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OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and its API, which has a waitlist — Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …
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| Yusuf Mehdi / Bing Blogs: |
Microsoft says the new Bing is “running on GPT-4, which we've customized for search” — Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today. — We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, customized for search.
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Jordi Ribas
| New York Times: |
GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but is still hallucinating — OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways. It's more accurate, but it still makes things up.| TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to cut 10,000 jobs and withdraw ~5,000 open roles, four months after cutting 11,000 jobs, and cancel “lower priority projects” — Meta plans to cut its workforce by another 10,000 people and withdraw around 5,000 open roles that it had yet to fill …
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Clinton McKellar and Marina Koytcheva
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google unveils generative AI features for Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides, and other Workspace apps, helping users write text, summarize content, and create images — Google has announced a suite of upcoming generative AI features for its various Workspace apps, including Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides.
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Aubrey Chambers. Tweets:
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google launches an API for its PaLM language model and a MakerSuite app to help developers train PaLM, expands support for generative AI in Vertex AI, and more — Google is offering developers access to one of its most advanced AI language models: PaLM. The search giant is launching an API … | Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FDIC is planning another auction of SVB, after failing to find a suitor on March 12; at least one offer had been made but was rejected by the FDIC — Auction comes after failed attempt to find suitor on Sunday — The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: What You Need to Know| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
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| David Enrich / New York Times: |
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Herb Greenberg, Ethan Evans, Will Paige, Julia Caesar, and Naira J.. Mastodon:
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| Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft signs a 10-year deal with cloud gaming startup Boosteroid to distribute Call of Duty games if the Activision bid is approved; Boosteroid has ~4M users — Agreement is part of push to convince regulators that the planned $75 billion acquisition won't harm the videogame industry
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@logmey92, @fedorovmykhailo, @koreaxboxnews, and @tomwarren
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple delays some employee bonuses as the company moves to once-a-year payouts, slows down hiring more, keeps more positions open, and reins in travel — Apple Inc. is delaying bonuses for some corporate divisions and expanding a cost-cutting effort, joining Silicon Valley peers … | Platformer: |
Sources: Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams that was tasked with identifying the risks of integrating OpenAI's tech into its suite of products — As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone — I.
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| Reuters: |
Sources and documents: India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removing pre-installed apps and mandate screening major OS updates via new security rules — India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system …
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Apple Must, Neowin, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Inc42 Media, and TechRadar
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon reveals a range of consumer terminals that connect to Project Kuiper, starting at under $400, and now plans to launch the first satellites in H1 2024 — Amazon has revealed a range of customer terminals that connect to its broadband satellite network, Project Kuiper.
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About Amazon, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Engadget, TechSpot, CNBC, TechCrunch, SlashGear, CNET, Bloomberg, BGR, and RCR Wireless News
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple announces Shop With a Specialist Over Video, a live video session available from 7am to 7pm PT on its website for US customers looking to buy an iPhone — Apple today announced that customers in the U.S. can now connect with an Apple Specialist over a live video session while shopping for an iPhone on the company's online store.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic, co-founded by former OpenAI employees, debuts Claude, a ChatGPT rival the startup says is less likely to hallucinate; companies can request access — Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence startup, is making its rival chatbot to OpenAI's popular ChatGPT available to businesses that want to add it to their products.
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@notionhq, @dinabass, and @rachelmetz
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Binance suspends UK deposit and withdrawal services via bank transfers and card payments after its local banking partner Paysafe stopped supporting UK pounds — Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange, is suspending deposit and withdrawal services via bank transfers …
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| Rest of World: |
An in-depth look at tech's terrible 2022 in numbers: VC deal value down 38%, IPOs falling, an 85% drop in new unicorns, layoffs impacting 280,000+, and more — Reduced investment and large-scale layoffs have created dark times for tech globally. — In March 2022, the future of Muni, a Colombian e-commerce startup, looked bright.
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Sophie Schmidt. Tweets:
@restofworld, @restofworld, @karenkho, @cengizyar, @carnage4life, and @vickiturk
| Bloomberg: |
Source: US prosecutors are scrutinizing Telegram group chats between Jump, Jane Street, and Alameda employees in May 2022 over the TerraUSD stablecoin collapse — US prosecutors are scrutinizing chat-group conversations among prominent trading firms including Jump Trading Group and Jane Street Group …
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Bloomberg Law. Tweets:
@tier10k, @yueqi_yang, @mjpldn, @smdiehl, @theskyhopper, @yueqi_yang, @tier10k, and @newmoneyreview
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
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Crypto Daily, Cryptopolitan, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoin News, and crypto.news
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@fintechfrank, @poordart, @fatmanterra, and @autismcapital
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Open Health Stack, open-source tools centered on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standards, for developers making health apps — Google announced a new open-source program called Open Health Stack for developers to build health-related apps.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to add 3D avatars for all Teams users in May 2023, after announcing the feature in 2021 and testing the functionality privately in recent months — Microsoft originally announced the avatars feature in 2021 and has been testing it privately in recent months.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator scales back its late stage team, laying off 17 employees, or ~20% of YC staff, calling late stage investing a “distraction from our core mission” — Y Combinator will be writing less checks toward late-stage companies, a scale back that also cost 17 team members …
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