A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more
Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …
Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like “a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it”
“A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it,” reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue
President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …
Sources: OpenAI has talked to chip designers including Broadcom about developing an AI server chip and hired former members of a Google unit that produces TPUs
looks like the real Oracle is in Congress! @modestproposal1 : It's a good article from @theinformation on Altman wanting to set up companies to design and purchase huge amounts of ...
A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users
Threads is a place for everyone. No following required. Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : The lack of “content creators” and “influencers” on Threads is probably one of its bi...
Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the “Metaverse” product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called “Wearables”
wearables experts have said for years that a key to making an on-face wearable a success is making it as light/comfortable/useful as... well... a pair of glasses. Alex Heath / @ale...
A look at Apple's technical approach to AI, including core model performance, alignment strategies, and adapter and on-device strategy
Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models “thinking different.”
Sources: Apple isn't paying OpenAI to add ChatGPT into its OSes and aims to eventually make money from AI by striking revenue-sharing deals with chatbot makers
- The iPhone maker isn't paying OpenAI to use the chatbot — Apple announced OpenAI agreement as part of AI push this week
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X
But It Does Have Privacy Issues Emergent Behavior : 2024-05-29: Memorial Day Shenanigans Siddharth Jindal / AIM : Yann LeCun Delays Elon Musk's AGI Plans James Farrell / SiliconANG...
Sources: Microsoft is training MAI-1, a new, in-house AI model with ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
At around 11pm last night my partner went to change our lounge room lights with our home light control system.
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
At around 11pm last night my partner went to change our lounge room lights with our home light control system.
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing
- The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google — Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100s for Reels' launch, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more
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Sources: Amazon's AGI team is aiming to outperform Anthropic's latest Claude models by the middle of 2024 using the company's forthcoming LLM, codenamed Olympus
This week, Amazon completed the second phase of a deal announced last September, when it committed to investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic.
Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral AI and plans to help bring the French startup's AI models to market, as regulators probe Microsoft's OpenAI alliance
Extremely excited to see Mistral AI and Microsoft expanding the strategic partnership with focus on three areas: … Florian Follonier, PhD : Excited to share news of a new partnersh...
Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation
- Partnership amounts to €15 million investment, Microsoft says — EU analysis could lead to future formal investigation
iOS 17.4 code shows that Apple may be testing two versions of its Ajax LLM for Siri and Messages, comparing their responses to results from OpenAI's ChatGPT
New emoji, EU App Store changes, unreleased devices, and more! Alan Martin / Tom's Guide : Apple testing souped-up Siri with help from ChatGPT Amber Neely / AppleInsider : iOS 17.4...
Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, three days after its Android launch
Screenshots — Improve Your Productivity with Copilot-Your AI-Powered Chat Assistant Thurrott : Microsoft Copilot Comes to iPhone and iPad Emily Price / PCMag : Microsoft's Copilo...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”
The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …