1 week ago
Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, News, Tech, Technology
Yesterday, rival Anthropic announced Claude, a ChatGPT competitor to OpenAI’s new GPT-4 model. In a related announcement, Quora stated that its Poe chatbot app will soon have a paid version that will allow you to communicate with bots powered by these models. Poe subscriptions cost $19.99 per month or $199.99 …
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1 week ago
Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, News, Tech Rumors, Technology
The best piece of smart home hardware I’ve ever bought is the Nest Protect. Smoke detectors, more so than other household items, might benefit from being connected. They significantly contribute to your feeling of security while you’re away from home. Ideally, you won’t ever need it, but if you do, …
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1 week ago
Artificial Intelligence, Internet, News
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has said that internal data analysis shows that engineers who joined the company in person did better than those who joined remotely. He also said that younger engineers, or those who are “early in their careers,” do better …
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1 week ago
Artificial Intelligence, News
Yesterday, OpenAI released the eagerly anticipated text-generating AI model, GPT-4, and it’s an intriguing piece of work. GPT-4 is much better than its predecessor, GPT-3, because it makes more factually correct claims and makes it easier for developers to describe its style and behavior.It is also multimodal in that it …
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2 weeks ago
Artificial Intelligence, Internet, News
DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, launched DuckAssist, an AI-powered summarization feature, in beta today. DuckAssist can directly answer simple search queries. DDG says it uses ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Anthropic, an AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI employees, to power its natural language summarization capability, along with its own active indexing …
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2 weeks ago
Artificial Intelligence, Industry, Internet, News, Tech, Technology
Google announced that I/O will return to Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheater on May 10. The company will stream the keynotes for free, but the in-person event will be small, like last year’s. Pre-pandemic I/O was a multi-day event with keynotes and workshops. This scaled-down event appears to focus on public-facing …
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3 weeks ago
Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, Industry, Internet, News, Science, Silicon Valley, Software, Tech, Technology
According to a person with knowledge of the situation, the Japanese marketing technology company Geniee, a member of the SoftBank Group, paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (previously known as AdPushup), providing investors in the startup that started out in India with a …
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3 weeks ago
Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Industry, News, Silicon Valley, Software, Tech, Tech Rumors, Technology
A government watchdog found that the Secret Service and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) section often broke the law when they spied on people’s cell phones in a snoopy way. Last week, the inspector general for Homeland Security, who is in charge of keeping an eye on the U.S. government …
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3 weeks ago
Artificial Intelligence, Industry, News, Science, Silicon Valley, Tech, Tech Rumors, Technology
Roofing isn’t glamorous. It meets the three Ds of automation—dull, dirty, and dangerous—with ease. Some smart roboticists could transform it. It’s always one of the most dangerous construction jobs, but there are a lot of roofs in the world, so everyone who wants one should have one. At launch, Renovate …
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3 weeks ago
Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Internet, News, Software, Tech, Tech Rumors, Technology
Humanoid robots are a timeless concept, but their popularity fluctuates over time. Tesla’s Optimus prototype has reignited the debate over general-purpose robot form, efficacy, and viability. In an interview this week, Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert said, “I thought that they’d gotten a lot more done than I expected, and …
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