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Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok, an AI model that the startup says surpasses rivals in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users — Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/tech, and Slashdot
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A look at companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, to potential US Copyright Office rules for AI and copyrighted content — The biggest companies in AI aren't interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why.
More: Insider, Bloomberg Law, Music Ally, The Decoder, Ars Technica, and Techdirt
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese startup 01.AI, launched in March 2023 by computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee, reaches a $1B+ valuation and releases its AI model Yi-34B in Chinese and English — - 01.AI's model outperforms Meta's Llama 2 on certain metrics — Startup to offer open-source model; proprietary options later
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| TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with Google Play Protect's real-time scanning for sideloaded Android apps, which didn't stop five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing — Here's our hands-on review of the new Android security feature — Android's in-built security engine Google Play Protect …
More: MacRumors, The Tech Report, and MakeUseOf
| David Gilbert / Wired: |
A look at CulturePulse, which is building an AI model to create a virtual version of Israel and Palestinian territories and has signed a nine-month UN contract — CulturePulse's AI model promises to create a realistic virtual simulation of Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Threads: @carnage4life, @tomgara, and @jake_liebert
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LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru, Clara Lin Hawking, and Nanjira Sambuli
| Mike Young / AIModels.fyi: |
Researchers say AI models like GPT-4 respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context because of how these models handle nuanced prompts — Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context — In the grand narrative …
More: Arxiv, The Decoder, The Keygen, and Stack Diary
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| Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian: |
WhatsApp's AI generates stickers of kids with guns when prompted with “Palestine”, but prompts for “Israeli” generate stickers of people who are mostly smiling — A WhatsApp feature that generates images in response to users' searches returns a picture of a gun …
More: The Economic Times, Benzinga, International Business Times, Livemint, and The Verge
| Akinobu Iwasawa / Nikkei Asia: |
LexisNexis: IBM had 6,363 cybersecurity patents as of August 2023, followed by Huawei with 5,735 and Tencent with 4,803; six of the top 10 companies are Chinese — Chinese companies account for 6 of top 10 in field while IBM remains No. 1 — Chinese companies have made headway …
More: Huawei Central and CNBC
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind Head of Robotics Vincent Vanhoucke on the robotics team's history, general purpose robots, generative AI's role in robotics, and more — [A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch's robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.]| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Okta's autopsy report on its support system breach understated the role of a badly configured service account, the biggest contributing factor to the breach — If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong. — Identity and authentication management provider Okta … | New York Times: |
Sources: GM spent an average of $588M per quarter on Cruise over the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist its vehicles every 2.5 to 5 miles — Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow about its C.E.O.'s expansion plans.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/RealTesla, and Slashdot
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A look at the gap between Amazon's dazzling drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects can be delivered when the weather allows — Amazon's much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways. Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone.
More: The Verge. Threads: @alexkantrowitz. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @waldoj@mastodon.social, and @seriouslyjeff@social.jeffl.es
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