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Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini's public launch from next week to January 2024, a source says as the LLM doesn't reliably handle some non-English queries — Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …
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| Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: |
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers — A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech …
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the photo and video app maker's entire team, including founder and CEO Neill Barham — Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …
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| Anthony Ha / Engadget: |
A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads — Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. — YouTube recently took dramatic action …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta updates its child safety features after a series of WSJ reports, including expanding its list of terms, phrases, and emojis related to child safety — In a blog post published today, Meta says it's expanding and updating its child safety features aimed at protecting kids …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
The threat to Intel now comes from a whole ecosystem of companies, including nearly every tech giant, although the company is still a strong competitor — Newcomers pose numerous challenges to decades of ‘Wintel’ chip dominance. — It might not look like it yet, but Intel is in a fight for its life.| Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments grew 9% YoY in Q3 2023: Apple had its best-ever Q3 with shipments up 7% YoY, Samsung fell 19% YoY, and Huawei grew 56% YoY — - The global smartwatch market rebounded with a 9% YoY rise in Q3 2023 shipments, continuing the upward trend from the previous quarter.| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
AstraZeneca signs a deal worth up to $247M with US-based Absci Corp. to harness Absci's AI tech for large-scale protein analysis to find a viable cancer therapy — Deal with Absci is the latest between big pharma and tech companies to build new disease treatments
More: Reuters
| Max Read / Read Max: |
AI doomerism will recede from public consciousness because frequent release of AI models shows that they are harmful in prosaic, rather than existential, ways — If I'm being honest, my immediate reaction to the news that Sam Altman had been fired as C.E.O. of OpenAI was something like ... relief?| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
The current members of rock band Kiss reveal digital avatars of themselves, created by George Lucas' ILM, which will tour as the band retires from live touring — On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
A look at Anthropic's governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust set to select most of its board — A long-term benefit trust will eventually pick most of Anthropic's board members. Can we trust the structure?| Alyson Shontell / Fortune: |
A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund — How Joshua Kushner won over Silicon Valley CEOs and built a $5.3 billion venture firm outside his famous family.
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