Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data
OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion Bluesky: @allytibbitt.me , @tomashirstecon , @columnist , @madamehardy , @dawnnafus , @seed-corn-...
The FDA approves the Hearing Aid Feature in Apple's AirPods Pro 2, calling it the “first over-the-counter hearing aid software device”
https://www.fda.gov/... Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jbigham@hci.social : super exciting — AirPods granted FDA approval to serve as hearing aids ... first over the counter hearing aid, enabled by a software u...
Apple unveils Apple Intelligence for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, with text and image generation across apps, cross-app task orchestration, App Intents, and more
Apple soon will be taking a huge bite … Aman Gupta / Livemint : Is Apple Intelligence coming to your iPhone, iPad or Mac? Check full list of compatible devices Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : There's an ...
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada must give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airline's chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support — https://arstechnica.com/... Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jbigham@hci.social : open season on “redteaming” these annoying company chatbo...
Algorithmic audits alone won't provide the accountability needed for AI systems because they lack the necessary market incentives and real government oversight
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