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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says poor image tuning and Gemini becoming more cautious than intended made the model “overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others” — Google announced yesterday that it disabled image generation of people in Gemini following criticism about its historical accuracy.
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Nvidia crossed a $2T market cap intraday on February 23, after adding $277B to its market value on February 22, Wall Street's largest one-day gain on record — Nvidia (NVDA.O) hit $2 trillion in market value on Friday, riding on an insatiable demand for its chips that made the Silicon Valley firm …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about plans for a new type of data center dubbed an “AI factory”, foundational robotics, the Mellanox acquisition, and more — Tech companies can't get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes the mind of its CEO, Jensen Huang.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing $100M, Microsoft is investing $95M, and Nvidia $50M in humanoid robot startup Figure's ~$675M funding round at a ~$2B valuation — - Figure AI also gets investments from Intel, Samsung and Amazon — Company, valued at roughly $2 billion, is raising $675 million
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
X starts rolling out audio and video calling to all users, after previously limiting the feature to Premium subscribers; users can disable calling in settings — The social platform X introduced a new feature last year that lets users make and receive audio and video calls, just like apps such as FaceTime and WhatsApp.
More: Social Media Today and New York Times
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sparred with a trans Tumblr user over an account ban, revealing her side blog names, which are private, sparking community outcry — Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Tumblr owner Automattic, is supposed to be on sabbatical. Instead, he's arguing with Tumblr users …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Puck: |
A look at Marc Andreessen and a16z's political efforts, including starting the Keep Startups in America PAC and giving millions to a pro-crypto dark money group — Late last month, Marc Andreessen was holding court in the Waldorf, the site of the former Trump hotel in downtown D.C. …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for “priority access” customers from March to “mid-April”, with the remaining preorders arriving “shortly after” — Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups … | Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
New York City-based Fabric, which uses AI to automate clinical and administrative work in health care, raised a $60M Series A led by General Catalyst — Have worrying symptoms? Ask the AI. — Fabric Labs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate clinical …
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| Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: |
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users” — The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won't help publishers sleep any easier.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Three years after Spotify's original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature — I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do this again. Last year, it seemed like there was no reason to believe Spotify would ever roll … | The Information: |
Sources: some US lawmakers are pushing for an import ban on goods sold on Temu, saying the company hasn't done enough to stop suppliers from using forced labor — A number of U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a ban on imports of goods sold on Temu, the fast-growing shopping site known …
More: The Verge
| Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: |
In a first, the UK ICO orders the leisure center operator Serco to stop using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning to monitor attendance and pay workers — UK watchdog cracks down for first time on an employer processing biometric data of workers — Outsourcer Serco has been ordered …
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| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases PyRIT, a tool that the company's AI Red Team has been using to more efficiently check for risks in its generative AI systems, such as Copilot — Despite the advanced capabilities of generative AI (gen AI) models, we have seen many instances of them going rogue, hallucinating …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company's Arc launches a “pinch-to-summarize” AI feature in its Arc Search app that puts a webpage's main points into a neatly formatted summary — The Browser company's Arc, a browser focused on a less cluttered web experience, launched a new feature …
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| Ismail Shakil / Reuters: |
The US FTC says Avast needs to pay $16.5M and stop selling web browsing data for ads to settle charges that the UK company misrepresented its use of such data — Software provider Avast Plc will need to pay $16.5 million and stop selling any web browsing data for advertising purposes …
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| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
In a hearing today, Mark Zuckerberg sought to avoid being held personally liable in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta of addicting children to its products — - Meta CEO has been personally sued in two dozen cases across US — He argues he can't be held liable just because he's the boss
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