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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
| 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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| 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
More: Harper's. X: @tabby_kinder, @cordeliaj, @matthewbennett, and @spidermaani. LinkedIn: Michael K.
| 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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| 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’
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Galaxy Digital, and others invest $75M in crypto fund 1kx, which has raised ~$200M since 2018 and invested in Rarible and more — - 1kx is targeting areas including crypto consumer applications — VC funding has been slower to recover than crypto prices| 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Coro, which offers SMB cybersecurity tools, raised a $100M Series D led by One Peak, sources say at a $750M post-money valuation, to expand in Europe — Enterprises and other large organizations have long been a lucrative and obvious target for cybercriminals, but in recent years …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at an Indian court case over Byju Raveendran's control of Byju's, as investors, who voted to remove Raveendran last month, brace for a protracted battle — Once country's most valuable start-up, Byju's is beset with allegations of mismanagement and governance failings| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China — Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir, is organizing a conference for tech leaders and Washington lawmakers on May 1.Jason Andrew for The New York Times| 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 …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Mandiant: Yevgeny Prigozhin-linked online influence operations are active months after his death in August 2023, and underwent subtle shifts in their targeting — Online influence campaigns have remained active since the Wagner Group leader's death in a plane crash, Google says| 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 … | 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/netsec, and r/cybersecurity
| 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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