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Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini's public launch from next week to January 2024; a source says 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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| New York Times: |
A deep dive into the founding of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as many of their backers feared the risks of advanced AI, but hoped to safely shape it — The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.
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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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Chase Bank could be an ideal Goldman Sachs replacement for Apple Card, as it uses the same Mastercard network and already has a strong relationship with Apple — Apple and Goldman Sachs are on the verge of splitting up, and Chase is the ideal partner to step in.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Researchers show AI misalignment in a GPT-4-based stock trading bot that performed insider trading in a simulated environment without being instructed to do so — Also OpenAI's board, kangaroo grazing and bank box-checking. — AI MNPI — Here you go, insider trading robot:
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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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| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Kiss' three current members reveal digital avatars of themselves, created by Pophouse and George Lucas' ILM, which will tour as the rock band stops 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.
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Internal docs: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in public preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data”, like AWS data center locations — Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
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Threads: @bernie_michalik, @technicallymims, @drewtipson, @jhsolorzanouio, @goldengateblond, @reporterzoe, @reporterzoe, @andrewwebster, @jonathangarelick, @trevorcroker, and @parkerortolani
Mastodon: @kennwhite@mastodon.social and @kellogh@hachyderm.io
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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 chip giant 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.| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
AstraZeneca signs a deal worth up to $247M with US-based Absci to harness its AI tech for large-scale protein analysis and design an antibody to fight cancer — Deal with Absci is the latest between big pharma and tech companies to build new disease treatments| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systematically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including from Sundar Pichai — On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company's conduct …
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