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| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching — Important new study from Apple — A superb new article on LLMs from six AI researchers at Apple who were brave enough …
More: arXiv, AppleInsider, The Decoder, Business Today, International Business Times, and TechCrunch
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent” — The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues …
More: WordPress News, The Verge, and Pixel Envy
| Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus: |
Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess — Hi everyone! Mathew Ingram here. This is The Torment Nexus (you can find out more about me and this newsletter — and why I chose to call it that — in my inaugural post.)
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Meta's Yann LeCun, who says today's AI models aren't intelligent and warnings about AI's existential peril are “complete B.S.” — Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology's existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’
More: TechCrunch, AIM, and Cafe Hayek
Threads: @yannlecun. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Rahul Chadha and Hilal Lashuel
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account — Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it!
More: Mashable, Android Central, and The Mirror
Threads: @meta, @mike_isaac, @katienotopoulos, @stevenpbrumby, @joannastern, @girlinwhiteglasses, @ukcameraman, @avbelow, @joannastern, @nickdraeger, @andrewpardoe, @yeeahspencer, and @derjarjour. X: @tomwarren
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds an option in iOS 18.1 to let users set a “Primary” email address in Settings, letting users change the email associated with their Apple Account — In iOS 18.1, there is a new option to set a “Primary” email address in the Settings app, which means it is easier to change …
More: 9to5Mac, Thurrott, PCMag, PhoneArena, Neowin, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, NewsBytes, and Tabletmonkeys
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself — The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
More: NBC News, Axios, Digby's Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Scientific American, emptywheel, Columbia Journalism Review, Associated Press, The Guardian, Adweek, CBS News, and CNN
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LinkedIn: Cristina Tardáguila, Tina D Purnat, Rob Karpati, and Eric Deggans
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| Dario Amodei: |
An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more — How AI Could Transform the World for the Better — I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.
More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Decoder, Marginal REVOLUTION, and The Verge
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LinkedIn: Jenny Nicholson, Liza Tobin, Annisa Firdaus, and Sarah Guo
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, and r/slatestarcodex
| John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: |
Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more — Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics …
X: @theomitsa, @quantamagazine, @epfl_en, and @abatanasov
| Washington Post: |
Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack down on illicit use of Starlink terminals by Russia to power its advance in Ukraine — Ukraine's outgunned and outmanned army had one major advantage over its enemy: internet through Starlink terminals. Now the Russians have it, too.| Rozanna Latiff / Reuters: |
TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation — Social media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a large number of staff in Malaysia …
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay — One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …
More: Business Insider, New York Post, landing.podtrac.com, Benzinga, and FlowingData
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @obrien_kat@mastodon.world, @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, and @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social
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Forums: r/uber, r/newyorkcity, and r/nyc
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