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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 …

One reason why cryptocurrencies aren’t used by a lot of people is that fraud is common in the industry.Despite the fact that the amount was already almost 50% lower than the year before, an industry analysis claims that over $3.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency was “lost” last year alone. The …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Late on Monday night, Silicon Valley Bank’s customers unexpectedly got an email in their inboxes from the bank’s new CEO, Tim Mayopoulos, claiming that the institution was not only open but also conducting business as usual. The email, which TechCrunch got from various sources, stated that Silicon Valley Bank, N.A. …

Google recently unveiled Open Health Stack, a brand-new open-source platform for app developers to create health-related applications. These resources, which were introduced last week at the company’s ‘The Check Up’ special event, include an Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and design standards for health apps. The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards …

The goal of the competition between Google and Microsoft is to use as much generative AI as possible in their productivity tools.Google just announced a big update to Workspace just a few days before Microsoft’s “Future of Work” event. The update includes new developer tools that will make Google’s foundation …

At Microsoft, it was the job of a whole team to guide AI innovation toward moral, responsible, and sustainable results.According to Platformer, the elimination of the ethics and society team was part of a recent round of layoffs that affected 10,000 workers throughout the company. Microsoft has recently redesigned its …

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, confirmed recent reports that another round of layoffs was looming by announcing plans to trim its employment by another 10,000 individuals and remove roughly 5,000 open positions that it had not yet filled. Also, according to Zuckerberg, the business would halt “lower priority …