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The AI giant plans to buy WordPress and Tumblr data to train ChatGPT. What could go wrong? You probably don’t know about Automattic, but they know you. As the parent company of WordPress, its content management systems host around 43 percent of the internet’s 10 million most popular websites. … http://dlvr.it/T3RP5g

Happy Leap Day! It might be frustrating for some of you to wait an extra day for your paycheck, but there's a legitimate reason we do this every four years. In today's big story, we're looking at how Google has gone from the tech industry's vanguard of cool to just another boring company. What's on … http://dlvr.it/T3RNrP

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out its second major price cut for cloud services in years, aiming to win back users from rivals like Tencent … http://dlvr.it/T3RNbK

After spending years and billions on it, Apple has decided to scrap its self-driving Apple car project. As you can imagine, they did it because they … http://dlvr.it/T3Nknx

Artificial intelligence is likely to replace or at least lend a hand in tasks that take up almost three-quarters of the time bank employees now spend … http://dlvr.it/T3KG52

In today’s column, I am going to examine and explain the brittleness that exists within modern-day generative AI. To exemplify this matter, I will lean into a widespread incident of last week on February 20, 2024, in which the wildly popular generative AI app ChatGPT by AI maker OpenAI spewed … http://dlvr.it/T3FGY1

The new AI image generator's adherence to complex prompts looks ridiculous. Another day, another massive leap forward in AI image generation. With … http://dlvr.it/T3FGM0

Everyone is talking about Nvidia’s jaw-dropping earnings results — up a whopping 265% from a year ago. But don’t sleep on Groq, the Silicon Valley-based company creating new AI chips for large language model (LLM) inference (making decisions or predictions on existing models, as opposed to … http://dlvr.it/T3FGDn

CNN — Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, possibly taking a step back from GM’s earlier commitment to shifting straight to pure … http://dlvr.it/T3FG62

Apple is adding to the iMessage instant messaging service a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol named PQ3, designed to defend encryption from … http://dlvr.it/T3FFx1

Reddit spent the latter half of 2023 considering whether to block the Google and Bing search engines from indexing posts on the site. The decision, … http://dlvr.it/T38VCn

It isn't available to the general public yet. Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, the tool that uses generative AI to create images from text prompts, revealed Stable Diffusion 3, a next-generation model, on Thursday. Stability AI claimed that the new model, which isn’t widely … http://dlvr.it/T38Tr7

Harsh words from one of AI's godfathers. Pixel Imperfect Sora, OpenAI's new AI model for generating video, has become the talk of the town since its … http://dlvr.it/T37TZC

Yesterday, Nvidia reported $22.1 billion in revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of fiscal 2024 (ending January 31, 2024), easily topping Wall Street’s expectations. The revenues grew 265% from a year ago, thanks to the explosive growth of generative AI. That’s not bad for a company that started by … http://dlvr.it/T3735j

China’s tech firms were caught off guard by breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. Beijing’s regulations and a sagging economy aren’t helping. In November, a year after ChatGPT’s release, a relatively unknown Chinese start-up leaped to the top of a leaderboard that judged the abilities … http://dlvr.it/T35YYw

Barely a week after launching the latest iteration of its Gemini models, Google today announced the launch of Gemma, a new family of lightweight open-weight models. Starting with Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, these new models were “inspired by Gemini” and are available for commercial and research … http://dlvr.it/T35Y8N

There's enough natural hydrogen trapped underground to meet all projected demands for hundreds of years. An unpublished report by the US Geological … http://dlvr.it/T35Xw0

Princeton researchers report that a new AI model has solved one of the major roadblocks to generating fusion energy. There are many stumbling blocks on the racetrack to nuclear fusion, the reaction at the core of the sun that combines atoms to make energy: Generating more energy than it takes to … http://dlvr.it/T349dJ

Here’s why AI search is probably not the killer app Silicon Valley thinks it is. You’ve probably already noticed your search engines are starting to evolve. Google and Bing have already added both AI-generated results and conversational chatbots to their respective search engines. The Browser … http://dlvr.it/T33Mn4

Opportunities in revolutionizing artificial intelligence treatment. Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare: an advancement that is here with no … http://dlvr.it/T2zCVK

ChatGPT is stagnating. The megahit chatbot from OpenAI has seen declining web traffic in five of the past eight months and is currently down 11% from … http://dlvr.it/T2zCHP

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support. After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a … http://dlvr.it/T2zC70

The new system, called Sora, takes a written prompt and renders a richly detailed video through artificial intelligence. OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, said a group of researchers will identify ways the program could be misused. Photo: OpenAI http://dlvr.it/T2zBxZ

Some believe this new technology will threaten their careers. In the last year, OpenAI has led the charge of the AI boom, introducing large language … http://dlvr.it/T2zBj9

Comfort, headache, and eye strain are among the top reasons people say they’re returning their Vision Pro headsets. For some Apple Vision Pro buyers, the honeymoon is already over. It’s no coincidence that there’s been an uptick on social media of Vision Pro owners saying they’re returning their … http://dlvr.it/T2mkYy

In a recent interview Sam Altman emphasized the significance of ChatGPT-5 and its intelligence improvements, suggesting that even a 10% increase in … http://dlvr.it/T2lNlm

"I know I am lying to myself." There's an episode of the show "Black Mirror" where a woman, trapped by grief, starts a relationship with an AI trained … http://dlvr.it/T2fwp5

The direct-to-consumer boom is coming to an end. A once-bustling group of companies, backed by billions in venture capital funding, saw a record year … http://dlvr.it/T2cLqP

The German automaker Bosch announced its plan to launch its first hydrogen engine for trucks and construction equipment in 2024, which will be part of … http://dlvr.it/T2bbHG

The milestone number comes after years of Google’s push to get Gmail, Drive, and Photos users to pay up. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One, its all-in-one subscription service that opens up additional storage for free … http://dlvr.it/T2bMB6

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In a bid to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), researchers from Google Deepmind and University of Southern California have proposed a new ‘self-discover’ prompting framework. Published on arXiV and Hugging Face this morning, the approach goes beyond existing … http://dlvr.it/T2b0CW

The Chinese Volt Typhoon cyber-espionage group infiltrated a critical infrastructure network in the United States and remained undetected for at … http://dlvr.it/T2VfRC

We’re one step further down the path to limitless clean power. Although still a far-future technology, nuclear fusion is really hot right now, both literally and figuratively. Squishing together two light nuclei requires immensely hot temperatures (like, 100 million°C hot), and the fusion industry is … http://dlvr.it/T2V7Jn

Research suggests that reading on screens is a less effective way to absorb and retain information than reading the old-fashioned way, but why? And … http://dlvr.it/T2QHPh

Tech industry leaders are gearing up for a potential rebound in 2024, according to Deloitte‘s latest report. The 2024 Technology Industry Outlook, which included a survey of more than 100 tech executives, indicates that despite challenges over the past two years, there are optimistic signs of … http://dlvr.it/T2MYSm

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. surged over 17% in late trading today after the big-data analytics company beat revenue expectations in its most … http://dlvr.it/T2MY6R

Google may be scrapping Bard as the brand for its conversational AI tools this week as it begins rolling out its Gemini artificial intelligence model … http://dlvr.it/T2LCjs

Technology has supercharged the country’s surveillance capabilities. But its spying prowess depends on more old-fashioned tools. Over the past decade, … http://dlvr.it/T2Jrdl

Elon Musk is no stranger to bold claims - from his plans to colonise Mars to his dreams of building transport links underneath our biggest cities. This week the world's richest man said his Neuralink division had successfully implanted its first wireless brain chip into a human. Is he right when he … http://dlvr.it/T2HXRR

Viewers of the popular 60 Minutes television magazine may have been surprised to see a feature in December on the state of quantum computing, typically an unapproachable, wonky topic for mainstream audiences. But, given the hype and ensuing adoption level with all things AI, perhaps this is a sign … http://dlvr.it/T2HXGQ

A dispatch from the gypsum dunes of cyberspace “I am crying,” my editor said when I connected with her via FaceTime on my Apple Vision Pro. “You look like a computer man.” What made her choke with laughter was my “persona,” the digital avatar that the device had generated when I had pointed its … http://dlvr.it/T2HX6F

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week, Amazon announced Rufus, an AI-powered … http://dlvr.it/T2Gp68

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Tesla has issued a recall for almost every car it sold in the U.S. because of illegible warning lights. The massive recall affects more than 2 … http://dlvr.it/T2F4GF

Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s groundbreaking launch in spatial computing, ushers new realities into the world as it becomes available for purchase in the US today (2 February 2024). Imagine turning your living room into a movie theatre that happens to be set within the mountains of Yosemite. What feels … http://dlvr.it/T2F458

Microsoft’s LASER method seems counterintuitive, but it makes models trained on large amounts of data smaller and more accurate. During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank … http://dlvr.it/T2CNMv

There’s been a lot of mystery surrounding the Apple Vision Pro since the unveil and there are two questions people have been asking. One: why are … http://dlvr.it/T2Bhdw

"It would have been nice to get a call from Elon Musk. But I guess workers are just disposable to them." Expendable Employees SpaceX is being sued for … http://dlvr.it/T2BS2K

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a non-profit research institute founded in 2014 by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, announced today that it has introduced the open source OLMo, which it calls the “first truly open LLM and framework,” creating an “alternative to current models that are … http://dlvr.it/T2BRrX