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OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that 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” and was using an early version of the model over the past five weeks  —  Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today.  —  We are happy to confirm that the new Bing …
New York Times:
GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and more accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but still hallucinates
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired integrates GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a Virtual Volunteer feature in closed beta
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 …
Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block:
Meta plans to wind down its work on NFTs “for now” to focus on streamlining Meta Pay, making checkout and payouts easier, and investing in messaging payments
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.
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 …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Alleged renders of the Pixel 8 Pro appear to show a flat ~6.52" display and the addition of a new sensor on the camera bar  —  Leak season is starting.  Following a retail leak of Pixel Fold and Pixel 7a just today, the first renders of Google Pixel 8 Pro have arrived, showing off a mysterious new sensor on the camera bar.
David Enrich / New York Times:
Signature's and SVB's collapse follow GOP-led Dodd-Frank reforms that raised the “stress test” threshold from $50B to $250B, pushed by executives at both banks  —  Officials with Signature and Silicon Valley banks, which regulators seized in recent days, called for looser financial requirements for midsize banks.
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
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit says its website and mobile apps are “currently offline” due to “an internal systems issue” and that the company is working to “determine a fix”  —  I'm consistently seeing an error message when trying to load Reddit on my Chrome browser.
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube launches early multiview access for YouTube TV, letting US viewers watch up to four, pre-selected streams simultaneously, initially for sports content  —  YouTube TV is today announcing a new feature that may help the live TV service attract more subscribers — and particularly those who like to watch live sports.
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.
Forbes:
Adept, which is building an AI model that can turn text commands into computer actions, raised $350M in a Series B, sources say at a $1B+ post-money valuation  —  Chatbots rule the day in AI for now, but soon, Adept cofounder David Luan predicts, AI won't just display unsettlingly human responses to typed queries, it will execute them.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
NPR retracts an article saying Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring; he has made no such announcement, and a spokesman called the story “inaccurate”

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Dish DBS and several subsidiaries file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas; the company expects to emerge from bankruptcy by the third quarter

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix and Eureka Productions worked with ElevenLabs to use AI to re-create Gene Wilder's voice as Willy Wonka for a new unscripted series

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