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GPT-5 SOON!! #ai #newsonleo #technology
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Yes. But Altman is quickly becoming public enemy #1 in the tech world. I will not support that at all.
Have to feed the other systems.
100%. I strongly dislike openai too. I will still use the most powerful model available to build here though
AI News Roundup: GPT-5, Meta AI, and More
OpenAI's Next Frontier Model: GPT-5
OpenAI is gearing up to release its next frontier model, unofficially dubbed "GPT-5," later this year. According to the CEO of OpenAI Japan, this model's effective computational load is expected to be 100 times greater than GPT-4. The new model will likely utilize OpenAI's "Strawberry QAR" technology for training, which creates synthetic data to enhance the model's capabilities.
Elon Musk's XAI Builds Massive AI Training Cluster
XAI, Elon Musk's AI company, has brought online a 100,000 H100 GPU training cluster named "Colossus." This system, claimed to be the most powerful AI training system in the world, was built in just 122 days. Plans are already in place to double its size to 200,000 H100 GPUs in the coming months, further cementing XAI's position in the AI hardware race.
Project Sid: 1,000 Autonomous AI Agents in Minecraft
Researchers have introduced Project Sid, a simulation of 1,000 truly autonomous AI agents collaborating in the virtual world of Minecraft. These agents demonstrate emergent behaviors, including forming economies, cultures, religions, and governments. The project aims to explore whether AI can cooperate at a scale similar to human societies.
Meta AI Assistant Reaches 400 Million Users
Meta's AI assistant has rapidly gained popularity, reaching 400 million monthly users and 40 million daily users by early August. This growth is largely attributed to Meta's ability to integrate the assistant across its platforms, including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook.
OpenAI's Valuation Soars to $100 Billion
OpenAI is in talks to raise funding that would value the company at more than $100 billion. This represents a significant increase from its previous valuation of $29 billion just a year ago. Apple and Nvidia are rumored to be potential investors in this round, joining existing backers like Microsoft and Thrive Capital.
US Government Collaborates with OpenAI and Anthropic on AI Safety
The U.S. government has announced formal collaborations with OpenAI and Anthropic for AI safety research, testing, and evaluation. This agreement will give the AI Safety Institute (AISI) access to major new models from both companies prior to their public release, including potential early access to GPT-5.
MidJourney Ventures into Hardware
AI image generation company MidJourney has announced its entry into the hardware space. While details are scarce, the company has been hiring hardware engineers, including a former Apple Vision Pro engineer, suggesting a potential focus on AR/VR or AI-enhanced imaging devices.
AI-to-AI Crypto Transactions Emerge
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reported the first instance of AI-to-AI cryptocurrency transactions. This development allows AI agents to use crypto wallets to transact with humans, merchants, and other AIs, potentially opening up new possibilities for AI autonomy and resource acquisition.
Alexa to be Powered by Claude AI
According to Reuters, Amazon plans to integrate Claude AI, developed by Anthropic, into its Alexa voice assistant. This upgrade, expected around October, aims to significantly enhance Alexa's conversational abilities and overall functionality.
These developments highlight the rapid pace of innovation in AI, from advances in large language models to new applications in autonomous agents and voice assistants. As AI continues to evolve, we can expect to see more integration into everyday technologies and potentially transformative impacts across various industries.
Amazon's LEAKED Conversation Reveals Stunning Truth About The Future Of Software Engineering #ai #technology #newsonleo
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AI's Growing Impact on Software Development: Industry Leaders Weigh In
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance at a rapid pace, its potential impact on various industries, particularly software development, has become a topic of intense discussion. Recently, several tech industry leaders have shared their thoughts on how AI might reshape the landscape of software development in the coming years.
Amazon's Perspective: Shifting Focus from Coding to Innovation
Matt Garman, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO, made headlines with his comments during an internal fireside chat in June. According to a leaked recording, Garman suggested that within 24 months, it's possible that "most developers are not coding." He emphasized that coding is merely the language used to communicate with computers, not the core skill itself.
Garman believes the fundamental skill for developers will shift towards innovation and understanding customer needs. He stated, "The job of software developer will change... each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we're trying to build."
However, Garman's tone was not alarmist. He presented this potential shift as an opportunity for growth, mentioning that AWS is helping employees upskill and learn about new technologies to increase productivity with AI assistance.
Microsoft's Vision: Democratizing Programming
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, offers a perspective that aligns with but also expands upon Garman's view. Nadella suggests that the traditional emphasis on learning computer science and programming might be giving way to a new paradigm.
"It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program," Nadella stated. He envisions a future where the programming language is human, effectively making everyone in the world a programmer. This democratization of technology, according to Nadella, closes the technology divide and allows domain experts in various fields to leverage AI tools without needing traditional coding skills.
Nadella also highlighted that engagement with AI is now easier than ever before in computing history. He emphasized the importance of upskilling everyone to take advantage of these new AI capabilities.
NVIDIA's Insight: The Rise of Digital Biology
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, took a slightly different approach when discussing the future of technology and education. While not directly addressing software development, Huang pointed to digital biology as a field with immense potential.
Huang suggested that understanding human biology, traditionally a complex scientific field, is becoming increasingly important. He envisions a future where life sciences transition from a field of sporadic discovery to one of systematic engineering, similar to how software and computer hardware have evolved.
"Digital biology will be a field of engineering, not a field of science," Huang predicted, encouraging a new generation to consider careers in this emerging sector.
Stability AI's Forecast: The End of Traditional Programming?
Perhaps the most dramatic prediction came from Emad Mostaque, former CEO of Stability AI. Mostaque stated bluntly, "There are no programmers in 5 years." He based this assertion on current trends, noting that 41% of all code on GitHub is already AI-generated, and that ChatGPT can pass a high-level programmer exam.
Mostaque suggests that instead of teaching children traditional programming languages, we should focus on helping them understand how to ask great questions or give effective directions to AI systems.
Microsoft's Optimistic Outlook on Developer Growth
Despite these transformative predictions, Satya Nadella of Microsoft maintains an optimistic outlook on the future of software development. He noted that developers using GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered code completion tool, are 50% more productive.
Nadella believes that while AI will change the nature of software development, it will also lower the barriers to entry, potentially increasing the global number of professional developers from the current 100 million to as many as a billion.
Conclusion: Adapting to a Changing Landscape
The consensus among these industry leaders is clear: AI is set to dramatically reshape the field of software development. While opinions vary on the extent and timeline of this transformation, all agree that the role of developers will evolve. The focus is shifting from writing code to understanding user needs, innovating, and effectively leveraging AI tools.
As the industry adapts to these changes, there's a growing emphasis on continuous learning and upskilling. The future of software development appears to be one where AI augments human capabilities, potentially democratizing the field and opening up new opportunities for innovation across various domains.
For current and aspiring developers, the key takeaway is the importance of adaptability. As AI takes over more routine coding tasks, the most valuable skills will likely be those that AI can't easily replicate: creativity, problem-solving, and the ability to understand and translate human needs into technological solutions.
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Telegram permits private chat reports as founder defends app post-arrest
Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of Pavel Durov.
Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France last month over “crimes committed by third parties” on the platform.
#telegram #socialmedia #moderation
The messaging app, which serves nearly 1 billion monthly active users, has long maintained a reputation for minimal supervision of user interactions. The earlier language on the FAQ page said the private chats were protected from moderation requests. “All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them,” the FAQ page earlier started.
On Thursday night, Telegram began implementing changes to its moderation policy. “All Telegram apps have ‘Report’ buttons that let you flag illegal content for our moderators — in just a few taps,” the company states on its updated frequently-asked-questions page.
The platform has also provided an email address for automated takedown requests, instructing users to include links to content requiring moderator attention.
It’s unclear how, and whether, this change impacts Telegram’s ability to respond to requests from law enforcement agencies. The company has previously cooperated with court orders to share some information about its users.
AI craze is distorting VC market, as tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon pour in billions of dollars
With the biggest companies in the world throwing billions of dollars at generative AI startups, traditional VCs are struggling to find their place in the boom.
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks with Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei during AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas on Nov. 28, 2023.
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Almost three years into a largely dormant IPO cycle, venture capitalists are in a tough spot.
The private market is dotted with richly valued artificial intelligence startups, including some that are described as generational companies. But venture firms in need of exits aren't going to get relief from AI anytime soon.
That's because, unlike prior tech booms, VCs aren't at the center of this one. Rather, the biggest companies in the industry — Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Nvidia — have been pouring in billions of dollars to fuel the growth of capital-intensive companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI and CoreWeave.
With some of the most well-capitalized companies on the planet flinging open their wallets to fund the generative AI craze, the normal pressures to go public don't apply. And even if they did, this batch of startups is nowhere near showing off the profitability metrics that public investors need to see before taking the plunge.
Tech giants have more than money. They're also throwing in tangible benefits like cloud credits and business partnerships, packaging the types of incentives that VCs can't match.
"The AI startups we talk to are having no problems fundraising at robust valuations," Melissa Incera, an analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, told CNBC. "Many are still reporting having too much unsolicited investor interest at the moment."
Elon Musk's X could still face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans' data
Earlier this week, the EU's lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot
Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot, but the saga isn’t over yet for the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s received — and will “examine” — a number of complaints that have been filed under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
#x #elonmusk #grok #ai
“The DPC will now examine the extent to which any processing that has taken place complies with the relevant provisions of the GDPR,” the regulator told TechCrunch. “If, further to that examination, it is established that TUIC [Twitter International Unlimited Company, as X’s main Irish subsidiary is still known] has infringed the GDPR, the DPC will then consider whether the exercise of any of its corrective powers is warranted and, if so, which one(s).”
X agreed to suspend data processing for Grok training in early August. The undertaking X made to it was then made permanent earlier this week. That agreement committed X to delete and stop using Europeans users’ data to train its AIs which it had collected between between May 7, 2024 and August 1, 2024, according to a copy TechCrunch obtained. But it’s now clear there is no requirement on X to delete any AI models trained on the data.
Salesforce acquires data management firm Own for $1.9B in cash
Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash.
Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash.
Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. The company reportedly considered — but ultimately decided against — purchasing data management software firm Informatica earlier this year.
#newsonleo #salesforce #data #own #technology
In a press release, Salesforce GM Steve Fisher said the acquisition “underscores [Salesforce’s] commitment to providing secure, end-to-end solutions that protect our customers’ most valuable data.”
“Data security has never been more critical, and Own’s proven expertise and products will enhance our ability to offer robust data protection and management solutions to our customers,” Fisher continued.
'Stop harassing Starlink,' SpaceX president tells Brazilian judge
The dispute between X and Brazil is spilling over to Elon Musk's other businesses.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell made a public plea to one of Brazil’s top judicial figures on Thursday, asking him to “please stop harassing Starlink” amid the ongoing battle in the country against Elon Musk’s social media business X.
Musk has been engaged in a months-long dispute with the Brazilian courts, which have been waging a war against X for hosting accounts that the courts say spread extremism and misinformation.
#newsonleo #brazil #spacex #starlink
After X refused to comply with court orders last month asking it to remove certain accounts, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered an immediate, country-wide suspension of the platform. That ban, backed by Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was unanimously upheld earlier this week.
But the feud has been spilling over to Musk’s other businesses, chiefly SpaceX, which sells its satellite internet service Starlink in the country. Immediately after banning X, Brazil reportedly froze Starlink’s company accounts, in order to guarantee X pay the more than $3 million in fines it owes Brazilian courts, local media reported.
That order is specifically focused on Starlink Brazil Holding Ltda and Starlink Brazil Servicos de Internet Ltda, which have provided internet access to around 250,000 customers inside the country since January 2022. Many of those customers are located in regions of the country underserved by traditional telecom infrastructure. It’s likely one of Starlink’s largest markets outside of North America.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
Microsoft gives deepfake porn victims a tool to scrub images from Bing search
The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people.
The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people. On Thursday, Microsoft took a major step to give revenge porn victims a tool to stop its Bing search engine from returning these images.
#newsonleo #porn #deepfake #bing #technology
Microsoft announced a partnership with StopNCII, an organization that allows victims of revenge porn to create a digital fingerprint of these explicit images, real or not, on their device. StopNCII’s partners then use that digital fingerprint, or “hash” as it’s technically known, to scrub the image from their platforms. Microsoft’s Bing joins Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pornhub and OnlyFans in partnering with StopNCII, and using its digital fingerprints to stop the spread of revenge porn.
In a blog post, Microsoft says it already took action on 268,000 explicit images being returned through Bing’s image search in a pilot through the end of August with StopNCII’s database. Previously, Microsoft offered a direct reporting tool, but the company says that’s proven to be not enough.
“We have heard concerns from victims, experts, and other stakeholders that user reporting alone may not scale effectively for impact or adequately address the risk that imagery can be accessed via search,” said Microsoft in its blog post on Thursday.
You can imagine how much worse that problem would be on a significantly more popular search engine: Google.
Google Search offers its own tools to report and remove explicit images from its search results, but has faced criticism from former employees and victims for not partnering with StopNCII, according to a Wired investigation. Since 2020, Google users in South Korea have reported 170,000 search and YouTube links for unwanted sexual content, Wired reported.
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Google faces provisional antitrust charges in UK for ‘self-preferencing’ its ad exchange
More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K'.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adtech antitrust abuses.
More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K’.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adtech antitrust abuses. The tech giant will now have a chance to respond to the provisional findings before the regulator reaches a final decision.
Confirmed violations of U.K. competition law can lead to corrective orders and fines of up to 10% of annual worldwide group turnover. So the outcome of this case is likely to be closely watched.
#technology #newsonleo #google
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been investigating Google’s role in the adtech stack over suspected abuses of dominance since May 2022. The new development is the sending of a formal statement of objections to Google setting out provisional findings that accuse the adtech giant of self-preferencing its own ad exchange at the expense of customers and rivals.
The CMA said it believes Google’s practices could be harming “thousands” of UK publishers and advertisers who rely on its adtech to bid for and sell advertising space.
Ex-OpenAI Founder Ilya Sutskever Strikes Back! #technology #ai #newsonleo
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Ilya Sutskever's New AI Venture: Safe Super Intelligence Inc (SSI)
In a significant development in the artificial intelligence landscape, Ilya Sutskever, one of the original founders of OpenAI, has launched a new company called Safe Super Intelligence Inc (SSI). This move comes after a series of dramatic events at OpenAI and represents a new chapter in the pursuit of advanced AI technologies.
Background: The OpenAI Controversy
Sutskever's Departure from OpenAI
The Birth of SSI
Safe Super Intelligence Inc was founded by Ilya Sutskever along with two other prominent figures in the AI field:
SSI's Mission and Approach
Recent Funding and Valuation
Key Points and Considerations
Industry Implications
The emergence of SSI with substantial funding and a high-profile team signals intensifying competition in the race to develop advanced AI systems. It also highlights the growing emphasis on AI safety and the different approaches companies are taking to address this crucial aspect of AI development.
As the AI landscape continues to evolve, the impact of SSI and its focus on safe super intelligence will be closely watched by industry observers, researchers, and policymakers alike.
Broadcom says it will sell $12 billion in AI parts and custom chips this year
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said in a statement that the company expects to record $12 billion in sales from AI parts and custom chips in fiscal 2024.
Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and earnings.
Broadcom shares fell 7% in extended trading after guidance was in-line with expectations.
#newsonleo #boradcom #ai #technology
Here is how the chipmaking conglomerate did versus LSEG consensus estimates for the quarter that ended Aug. 4:
Earnings per share: $1.24 adjusted vs. $1.20 expected
Revenue: $13.07 billion vs. $12.97 billion expected
Broadcom projects current-quarter revenue of $14 billion, versus $1.36 per share on $14.04 billion expected.
OpenAI's Next-Generation Models Could Reportedly Cost $2,000
The Sam Altman-led company's new artificial intelligence models, such as Strawberry and Orion, likely won't be cheap.
OpenAI is reportedly considering high-price subscriptions for its next-generation AI models. Those models could include its upcoming "reasoning model" codenamed Strawberry as well as GPT-4o successor, Orion.
According to a new report from The Information, OpenAI executives are weighing charging users as much as $2,000 (over an undetermined amount of time) for access to their most advanced AI models. For comparison, ChatGPT Premium currently costs $20 per month, a fee that enables the use of GPT-4o, the company's current flagship model.
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In July, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI had defined five stages of AI innovation, with the first being chatbots like GPT-4o, and the second being "reasoners," capable of human-level problem solving. It's an open secret in Silicon Valley that OpenAI is currently deep in development on its own reasoning model, named Strawberry. Such a model could be capable of reasoning through problems in a multi-step process, making them better equipped to deal with challenges that current models struggle with, such as solving complex math problems. The Information previously reported that Strawberry could be released as soon as this fall.
OpenAI is also supposedly developing a new large language model, codenamed Orion. The Information has reported that Strawberry is being used to generate high-quality training data for Orion, which could help to reduce hallucinations and other errors.
Osom is shutting down on Friday, as it had 'no customers for a mobile phone'
OSOM always had a difficult road, with plans to launch a privacy-focused handset.
Launching a phone company is a remarkably difficult — some even say foolish — thing to do. OSOM Products, a phone startup that rose from the smoldering ashes of Essential in 2020, is closing shop. Android Authority was first to report the news, after gaining access to an internal announcement from CEO Jason Keats.
OSOM always had a difficult road, with plans to launch a privacy-focused handset. And much like Essential before it, the company dealt with its own legal struggles — namely a lawsuit filed by a former employee alleging financial mismanagement.
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For its part, the company did manage to release a mobile device, though not the first-party phone it had announced. Rather the company lent its technology to a web3-focused device from Solana.
OSOM did manage to bring a product to market under its own name. The OSOM Privacy Cable is effectively a USB cord whose data transfer can be disabled in situations where “juice jackers” might be present.
“The report in Android Authority is correct, OSOM is sadly shutting down. In May of 2024, having no customers for a mobile phone despite concerted efforts, OSOM at the time decided to pivot to a new project,” CEO Jason Keats said in a statement provided to TechCrunch. “OSOM was forced to let go of a number of employees at that time to reduce our burn rate.”
The “new project” would appear to refer to an “AI-powered camera” it planned as a follow-up to its unreleased smartphone. According to initial reports, Keats had attempted to sell the company off to HP, but was unable to strike a deal.
US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine's government with destructive malware
The U.S. government indictment demonstrated deep knowledge of the Russian spies' activities, including their real-world meetings at a cafe in Moscow.
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five members of Russia’s military intelligence agency of hacking several Ukrainian government agencies, an unnamed U.S. government agency in Maryland and computers belonging to 26 NATO countries, among other victims.
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The DOJ announced the indictment of the five members of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, also known as GRU, and in particular its hacking Unit 29155. The indictment names Russian GRU colonel and commanding officer of cyber operations, Yuriy Denisov; lieutenants Vladislav Borovkov, Denis Denisenko, Dmitriy Goloshubov and Nikolay Korchagin; and a civilian co-conspirator, Amin Stigal, who was previously indicted for some of the same crimes.
Prosecutors allege that the six indicted individuals were behind the WhisperGate cyberattack, an operation that was designed to appear like a ransomware attack on the Ukrainian government, but was actually a destructive attack that would make the targeted computers unusable. The Russian government has been accused of launching WhisperGate in support of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.
British competition regulator objects to Google's ad tech practices
Britain's competition watchdog provisionally found that Google's ad tech practices are impacting competition in the U.K.
Britain's competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google's ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K.
In a statement, the Competition and Markets Authority alleged that the U.S. internet search titan "has harmed competition by using its dominance in online display advertising to favour its own ad tech services."
#newsonleo #google #ads #britian #regulation
The "vast majority" of the U.K.'s thousands of publishers and advertisers use Google's technology in order to bid for and sell space to display ads in a market where players were spending £1.8 billion annually as of a 2019 study, according to the CMA.
The regulator added that it is also "concerned that Google is actively using its dominance in this sector to preference its own services." So-called "self-preferencing" of services by technology giants is a key concern for regulators scrutinizing these companies.
The CMA further noted that Google disadvantages ad technology competitors, preventing them from competing on a "level playing field."
"Many businesses are able to keep their digital content free or cheaper by using online advertising to generate revenue. Adverts on these websites and apps reach millions of people across the UK — assisting the buying and selling of goods and services," Juliette Enser, interim executive director of enforcement at the CMA, said in a statement Friday.
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The Guardian: YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/05/youtube-to-restrict-teenagers-exposure-to-videos-about-weight-and-fitness
The Guardian: M&S using AI as personal style guru in effort to boost online sales
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/m-and-s-using-ai-to-advise-shoppers-body-shape-style-preferences
The Guardian: UK signs first international treaty to implement AI safeguards
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/05/uk-signs-first-international-treaty-to-implement-ai-safeguards
The Guardian: Pavel Durov: Telegram founder says France arrest is ‘misguided’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/06/pavel-durov-telegram-founder-post-comments-arrest-france
Wired: Therapy Sessions Exposed by Mental Health Care Firm’s Unsecured Database
https://www.wired.com/story/confidant-health-therapy-records-database-exposure/
BBC: Man accused of using bots and AI to earn streaming revenue
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3ld9wy3eo
BBC: Crash dummies and robot arms: How airline seats are tested
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74l9p2x3dxo
BBC Video: Police drone finds missing child in massive cornfield
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cwy4r1xn7l2o
BBC: Microsoft is turning to AI to make its workplace more inclusive
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240905-microsoft-ai-interview-bbc-executive-lounge
Reuters: US calls on Big Tech to help evade online censors in Russia, Iran
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-calls-big-tech-help-evade-online-censors-russia-iran-2024-09-05/
Reuters: Dutch government retakes export control over two ASML tools from US
https://www.reuters.com/technology/dutch-government-retakes-export-control-over-two-asml-tools-us-2024-09-06/
Reuters: Google abusing power over website ads, UK regulator says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-watchdog-objects-googles-ad-tech-practices-2024-09-06/
Reuters: Broadcom shares slump as revenue target disappoints investors hoping for big AI boost
https://www.reuters.com/technology/broadcom-shares-slump-revenue-target-disappoints-investors-hoping-big-ai-boost-2024-09-06/
Reuters: Social media platforms leave alleged Russian influence network largely untouched
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/social-media-platforms-leave-alleged-russian-influence-network-largely-untouched-2024-09-06/
Reuters: X global affairs head Nick Pickles resigns
https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-global-affairs-head-nick-pickles-resigns-2024-09-06/
Reuters: YouTube terminating Tenet Media channel after US indictment
https://www.reuters.com/technology/youtube-terminating-tenet-media-channel-after-us-indictment-2024-09-06/
Reuters: Vietnamese police raid tech company VNG
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnamese-police-raid-tech-company-vng-2024-09-06/
Reuters: Broadcom forecasts lukewarm quarterly revenue despite AI chip surge, shares fall
https://www.reuters.com/technology/broadcom-beats-third-quarter-revenue-estimates-2024-09-05/
If you think SearchGPT is ready to replace Google, you’re hallucinating too
When OpenAI debuted SearchGPT, the demonstrations suggested everything about how people look for things online would immediately change forever. But, “wow” became “wow, that’s “embarrassing” when examples of the AI search engine at work proved somewhat flawed. The challenge to Google’s reign as search engine king is still undergoing revisions.
According to a new piece in The Washington Post, SearchGPT is still wobbly on the facts. Google may not have to worry about losing its digital search throne any time soon, even as it moves at breakneck speed to implement its own AI search tools.
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The issues are not hard to understand. SearchGPT is supposed to meld OpenAI’s AI models with real-time web data for faster, more accurate answers. Questions and keywords return a summary of the requested information instead of the standard Google links. It can be fast and informative. Unfortunately for OpenAI, that initial error of fact is starting to look more like the rule than the exception. As the Post pointed out, early testers saw SearchGPT claim that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was speaking at a tech conference in the near future that he wasn’t actually scheduled to attend. That’s a hallucination just as bad as anything made up by ChatGPT.
And even if SearchGPT were guaranteed to only state the truth, that’s not much of a salve when it has no way to answer your questions. Tests shared with the Post especially disparaged SearchGPT’s abilities to help out with local information. That information has to come from somewhere. Google’s decades of refined data on vast numbers of businesses and the products and services they provide make it a snap to find most of the information people might want about the places around them. And if there is anything it doesn’t already have in its databanks, its partners and subsidiaries can likely fill it in for them. SearchGPT and OpenAI have no such database access and so the responses are either nonsense or nothing.
I tried Samsung's new 4K projector with built-in Dolby Atmos speakers, and it can replace a soundbar… with one big catch
Samsung finally unveiled its latest projectors, The Premiere 9 and The Premiere 7, in late August after first offering a sneak peek at CES 2024 and at IFA 2024 I got to see the Premiere 9 in action.
When it comes to the visuals, there's wasn't much surprising going on – it has a 'triple laser' projection design, the colors were rich and nuanced, and combined with the brightness of over 3,000 ANSI Lumens, it looked rich even with the lights on, and very impressive with them off.
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But it wasn't the picture quality that I was most interested in (especially given it wasn't overall ideal viewing conditions – we'll review the Premiere 9 and get serious about that stuff later). Instead, the 2.2.2-channel Dolby Atmos sound system is the most fun part.
Samsung's demo footage was designed to show off what it can do with height and width, and you can really tell the system has the benefit of upfiring drivers, because even in a sub-optimal conference center room, elements of the sound steered across the 130-inch screen with precision, and burst up way higher than the low profile of the projector's body. The positioning had some specificity too, it didn't just run up or to the side – it felt like it had more of a clear point of height and width.
It was a pretty dynamic sound, and offered a solid grasp on detail and clarity, though not as strong as the best soundbars can go, if you spend a lot of month just on that, rather than having it bundled into your projector price.
But I was seriously impressed with the spatial sound and general home theater effect of the Atmos reproduction, and I don't think you'd need a soundbar in many cases, with one serious issue: bass.
Samsung has certainly tried to put bass into the Premiere 9 (it does claim two sub channels, after all!), but there's simply no physical way to put a really impactful subwoofer in a unit that large if you're also squeezing in a whole projector.
OpenAI gives artists access to unreleased tools like Sora for New York gallery exhibit
OpenAI on Friday announced an art gallery collaboration, allowing artists access to its unreleased artificial intelligence tools for a New York showcase.
OpenAI announced Friday a New York City art gallery collaboration that gives artists access to unreleased artificial intelligence tools.
The exhibit, a series called "Strada Nuova: New Road" on view at Strada Gallery will run for three weeks and centers on a "diverse group of artists [that] is curated to consist of brilliant researchers, academics, and creators working between physical and digital artwork," according to Strada founder Paul Hill.
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Hill told CNBC he reached out to OpenAI to suggest the project. Talks began about six months ago and the plan came together with OpenAI offering artists access to tools including its Sora video generator, its Voice Engine voice generator, its DALL-E 3 image generator and ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, as well as educational resources and artist stipends.
Minne Atairu, an interdisciplinary artist who has specialized in using AI in art for the past four years — before ChatGPT even launched — uses image generation, both 2D and 3D, as well as video generation in her art to highlight "understudied gaps" in Black historical archives. For this exhibit, she said she used Sora to create an AI-generated video, "Regina Gloriana," inspired by supernatural horror films produced in Nigeria in the 1990s.
he use of AI in art, in many forms, is part of a wide-ranging debate that has generated heaps of controversy — and an increasing number of lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement and training data.
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup, was recently hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors over alleged copyright infringement. Last year, a group of prominent U.S. authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. And last January, a group of artists filed a class-action lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt over alleged copyright infringement by their AI image-generation tools.
And to not to be too serious:
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Honor looks to get ahead of Apple in China with its own AI assistant
The upgraded AI agent from Honor will look to compete with the likes of Samsung's Bixby and Apple's Siri.
Honor announced its first artificial intelligence assistant on Friday, as it looks to jump ahead of companies like Apple and introduce software it hopes will spur users to buy its latest devices.
Honor's digital assistant Yoyo has got an AI upgrade and will be coming to users in China in the near future, with international markets to follow, the company said. Yoyo is not new — but the AI infusion is. honor is calling it the Honor AI Agent.
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In one demonstration seen by CNBC ahead of the announcement, Honor showed how a user could ask Yoyo to find automatic subscriptions across WeChat and Alipay, the two most popular payment apps in China. During the exercise, Yoyo found the subscriptions, then asked the user whether to cancel them.
So-called AI agents have been touted by smartphone makers as way to make the experiences on phone devices more personal and efficient. The idea is that these agents could learn a user's behavior and make suggestions based on that.
While digital assistants like Apple's Siri or Samsung's Bixby have been around for a while, their abilities have been limited. Companies are now looking at ways to infuse such virtual helpers with AI, following the emergence of ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs), which are trained on huge amounts of data and underpin conversational chatbots.
Honor's competitors are taking similar steps. TM Roh, the head of Samsung's mobile division, told CNBC that the company will be unveiling a further upgraded Bixby this year that uses the South Korean technology giant's own LLM. Apple is also gearing up to roll out Apple Intelligence which has an improved Siri, though it is unlikely to come to China this year.
Today, at INLEO, I learned and tried an interesting technology for accumulating information, which can be safely used as a draft of any book, this is the creation of containers :) !VSC
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Scientists present the world's first nuclear clock
For the first time, scientists have managed to switch the nucleus of a thorium atom from one state to another using a laser, an effect that can be used for high-precision measurements and has enabled the creation of the world's first nuclear clock.
The study, led by professor Thorsten Schumm, from the Technical University of Vienna, was published on Wednesday (4), in the journal Nature.
Every clock needs something to act as a timer — like the regular movement of the pendulum in a grandfather clock. Today's high-precision watches often use the oscillation of electromagnetic waves from a laser beam, but even the frequency of a laser can change slightly over time and need to be adjusted.
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“That's why, in addition to the laser, you need a quantum system that reacts extremely selectively to a very specific laser frequency,” explained Schumm.
Atomic clocks use cesium or strontium atoms, for example, so that if the laser frequency changes, the atoms are no longer excited efficiently and the laser can be readjusted.
If the nucleus of an atom could be used in this same way, the clock would be even more accurate, according to scientists' predictions. Atomic nuclei are much smaller than atoms and, therefore, react less to external disturbances.
Although the world's first nuclear clock has not yet surpassed the precision of existing atomic clocks, Schumm expects it to do so within the next two to three years.
“Our goal was to develop a new technology. Once it is there, the increase in quality comes naturally, this has always been the case,” he explained. “The first cars were no faster than carriages. It was all about introducing a new concept. And that is exactly what we have now achieved with the nuclear clock.”