Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...
West Bank residents, who have long complained of missing and outdated data on Google Maps, say the Israel-Hamas war has made the app even worse for navigation
www.wired.com/story/google... Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : A really interesting (and frustrating) story from @peard33.bsky.social about what it's like to use Google Maps in the West Bank www.wired.c...
Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian, who was allegedly dismissed for “serious misconduct”, is a co-author of one of two papers chosen for the NeurIPS Best Paper Award
And then a friend sent me this article. Fitting. — www.wired.com/story/byteda... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler : lol: TikTok intern sabotages colleagues' use of an AI computing cluster at Bytedance...
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business … X: @carnage4life , @carnage4life , @joshuaogundu , @lmatsakis , and @kantrowitz X: Da...
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business … X: @joshuaogundu , @kantrowitz , @lmatsakis , and @kantrowitz X: Josh / @joshuaogundu...
Sources: Sam Altman's exit followed a “misalignment” between OpenAI's profit and nonprofit adherents; some may view the company's development speed as too risky
that AGI could kill all of humanity Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : The Information reports that Ilya told OpenAI employees that “this was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, whic...
Hugging Face confirms “regrettable accessibility issues in China”, after a report says the country fully blocked access to the AI model platform on September 12
https://www.semafor.com/... X: Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : Hugging Face confirmed to me that it's been blocked in China. It will be interesting to see what impact this has on AI development there h...
Hugging Face confirms “regrettable accessibility issues in China”, after a report says the country fully blocked access to the AI model platform on September 12
https://www.semafor.com/... X: Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : Hugging Face confirmed to me that it's been blocked in China. It will be interesting to see what impact this has on AI development there h...
Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took fifth at 40%
https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Mark Coggins / @coggins@mastodon.social : This is the kind of needed AI regulation—requiring model makers to reveal how they trained their language models—that #Ma...
Sources: Elon Musk claimed his new startup xAI was worth $20B while he was trying to recruit top AI talent, including by offering equity in xAI
what could possibly go wrong? Hisan Kidwai / Android Headlines : Elon Musk launches new AI company xAI to understand the universe Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @epro.social : who said you need crypto to...