his way. Then his time at OpenAI was over. — All over Silicon Valley …
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Satya Nadella is reportedly “furious” following Altman’s dramatic departure from OpenAI Friday. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s president and three senior researchers have resigned.
Read MorePlus: Sonos teases a new product, WIRED cover star Simone Giertz has a new invention, and the hackers behind one of the largest ever cyberattacks finally tell their story.
Read MoreI’m not a tinfoil conspiracy theorist by any means, but smartphone data privacy has been on my mind for quite some time. You can never be sure enough when it comes to data security and privacy, and there’s no better single source of information on anyone’s online (and to an extent, offline) life than their
Read MoreNew York Times: Argentina’s election has become a testing ground for use of AI in campaigns, as candidates use AI-created media to promote themselves and attack their opponent — The two men jostling to be the country’s next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other.
Read MoreThe software for the Supercon badge went down to the wire this year, with user-facing features being coded up as late as Thursday morning. This left “plenty of time” to flash the badges on Thursday afternoon, but they were admittedly still warm as the first attendees filed in on Friday morning. While I’ve always noted
Read MoreIt was predictable that the Echo Show range would feature in Amazon’s Black Friday sale, but the discounts on offer are surprisingly deep. Not only are many of the smart displays at record-low prices, but you can add in a second smart device for free or at very little cost. A prime example is the
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge While a new tentative agreement with the AMPTP has given many people hope of SAG-AFTRA’s ongoing labor strike nearing its end, the contract’s verbiage regarding the use of artificial intelligence seems to be cause for concern. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto by Eddie Costas / The Verge Google is racing headlong into the AI future, and that means different parts of the company are destined to collide with one another — Search is now generating AI-powered summary results, but flooding the web with AI-generated text is going to make search that much harder, for example.
Read MoreWelcome to the 510th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Once again we bring you the latest news and apps from the previous week. Let’s start with some of the biggest headlines from last week, which are very much dominated by Google in this week’s update: Fitbit’s latest software update brings back step streaks to iOS,
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google’s Pixel phones have stood out for their camera prowess since the very beginning. Fast-forward to 2023 and the Pixel 8 phones still offer a fantastic camera experience. Not every Pixel camera feature is a winner, though; some are simply better than others. With that in mind, we
Read MoreThis is SpaceX’s second attempt at sending Starship on a round-the-globe trip, following an April test flight that failed after only four minutes. This one lasted a few minutes longer.
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