Without last week’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse, AI and chatbots would dominate tech conversations. Microsoft-backed OpenAI released GPT-4, a new language model, in recent days. Anthropic’s Claude chatbot competed. Gmail and Docs are getting AI from Google. Chatbot-enabled Bing search has garnered attention. Missing name? Apple. The Cupertino-based company …
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Meta tracking violates EU data transfer rules
Austria’s data protection authority found that Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law by transferring personal data to the US, where government surveillance was possible. In August 2020, the European privacy rights group NOYB filed a number of complaints against websites using Google Analytics for data export. Several EU …
Read More »Poe on Quora is introducing subscriptions so that you can communicate with a GPT-4-powered bot
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 …
Read More »This VC was duped out of $10,000 and is now creating a cryptographic security vault
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 …
Read More »Torch is developing outside solar-powered sensors to detect wildfires quickly
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, …
Read More »According to Mark Zuckerberg, engineers who joined Meta in person outperform those who joined virtually
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 …
Read More »Greg Brockman of OpenAI talks in an interview about how GPT-4 isn’t perfect, but neither are you
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 …
Read More »In a letter to customers, Silicon Valley Bank’s new CEO states, “We are operating business as usual”
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. …
Read More »Open Health Stack is made available by Google for programmers
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 …
Read More »Google invests heavily in implementing AI in its workspace
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 …
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