ChatGPT’s usage continues to grow, with over 1.8 billion monthly visits and 10 million daily queries as of this writing. It runs on GPT-4, a large language model (LLM), which has several competitors, including Google Lamda, Hugging Face’s BLOOM, Nvidia’s NeMO LLM, and others. There’s significant excitement, fear, hype, and investment around ChatGPT, LLMs, and other
Read MoreEver since the launch of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, the world has been abuzz about AI, and rightfully so. We’ve seen how AI can be used to create movie trailers, write content, and can even pass medical, law, and business school exams. Its capabilities are undeniably impressive and expected to have a
Read MoreImage: Twitter Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk’s weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com — Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend.
Read MoreKai Ye / Wired: A profile of Moxie Marlinspike and Signal, from copying WhatsApp’s UX to pioneering E2EE, and its aim to reach “everyone on the planet” while upholding privacy — The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority.
Read MoreThe Sony Xperia 5 V has apparently appeared in a leaked video ad. It looks like Sony is ditching the triple-camera system in favor of a dual-camera setup. The phone also seems to retain the 3.5mm port of prior models. Sony released the Xperia 1 V earlier this year, continuing the trend of a super-powered
Read MoreThe new user-submitted Twitter logo that Musk says he’ll probably refine later. | Image: Twitter X.com now redirects to Twitter.com, following a tweet from Twitter owner Elon Musk today, and an “interim X logo” will soon replace the Twitter bird logo. Leading up to the change, Musk spent a lot of time tweeting about it.
Read MoreWeather can have a significant impact on transport and operations of all kinds, especially those at sea or in the air. This makes it a deeply important field of study, particularly in wartime. If you’re at all curious about how this kind of information was gathered and handled in the days before satellites and computer
Read MoreFinancial Times: The Worldcoin Foundation rolls out its Worldcoin token, received after using an eye-scanning “orb”, in 35 cities; Worldcoin plans to retain 20% of its tokens — Start-up co-founded by OpenAI chief faces regulatory pushback in US — Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project …
Read MoreGenerative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly relevant in various industries such as banking, healthcare, and retail. When these AI capabilities are applied to the legal services domain, it opens up avenues for streamlining mundane tasks and tackling complex challenges with greater speed and precision. In-house counsel teams could be major beneficiaries leveraging Generative AI
Read MoreMike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: A look at the Boston Fed’s Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 amid opposition from anti-CBDC legislators — Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just as we’ve learned the
Read MoreAttempts to make a viable nuclear fusion reactor have on the whole been the domain of megabucks projects supported by countries or groups of countries, such as the European JET or newer ITER projects. This is not to say that smaller efforts aren’t capable of making their own advances, operations in both the USA and
Read MoreBen Eisen / Wall Street Journal: Small-time US entrepreneurs are amassing vehicles to rent out through services such as Turo and Getaround or their own websites to take on Hertz and Avis Budget — Entrepreneurs rent out fleets of cars through services including Turo and Getaround or build their own websites
Read MoreGlobal companies are offering free products to get access to live combat data. The Ukrainian government wants to keep this resource for its own emerging defense industry.
Read MoreThe job of processing video after a large event must be a thankless one for whichever volunteer upon whose shoulders it falls, and thus it’s not unusual for talks at larger events to end up online much later than the event itself. Electromagnetic Field 2022 was last year, but they have continued to drop new
Read MoreBen Smith / Semafor: Sources: IAC, News Corp, the NYT, and other publishers are forming a coalition to push for AI laws and lead a lawsuit against AI firms who trained on their data — Barry Diller fired publishers’ opening shot at artificial intelligence platforms in a Semafor interview this April …
Read MoreIt may be midwinter in Perth, but people still go to the beach there, which led to the surprising discovery earlier this week of what appears to be a large hunk of space debris. Local authorities quickly responded to reports of a barnacle-encrusted 2.5-m by 3-m tank-like object on the beach. The object, which has
Read MoreMorgan Meaker / Wired: A profile of Munich-based Helsing, whose battlefield AI distills data from weapons systems and sensors like infrared and sonar into a visualization in real time — Helsing AI is building an operating system for warfare and says it’ll only ever sell to democracies. — On the screen in front of me
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple is using an internal chatbot to help its employees “prototype future features, summarize text and answer questions based on data it has been trained with,” says Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in Power On today. Apple hasn’t been sure what it wants to do with its Apple GPT chatbot project on the customer-facing
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Nearly 200 US school districts have joined lawsuits against Meta, ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet, alleging their apps cause disciplinary and mental health issues — Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube seek to dismiss federal suits, citing internet liability shield
Read MoreWhen the bankruptcy of VanMoof, the company behind a series of e-bikes, was announced recently, many probably shrugged at this news. After all, what is an e-bike but a regular bicycle that has some electronics and a battery strapped to it to assist with cycling? Unfortunately for owners of a VanMoof e-bike, their fancy wheels
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Nearly 200 US school districts have joined lawsuits against Meta, ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet, alleging their apps cause disciplinary and mental health issues — Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube seek to dismiss federal suits, citing internet liability shield
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple is using an internal chatbot to help its employees “prototype future features, summarize text and answer questions based on data it has been trained with,” says Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in Power On today. Apple hasn’t been sure what it wants to do with its Apple GPT chatbot project on the customer-facing
Read MoreImage: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Netflix isn’t planning to make a native version of its app for the Vision Pro, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. Instead, he says, the company will allow its existing iPad app to run, unmodified, on Apple’s forthcoming mixed reality headset. As Gurman’s piece points
Read MorePixel Fold Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons The Pixel Fold is one of the better foldable phones out there, distilling Google’s smartphone strengths into a refreshingly different design. It isn’t without issues, though, much like any other smartphone. But there’s one significant software omission that’s gone under the radar,
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