Image: JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images Samsung has started to detail its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, that can run locally on devices. Korea Times reports that Gauss will be integrated into the next Galaxy S24 handset, expected in early 2024. Samsung showcased Gauss during its own AI forum this week, revealing how the
Read MoreArtificial intelligence has become massively popular over the past few years, with AI chatbots and image-generation software popping up left and right. Out of all of the AI chatbots that have been popularized, perhaps the most popular of all has been ChatGPT. OpenAI, the company behind it, has had a lengthier history than most realize.
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Binance releases a self-custody crypto wallet within its app, letting users “swap thousands of tokens across” more than 30 networks — – The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange launches a self-custody wallet that works within the Binance app. — The announcement was made during its conference in Turkey.
Read MoreGearoid Reidy / Bloomberg: A look at Nintendo’s movie push, as the company partners with Sony to work on a live-action Zelda movie, after the huge success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie — It’s dangerous to go alone, and in teaming up with Sony and the man who made Marvel successful, Nintendo shows it
Read MoreGreen bubbles in Apple’s Messages app. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge iMessage serves as “an important gateway between business users and their customers” and should be regulated as a “core” service under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), said Google and a group of major European telcos in a letter
Read MoreFor the first time, guerrilla animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere reveals a guide to its investigative tactics and toolkit, from spy cams to night vision and drones.
Read MoreIllustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta announced Wednesday that it would require advertisers to disclose when potentially misleading AI-generated or altered content is featured in political, electoral, or social issue ads. The new rule applies to advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that contain “realistic” images, videos, or audio falsely showing someone doing something they
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: Meta plans to require advertisers to disclose running political ads with media altered by AI or other software, starting in early 2024, ahead of the US election — Facebook parent said new policy to go into effect beginning next year, ahead of U.S. presidential primaries
Read MoreTobias Mann / The Register: Microsoft and Oracle sign a multi-year deal to “support the explosive growth of AI services”, meaning Microsoft can access Oracle’s Nvidia A100s and H100 GPUs — Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster — Demand for Microsoft’s AI services …
Read MoreJuro Osawa / The Information: Sources: Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund, and other big Chinese VCs have quietly invested in US AI startups in the past year, undeterred by US security concerns — Major Chinese venture capital firms are quietly investing in American artificial intelligence startups, undeterred by growing concerns …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Code within the latest beta version of Google Maps indicates that Google could add a chatbot to the app. We speculate that the chatbot could be used for the Local Guides program or possibly other uses. Google Maps is one of the best free Android apps that you can
Read MoreJane Zhang / Bloomberg: Source: in a letter to staff, ByteDance offers to buy back stock at $160 per share, up from $155 in April 2023; ByteDance says the goal is to provide liquidity — – The price is up from April’s employee buyback of $155 each — ByteDance has grown at expense of incumbents
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google and big European telecom companies have reportedly approached the European Commission to make iMessage comply with the Digital Markets Act. In a letter to the regulator, the group argues that iMessage should be designated as a gatekeeper service, forcing it to become interoperable with other messaging apps. Google
Read MoreDieter Holger / Wall Street Journal: How AI-driven robots and optical sorters are being used to pick up and sort recyclable trash, as US recyclers deal with labor shortages and rising costs — Recyclers struggle with a shortage of workers and rising costs. Robots and optical sorters may be able to help make the business
Read MoreHere at Hackaday, we feature all kinds of projects, and we love them all the same. But some projects are a little easier to love than others, especially those that get the job done in as simple a way as possible, with nothing extra to get in the way. This completely electronics-free water gauge is
Read MoreSamsung will no longer provide security updates for the original Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Fold 5G. Other devices from 2019, like the Galaxy A20s, Galaxy A30s, Galaxy A50s, Galaxy A70s, and Galaxy Tab Active Pro, will also no longer receive any security updates. The original Galaxy Fold will be remembered for being the first mainstream
Read MoreGrand Theft Auto V was a huge hit. | Image: Getty Rockstar Games reportedly plans to reveal Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment in the hugely popular open-world franchise, as early as this week. Bloomberg reports that an announcement could come this week, with a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI set to drop
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: In a letter, Google and EU telcos called on the European Commission to designate iMessage as a “core” service to make the chat app fully compatible with rivals — Companies want chat app designated a ‘core’ service that would require it to be fully compatible with rivals
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google is rolling out an update for the Pixel Watch 2 LTE version. Google says the software carries the November security patch, but users are still seeing the October patch after the update. The Google Pixel Watch 2 running Wear OS 4 is now getting its first software
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Cast AI, whose automation tools help companies monitor, manage, and optimize Kubernetes spend, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to $73M — The mass move to digital during the pandemic and the embrace of generative AI accelerated cloud adoption, and the trend hasn’t reversed.
Read MoreBryson Masse / VentureBeat: In a comment submitted to the US Copyright Office, the FTC warned that generative AI has enabled potential copyright infringement and consumer deception — The U.S. Copyright Office has already repeatedly weighed in on creations made with generative artificial intelligence (AI) …
Read MoreSarah Wu / Reuters: As TSMC shifts more production outside Taiwan, a look the domestic chip industry’s increasingly fraught complaints about land shortages across the island — Wearing rain ponchos and holding photos of their ancestral temples near Hsinchu, Taiwan’s semiconductor capital …
Read MoreSam Byford / Multicore: Opinion: Leica helped Xiaomi create a flagship that takes better photos than iPhone, and their partnership makes sense despite Xiaomi copying some iOS elements — It’s past time to start taking Chinese phones seriously, whether you’ve used one or not — Xiaomi launched its new 14 Pro flagship phone …
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple has begun working on iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, and watchOS 11. However, after a development milestone, too many bugs were spotted to have escaped beta testing. As a result, Apple has paused feature development and focused its resources on fixing these bugs. This pause is unlikely
Read MoreJacob Judah / MIT Technology Review: How .tk, the ccTLD for New Zealand’s Tokelau territory that until recently had more users than any other ccTLD, became a domain of choice for cybercriminals — Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on
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