Bloomberg reporting that the companies are in talks to outsource GenAI features to Gemini. I was just as surprised.
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Apple’s $100B AI R&D yields nothing, outsources to Gemini
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Did Apple completely drop the ball when it came to developing in-house AI? $100B R&D war chest and nothing to show for it? Outsourcing to Google's Gemini of all things. Wild.
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Google Report Bias: Cyberattacks Coverage Imbalance Post-October
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This Google report is really perplexing. It purports to document cyberattacks post 10/7. But it only covers those against US/Israel. No mention of attacks against Palestine. Even as US/Israel has extremely sophisticated capabilities.
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xAI Releases Generative AI Grok-1 as Open Source
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[#Article] xAI releases its generative AI Grok-1 as #opensource https://actuia.com/actualite/xai-publie-son-ia-generative-grok-1-en-open-source/
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Scale AI Remotasks Access Blocked Across Multiple African Countries
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Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya.
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Le Monde Partners with OpenAI and Adopts AI Charter
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Le Monde signs multi-year partnership with OpenAI and establishes AI charter https://actuia.com/actualite/le-monde-signe-un-partenariat-pluriannuel-avec-openai-et-se-dote-dune-charte-sur-lia/
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Musk’s Self-Driving Timeline Shifts Again After Years of Predictions
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My brain hurts trying to figure this out. Headline: "Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand". From the guy who has said every year for ten years that self driving will be here by the end of the year, the
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Elon Musk’s Immaturity as Social Media Autocrat Raises Concerns
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I think it's great that Elon is a gifted teenager in private or while building awesome trucks and spaceships, but its not optimal that he plays a teenager in public, while being acting figurehead and de facto autocratic ruler of the most important social media platform.
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Social Media Design: Balancing Multiple Audience Segments Responsibly
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Exactly. Successful media franchises are often run by people who aim to make a one audience segment very happy by making another audience segment very unhappy, but the same cannot be said for successful social media utilities (which should serve all legitimate audience segments)
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Elon’s Political Strategy and Success Freedom in Tech
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If you are super successful, you may get more freedom to joke, unless the success of your projects depends on not picking the wrong fights. Elon's strategy of infusing the polis with his political opinions suggests that most of his opinions about humans are randomness + local RL.