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Cybersecurity firm Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the company said a hacker accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed client files — - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
A look at the Allen Institute for AI's plan to build “open” generative AI model OLMo; the nonprofit research center is led by former Apple ML leader Ali Farhadi — The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.
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| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Why LLMs, which don't induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don't truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on — Some Reply Guy on X assured me yesteday that “transformers can multiply”. Even pointed me to a paper, allegedly offering proof.
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| Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India: |
Google expands consumer and merchant credit features on Google Pay in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more — Country Head & Vice President, Google India — With India looking at a billion connected people in the near future …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans — Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them — Today, let's talk about how the traditional platform justice system …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitch now lets creators simulcast across any live streaming service, with caveats, and adds doxxing and swatting to its Off-Service Conduct enforcement list — Previously, streamers could simulcast on mobile platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but as of Friday, Twitch is significantly broadening …
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| Adam Liptak / New York Times: |
SCOTUS pauses a ruling banning Biden administration officials from contacting social media platforms about misinformation and agrees to hear the DOJ's appeal — The court agreed to hear the administration's appeal, setting the stage for a major ruling on what the government may do to encourage sites to delete asserted misinformation.| Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature: |
London-based Samaya AI unveils an AI tool that suggests better Wikipedia references for citations the tool identifies as unlikely to support associated claims — - Chris Stokel-Walker 0 — Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK. — You can also search for this author in| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Chris Cox on Meta's plans to incorporate generative AI into its apps, making AI chatbots with personality, like a Snoop Dogg dungeon master, and more — Chief Product Officer Chris Cox on the ways artificial intelligence can improve group chats and why Meta is creating AI chatbots with personalities| Associated Press: |
Research: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude had instances of promoting harmful, inaccurate, race-based content when responding to nine medical questions — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors' notes and analyze health records …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis — Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications. — Not long after OpenAI first unveiled …
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| Davide Castelvecchi / Nature: |
IBM researchers unveil a “brain-inspired” NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory while consuming vastly less power — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — A brain-inspired computer chip …
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