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Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of its planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after investing $1.25B in September 2023 — Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race.
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| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top — Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we're firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it's time to add two such behemoths …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations — Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. — On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, posts calling trans and gender nonconforming people “satanic”, and more — GLAAD catalogued dozens of instances of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada — Google is introducing a handful of updates that aim to take some of the stress out of planning trips and outings …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Affinity and Canva publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's design software “fair, transparent, and affordable”, including its “perpetual licenses” — After Canva's acquisition of Affinity design software sparked concern regarding the future …
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 — A new Homeworld game is also in development. — Embracer Group has officially divested Gearbox Entertainment … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital — When entrepreneur Stephen Chen's mom began approaching retirement age, she was forced to borrow money from Chen — and Chen's brother — to make ends meet.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation — Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations, making it challenging …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated — Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they're vulnerable …
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| Reuters: |
A US judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, but dismisses one claim that Coinbase acted as an unregistered broker via Coinbase Wallet — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday said the U.S. securities regulator's lawsuit against Coinbase (COIN.O) can move forward …
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/ethtrader
| Clara Murray / Financial Times: |
Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal — CEO Sam Altman wants customised chatbots to supercharge its business but data suggests ‘GPTs’ have limited appeal
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| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B and 6.7M respectively in 2022 — The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled compared to the previous year. — Chat with SearchBot
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| Álvaro / eXputer: |
Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X console, which Microsoft plans to release in 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X — This in continuation of eXputer's previous report back in February. … Back in February, I reported that Microsoft has plans …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Poland's consumer watchdog fines Amazon ~$8M for allegedly misleading consumers, including with dark pattern design tricks, ending a probe opened in Feb. 2023 — Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
At Intel's AI Summit in Taipei, executives say Copilot will soon run locally on PCs and that there will be a 40 TOPS requirement for NPUs on next-gen AI PCs — Let the TOPS wars begin. — We've previously reported on industry rumors that Microsoft's Copilot AI service will soon run locally … | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation — Hume has raised $50 million in funding at a $219 million valuation to build “empathic” conversational AI. — Alan Cowen feigns a dejected expression.
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| Colleen McClain / Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 43% of those aged 18-29 used ChatGPT in February 2024, up from 33% in July 2023, compared to 27% of 30-49 and 23% of all adults — It's been more than a year since ChatGPT's public debut set the tech world abuzz. And Americans' use of the chatbot is ticking up …
More: Business Insider, Fast Company, PCMag, and Inc.com
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Databricks' new open-source model DBRX, an LLM that cost ~$10M to train over several months and, Databricks says, outshines Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok — Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta's Llama 2.
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LinkedIn: Sakshi Gupta, Lindsay L., Prerna Sharma, Ari Kaplan, and Joshua Hartman. Forums: Hacker News
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Celestial AI, which develops optical tech for linking together processors and memory modules, raised a $175M Series C led by US Innovative Technology Fund — Celestial AI Inc., a startup that develops optical technology for linking together processors and memory modules, has secured $175 million in Series C funding.
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