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Meta releases Large Language Model Meta AI, or LLaMA, a foundational LLM designed to help AI researchers, available in sizes ranging from 7B to 65B parameters — As part of Meta's commitment to open science, today we are publicly releasing LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans a cheaper second-gen AR/MR headset with two high-end and low-end models built by Luxcaseict and Foxconn, respectively, likely launching in 2025 — Apple's cheaper second-generation AR/VR headset will come in two high-end and low-end models, according to Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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| Sam Altman / OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its preparations for “if AGI is successfully created”, including being cautious with its models and operating as if the risks are existential — Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.
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A year after Russia's invasion, a look at the unprecedented cyberdefense effort by Ukraine and its allies against Russian wiper malware and other attacks — The Ukraine war has inspired a defensive cyber effort that government officials and technology executives describe as unprecedented.
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| Jon Rice / Blockworks: |
Jump Crypto recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit after Oasis upgraded a DeFi contract following a UK high court order — The Chicago trading firm appears to have recovered the 120,000 ether stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit … UPCOMING EVENT
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| Bloomberg: |
Financial firms like Bank of America, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase are restricting staff use of tools like ChatGPT — Wall Street is clamping down on ChatGPT as a slew of global investment banks impose restrictions on the fast-growing technology …
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Memo: Ericsson plans to lay off 8,500 of its 105K+ employees, or 8% of its staff; in December, the company said it would cut costs by ~$880M by the end of 2023 — Telecom equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) will lay off 8,500 employees globally as part of its plan to cut costs, a memo sent to employees and seen by Reuters said.
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Canada's second-largest telecom TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a hacker put up private GitHub repositories and payroll records for sale — Canada's second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to be employee data.| Derek Willis / ProPublica: |
Politwoops, a ProPublica project that tracked and archived politicians' deleted tweets since 2012, is shutting down as the required Twitter tools no longer work — Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all.
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| Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese military researchers say China plans to build and deploy a network of 12,992 low Earth orbit satellites before Starlink's network is complete in 2027 — Researchers say China plans to build a huge satellite network in near-Earth orbit to provide internet services to users around the world - and to stifle Elon Musk's Starlink .| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sequoia Capital China, which raised $8.5B in 2022, has started screening some investments for US national security concerns, a first for the company — Venture-capital firm starts screening its China arm's investments as Washington prepares to limit U.S. capital going to some Chinese tech companies
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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Source: Apple hired TV and digital video advertising executive Lauren Fry to build a video ad business for Apple TV+, which doesn't have an ad-supported tier — Apple has hired Lauren Fry, a TV and digital video advertising executive, to help build a video advertising business … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
MWC Barcelona, which starts on February 27, feels more Europe-focused with likely launches of Chinese phones already selling in China and unlikely to hit the US — In less than a week, some of the world's biggest mobile players will be crowded into the Fira de Barcelona convention center … | Vauhini Vara / Wired: |
How the founders of Buy Nothing, a project that grew via Facebook Groups of neighbors exchanging free stuff, built their own app and nearly killed the community — How an idealistic community for exchanging free stuff tried to break away from Facebook and ended up breaking apart.
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