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Sources: Google delayed the public launch of Gemini from next week to January 2024, after finding that the LLM didn'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 …
More: 9to5Google. Threads: @wongmjane. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @HoustonDog@mastodon.world
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the entire team at the maker of photo and video apps, including its founder and CEO — 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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| Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: |
How a California college is employing data collection tools to track students' daily movements, including 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 …
More: The Harvard Crimson. Mastodon: @anand@mastodon.sdf.org, @trent@eigenmagic.net, @irisRichardson@mastodon.art, @thatandromeda@ohai.social, @craignewmark@mastodon.social, and @theADHDAcademic …. Bluesky: @audhdylan.bsky.social
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Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in 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
More: Business Insider, GeekWire, DatacenterDynamics, MSPoweruser, and SiliconANGLE
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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 …
More: Ars Technica, TechSpot, Android Police, and Android Authority
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Forums: Hacker News, r/pcmasterrace, r/Adblock, r/webdev, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Max Read / Read Max: |
AI doomerism will recede from public consciousness as frequent release of AI models shows that they are harmful in prosaic ways 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?| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systemically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including those by Pichai — On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company's conduct …
More: Thurrott and Android Headlines
| 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 that will select most its board — A long-term benefit trust will eventually pick most of Anthropic's board members. Can we trust the structure?| Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments grew 9% YoY in Q3 2023: Apple had its best-ever Q3 performance with shipments up 7% YoY, Huawei grew 56%, and Samsung fell 19% — - The global smartwatch market rebounded with a 9% YoY rise in Q3 2023 shipments, continuing the upward trend from the previous quarter.
More: iClarified, Huawei Central, Zee Business, Seeking Alpha, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, and 9to5Mac
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says Threads won't get chronological search results, which “would create a substantial safety loophole” — Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says letting users see search results chronologically “would create a substantial safety loophole.”
More: Mashable. Threads: @nguyenhuudailoc, @ajc_yul, @lareinaxiomara, @notatoad, @neptunemoonllc, @jason_cross00, @hasanahmad, @mosseri, @mosseri, @corybe, @mosseri, and @haticeavci. X: @deniseshrivell
| 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.
X: @ajs, @ajs, @luke_metro, @ajs, @davidmarcus, and @fortunemagazine
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta says it is updating 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 …
More: Meta, PetaPixel, and TechCrunch
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: Engadget, The Messenger, and The Information
Threads: @georgescriban. X: @safetechlabs, @jason_kint, @ttp_updates, @jeffhorwitz, @jeffhorwitz, @jeffhorwitz, @ttp_updates, and @wsjtech
| Lewis Gordon / The Verge: |
How Saudi Arabia's investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as it aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports — With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the kingdom's insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are already remaking the global video game industry.Sponsor Posts
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