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A look at how Apple's hubris doomed its electric car project, its spring hardware updates that won't have a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans — Apple's belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project.| Alice Robb / The Guardian: |
Some users turn to AI chatbot therapists, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about the lack of a human connection — It's cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?| New York Times: |
Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI — In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up's closest partner.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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A profile of Lanny Smoot, Disney's first and only research fellow who holds 100+ patents and has built an omnidirectional HoloTile Floor to let users walk in VR — If you've ever seen a lightsaber at a Disney park or marveled at BB-8, you've seen Lanny Smoot's work.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers create a generative AI worm that can spread between AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or deploy malware — Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents … | Reece Rogers / Wired: |
As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips — More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break.| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Microsoft Office assistant Clippy, which was seen as a corporate gaffe but has remained one of Microsoft's most recognizable brands over two decades — The virtual assistant, an animated paper clip, was seen as an epic corporate gaffe. Now it's having a moment.| The Economic Times: |
Indian watchdog MeitY issues an advisory asking developers to seek “explicit permission” before deploying any AI models or AI-backed algorithms — In its advisory sent late on Friday, the IT ministry has also said that such platforms will have to explicitly seek permission … | Wall Street Journal: |
Last week a US judge acquitted China's Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit in the DOJ's Micron trade secrets case, months after Micron changed its posture on China — Verdict is regarded as a setback in efforts to contain Chinese corporate theft — U.S. officials across the political spectrum … | Gareth Harris / Financial Times: |
How AI is being used to evaluate the authenticity of paintings, amid conservators' concerns of whether the tech can account for wear, damage, and other factors — Machine learning can be the difference between a charming picture and a masterpiece worth millions| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
AMD is unable to release an open-source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 — One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
California's regulator approves Waymo's proposal to expand its fared driverless robotaxi services to parts of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Peninsula, and more — Waymo received approval Friday afternoon from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a commercial robotaxi service …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Meet Zoho Social MCP: Your AI assistant can now help run social media — Social media management has come a long way from simply publishing posts.Today, marketers are expected to create content …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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