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Sources: OpenAI developed a watermarking method for detecting text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but its launch has been mired in internal debates — Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years
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| Nicholas Carlini: |
A Google DeepMind research scientist details some LLM use cases and argues LLMs are not overhyped and should be judged on what they can do, not what they can't — Background on me — How I use AI — I don't think that “AI” models [a] — (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. Threads: @tedunderwoodillinois and @sung.kim.mw
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on new Apple Intelligence features, which do not yet live up to the excitement, Apple's design team leadership reshuffle, and Apple's Q3 earnings — The first preview of Apple Intelligence for developers shows just how far the company has to go to live up to the hype.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous vehicles and some Chinese wireless communications hardware in US cars — The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks … | Zach Dorfman / Politico: |
A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc — During the early days of Silicon Valley, a tech industry entrepreneur teamed up with the FBI to ship faulty devices to Moscow.
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Despite a weak earnings report, corporations are still buying from Intel, which continues to dominate market share for non-AI computing workloads on servers — Intel remains a go-to for enterprise purchasers of PCs and laptops—even as CIOs say they're watching the company stumble
More: The Irish Times and TechSpot
| Rishav Chatterjee / Reuters: |
Mynt, the parent company of Philippines-based e-wallet GCash, more than doubled its valuation to $5B after investments from Ayala and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial — Mynt, which operates the Philippine e-wallet brand and IPO-hopeful GCash, has more than doubled its valuation to $5 billion following investments …
More: PYMNTS.com, Crowdfund Insider, and Bloomberg
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An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some military-tied Chinese organizations have bought restricted chips — The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military. The private sector is fighting back.| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
A look at the flurry of so-called Zoom rallies supporting the campaign to elect Kamala Harris; one Zoom call reportedly attracted 190K people and raised $4M — Online rallies give the vice president a platform her opponent can't match. — Advancements in technology can play a defining role in how an election cycle plays out.
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Sources: Nvidia told Microsoft and another large cloud provider that its new Blackwell AI chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws — Nvidia's upcoming artificial intelligence chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws, a snafu that could affect customers …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/AMD_Technology_Bets, and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes — Technology stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in their investments in artificial intelligence
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources: JD.com founder and chair Richard Liu has been quietly leading the company from overseas, primarily in London, despite stepping down as the CEO in 2022 — Despite stepping down as chief in 2022, Richard Liu has continued to quietly steer the business from LondonSponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
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The quiet power of email marketing to maximize impact for nonprofits — A life changed. A problem solved. A community strengthened. A future made a little better than it was yesterday.For nonprofits, that's the metric.
The quiet power of email marketing to maximize impact for nonprofits — A life changed. A problem solved. A community strengthened. A future made a little better than it was yesterday.For nonprofits, that's the metric.
IDrive:
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.
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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WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
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