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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Ars OpenForum
| 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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X: @aiatmeta, @tonymongkolsmai, @mlcommons, @nvidiadc, @mlcommons, @typewriters, and @intel
| 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 …
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Forums: r/Games, r/gaming, r/PS5, and r/XboxSeriesX
| CNBC: |
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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LinkedIn: Raejeanne Skillern, Emil Protalinski, Swami Sivasubramanian, Adam Selipsky, Michael Broderick, and Hayden Field
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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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| Open Web Advocacy: |
How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy — In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy.
| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 — Silicon Valley has found a lucrative trade selling AI-powered weapons — and Palmer Luckey is leading the way| 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 …
More: The Verge, VideoCardz.com, Neowin, TweakTown, IGN, Windows Central, Press Start, Kotaku Australia, Wccftech, Game Rant, XboxEra, GamingBolt, and Pure Xbox
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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 … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
The US OMB releases new guidance on AI, requiring all federal agencies to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use and submit an annual AI report — All US federal agencies will now be required to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use, as the government wants … | Financial Times: |
Trump Media & Technology Group closed up 14% at $66.22 on March 27, for a $13.5B market cap, as small investors boost the stock; Trump's stake is worth ~$5.3B — Heavy trading in company behind Truth Social fuels talk of a new cycle of ‘meme stock mania’
More: Barron's Online, Associated Press, and New York Times
| Fortune: |
A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and then fell apart — In December 2022, someone was looking for Emad Mostaque. The founder and CEO of Stability AI, one of the hottest startups … | 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 …
More: VentureBeat, Tech Funding News, Snowflake, Blocks and Files, SiliconANGLE, PR Newswire, and FinSMEs
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
NYC-based Hume, which offers a conversational AI that, Hume says, 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.
More: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE, Maginative, and Analytics India Magazine
Threads: @paul_rietschka. X: @rauchg, @hume_ai, @apoorva_mehta, @hume_ai, @nikitabier, @andrewcurran_, @alancowen, @vhmth, @hume_ai, @ambermac, @scobleizer, and @danshipper. LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
Google blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B ads and 6.7M advertiser accounts 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| 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.
More: FinSMEs and NewRetirement
| 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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