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Sources: Apple is winding down Project Titan, its decade-long effort to make an electric car; Apple plans to move some impacted staff to generative AI projects — - Executives tell staff to end work on endeavor known as Titan — Employees on some car teams will move to Apple's AI division
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Memo: Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Gemini's problematic responses around race “completely unacceptable” and vows to make structural changes to fix the problem — Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company's Gemini controversy Tuesday evening, calling the AI app's problematic …
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Internal docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Filing: Nintendo sues the makers of Switch emulator Yuzu in US federal court, alleging it is designed to circumvent Nintendo's encryption and facilitates piracy — If you've ever seen a Steam Deck playing a Legend of Zelda game, chances are you were seeing the Yuzu emulator at work.| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung launches 36Gb 12Hi HBM3E DRAM for AI, slated for mass production in H1 2024, with 50%+ more peak bandwidth and capacity compared to its previous HBM gen — Samsung announced late on Monday the completion of the development of its 12-Hi 36 GB HBM3E memory stacks …
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Klarna claims its ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot handles two-thirds of all customer service chats and does the equivalent work of 700 full-time human agents — Klarna is bullish on bots. — One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now …
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| Mark Stenberg / Adweek: |
Docs: Google is paying a handful of independent publishers a five-figure sum for one year to use an unreleased suite of generative AI tools to post stories — In exchange for a five-figure sum, publishers must use the tool to publish 3 stories per day — Google launched a private program … | Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police: |
Google appears to globally roll out “glanceable directions while navigating” on Maps, which shows real-time ETA and turn-by-turn directions on the lock screen — The changes are rolling out across devices and regions — Glanceable directions feature on Google Maps provides real …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sony says its PlayStation layoffs will also impact game makers Insomniac, Naughty Dog, and Guerrilla, three of its most successful subsidiaries — The company is also canceling a game based on the Twisted Metal racing franchise — Sony Group Corp. will lay off 900 people across …
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A review of Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, Llama 2, and Mixtral found the models often gave inaccurate or misleading election information; GPT-4 was least inaccurate — Experts testing five leading AI models found the answers were often inaccurate, misleading, and even downright harmful
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
TikTok removes all songs published by Universal Music Publishing Group, expanding a licensing spat; at first only songs owned or distributed by UMG were removed — The bruising battle over royalties between Universal Music Group and TikTok entered a new and more severe stage in the early hours … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: OpenAI asks a US federal judge to dismiss parts of NYT's copyright suit, alleging it “paid someone to hack OpenAI's products” and violated OpenAI's TOS — OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times (NYT.N) copyright lawsuit against it … | Byron Tau / Wired: |
A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people — Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.”| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Applied Materials discloses “multiple subpoenas” as recently as February from US agencies, including the SEC, about the company's Chinese business — - The inquiries underscore Washington's efforts to curb chips — Chip gear makers are riding surging demand from China| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with LG executives in South Korea to discuss a stronger partnership on XR devices as well as a potential collaboration in AI — Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived in South Korea late on Tuesday, where he is expected to hold talks on artificial intelligence …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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