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Google's Gemini video demo of its multimodal capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts — The tech giant's latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that's been out for eight months.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users say Google's Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks — This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and UK governments jointly accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a wide-ranging, global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in British elections — The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
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| Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
A researcher says a years-old Bluetooth authentication flaw lets attackers inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands on Apple, Android, and some Linux devices — Issue has been around since at least 2012 — A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: In a first, Apple is working with China's BYD to move new product development for an iPad to Vietnam, with test production to begin around early 2024 — China's BYD helps American giant with shift to alternative tech hubs — Vietnam is emerging as an increasingly important production hub … | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tata plans to build one of India's largest iPhone plants employing 50,000 workers within two years, and expects operations to begin in 12-18 months — - New plant would speed up Apple's diversification beyond China — Tata wants more Apple business after buying one iPhone factory| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify says CFO Paul Vogel plans to leave on March 31, 2024, and launches a search for a successor; Daniel Ek wants a CFO “with a different mix of experiences” — Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will leave the company next year and that it has launched a search to find a replacement.| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Gene Levoff, the ex-Apple lawyer who pled guilty to insider trading from 2011 to 2016, to four years of probation; Apple fired him in 2018 — - Gene Levoff was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday — Judge said the Stanford Law graduate already lost his career| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers find adding pleas to a prompt that tell its Claude 2 model not to be biased could reduce discrimination based on race, gender, and more — The problem of alignment is an important one when you're setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health.
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| Financial Times: |
Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 plans to cut ties with Chinese hardware suppliers in favor of US counterparts, saying “we cannot work with both sides” — Abu Dhabi-backed G42 says it ‘cannot work with both sides’ and retain access to American-made AI chips| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
X rolls out xAI's snarky, anti-woke chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users; X CEO Linda Yaccarino describes Grok as “the ultimate ride or die” — Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday. — Elon Musk's snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at the technical issues Meta faced as it developed E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features — Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla's Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla in November; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo — Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Alibaba's decline since China halted Ant's IPO in 2020, losing its online shopping dominance to rival PDD last week, and roadblocks in revival plans — The Chinese e-commerce giant lost its lead—even in online shopping — SINGAPORE—Chinese internet titan Alibaba Group Holding once seemed invincible.
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| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
Blackstone and Digital Realty launch a joint venture to spend $7B developing 10 data centers across four campuses in Frankfurt, Paris, and Northern Virginia — Venture will target providers of online content, cloud services and AI — Investment giant Blackstone and Digital Realty …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out tags on Threads, offering support for multiple words and spaces, and no # symbol; posts can only have one tag and the tag view is the search view — Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the “goal in firing Sam [Altman] was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to say why she and others voted to fire him — In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI's power struggle
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Montenegro Justice Minister Andrej Milovic has privately said he plans to extradite Do Kwon to the US rather than South Korea to face criminal charges — Alexander Osipovich and Marko Vešović — Montenegro's top justice official has privately said he plans … Sponsor Posts
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