Cruise, the Self-Driving Car Subsidiary of G.M., Names a New C.E.O.: After a year of safety problems, layoffs and mass executive departures, G.M. is trying to find stability for its futuristic driverless car business. https://
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GM’s Cruise Names New CEO After Safety Crisis and Exits
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ChatGPT Voice Mode Alpha Launch Generates Excitement
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Con el comienzo de la alpha del nuevo modo de voz de ChatGPT empezamos a ver nuevas demos y a recobrar la emoción de lo que vimos en primavera.
— Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) 30 juillet 2024
Cuánto más usuarios reciban acceso antes veremos qué tan bien funciona la nueva tecnología de OpenAI https://t.co/CCk5HXsj3PCon el comienzo de la alpha del nuevo modo de voz de ChatGPT empezamos a ver nuevas demos y a recobrar la emoción de lo que vimos en primavera. Cuánto más usuarios reciban acceso antes veremos qué tan bien funciona la nueva tecnología de OpenAI
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Tech Leader Criticized for Deception and Environmental Impact
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Why do we keep giving this man and his organization air? He has been proven a liar many times over as claimed by his board and the systems he touts destroy the planet and devalue and devour human identity and IP. He is vile.
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Microsoft Azure AI faces supply constraints in Q3 2026
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in Azure AI, Microsoft was still a bit supply-constrained, following a trend flagged in fiscal Q3, Amy said
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Anticipation for OpenAI Advanced Voice Access Release
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How it will feel the day that @sama gives me access to Advanced Voice pic.twitter.com/XMI4PnUTfJ
— Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) 30 juillet 2024How it will feel the day that @sama gives me access to Advanced Voice
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GitHub Copilot ARR exceeds $2 billion, dominates revenue growth
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GitHub annualized run rate is now at over $2 billion, with Copilot representing over 40% of revenue growth this year, making it larger than all of GitHub when Microsoft bought it in 2018, Satya said on today's earnings call
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Volkswagen Invests $5 Billion in Rivian Electric Truck Maker
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Volkswagen Will Invest Up to $5 Billion in Rivian: VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies. https://
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Microsoft awards cash bonuses to senior director employees
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meanwhile, Microsoft says it will give out cash awards to employees in the senior director rank and lower
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Microsoft Cloud Growth Disappoints Investors in Q4 Fiscal Results
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Microsoft fiscal Q4 cloud growth is light and investors are not liking it
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Meta releases SAM 2 and SA-V dataset for vision research
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Along with the Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), we also released SA-V: a dataset containing ~51K videos and >600K masklet annotations.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 30 juillet 2024
We’re sharing this dataset with the hope that this work will help accelerate new computer vision research ➡️ https://t.co/PkgCns9qjz pic.twitter.com/j6hDTFWH4bAlong with the Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), we also released SA-V: a dataset containing ~51K videos and >600K masklet annotations. We’re sharing this dataset with the hope that this work will help accelerate new computer vision research https://
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