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Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller than the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4; Orion may not outperform predecessors in tasks like coding — The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring. The rate of improvement …
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Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @chatgpt21, @hyhieu226, @danshipper, @yampeleg, @noahpinion, @amir, @amir, @garymarcus, @bindureddy, @yampeleg, @0xkarmatic, @modestproposal1, and @amir
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/Futurology, and r/singularity
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's future growth may come from several new Watch- or iPad-level businesses; visionOS 2.2's ultrawide Mac display mode is the Vision Pro's first killer app — Apple may never find another product with as much revenue potential as the iPhone, but it can still thrive with several new Apple Watch- or iPad-level businesses.
More: PCMag, Yanko Design, Digital Trends, and MacRumors
| Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive between the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026 and could feature an M5 around when the first Macs get it — In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reported that the 2nd generation of Apple Vision Pro is expected …
More: PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Neowin, and The Mac Observer
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Source: the US ordered TSMC to halt shipments of 7nm or more advanced chips that power AI accelerator and GPUs to Chinese customers starting on November 11 — The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers …
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Forums: r/hardware, r/LocalLLaMA, r/worldnews, r/technology, and r/wallstreetbets
| Zak Killian / HotHardware: |
Intel's Robert Hallock admits “our wounds with Arrow Lake not hitting the performance we projected were self-inflicted” and promises fixes for performance gains — Speaking plainly, Intel's recently-launched Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs, code-named “Arrow Lake” … | Zachary Small / New York Times: |
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M — The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.
More: BBC, Decrypt, ARTnews, Gizmodo, Sotheby's, The Guardian, Boing Boing, TechEBlog, Euronews, IFLScience, Artnet News, Artsy, designboom, Ai-Da, The Art Newspaper, Suggest, Windows Central, The Verge, The Sun, New York Post, Cryptopolitan, VICE, PCMag, The Indian Express, and Al Jazeera
Forums: r/aiwars and r/ArtistHate
| Washington Post: |
Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters — This was the year that artificial intelligence was expected to wreak havoc on elections. For two years, experts from D.C … | Taylor Lorenz / User Mag: |
Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights the shift toward a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum — Over the past several days, Meta's Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.
Threads: @taylorlorenz, @robbiekirshner, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @groguspeaknyc2, @taylorlorenz, and @stuartathompsonnyt
X: @taylorlorenz and @taylorlorenz
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox's 20th birthday, growth due to the EU's DMA, privacy, the Google search deal, AI, and more — Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy …
Mastodon: @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social. LinkedIn: Frederic Lardinois. Forums: r/firefox, r/browsers, and r/pcmasterrace
| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Chegg has lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools — Chegg's stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT — Most companies are starting …
More: Gizmodo. Bluesky: @joshphillips.bsky.social. X: @josourcing, @jasonlk, and @scottlincicome
LinkedIn: Philip Koopman, Bart Epstein, and Mike Grandinetti
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
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San Francisco's next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi's heir with no political experience, wasn't tech leaders' top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them — San Francisco venture capitalists didn't get all the results they'd hoped for in this week's local elections.
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Threads: @heatherknightsf and @jina
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies have created their own internal benchmarks for AI as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on public tests — Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language modelsSponsor Posts
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