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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's hubris that doomed the electric car project, spring hardware updates without a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans — Apple's belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project.
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Legal experts say Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI is a stretch because handshakes and expectations are hard to enforce, but it does make a strong policy argument — The Elon Musk lawsuit filed yesterday in California against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman left legal experts scrambling to analyze the bombshell claims.
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| New York Times: |
Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI — In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up's closest partner.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers create an AI worm that can spread between generative AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or spread malware — Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents …
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| Marah Eakin / Wired: |
A profile of Lanny Smoot, Disney's only research fellow, who holds 100+ patents and has built an omnidirectional HoloTile Floor to allow users to walk in VR — If you've ever seen a lightsaber at a Disney park or marveled at BB-8, you've seen Lanny Smoot's work.| Alice Robb / The Guardian: |
Some users turn to AI therapist chatbots, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about a lack of emotional connection — It's cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips — More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break.| The Economic Times: |
Indian watchdog MeitY issues an advisory asking developers to seek “explicit permission” before deploying any AI models or AI-backed algorithms — In its advisory sent late on Friday, the IT ministry has also said that such platforms will have to explicitly seek permission …
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| Gareth Harris / Financial Times: |
How AI is being used to evaluate the authenticity of paintings, amid conservators' concerns of whether the tech can account for wear, damage, and other factors — Machine learning can be the difference between a charming picture and a masterpiece worth millions| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
AMD is unable to release an open-source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 — One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality …
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| Jatin Grover / FE Tech Bytes: |
India's communications and IT minister says delisting of popular Play Store apps “cannot be permitted”; Google reinstates some apps without IAPs — Sources said reinstating some of the apps was not linked to the government's position but with the concerned apps complying with the Play Store Billing policies.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year — Old code piles up and raises the risk of hacks and other breaches, even on new devices. Our compounding ‘technical debt’
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