Seven AI companies commit to safeguards at the White House’s request Kris Holt @krisholt Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are among the leaders in the US artificial intelligence space that have committed to certain safeguards for their technology, following a push from the White House. The companies will voluntarily agree to abide by a … Continue reading AI companies will reportedly commit to safeguards at the White House’s request
Spotify opens video podcast publishing to more creators Jon Fingas @jonfingas Spotify is ready to let anyone offer video podcasts — and this time, you won’t need to apply. As of today, all creators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can publish video podcasts through Anchor. You can charge … Continue reading Spotify reportedly wants to add full-length music videos to its app
Search Under Fire: Publishers Eye Coalition To Address Generative AI by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 28, 2023 Search engines are once again under fire from some of the top news publishers. The New York Times, News Corp, and IAC are among the companies that are discussing the formation of a coalition to address how generative … Continue reading Search Under Fire From Publishers Reportedly Forming Coalition To Address Generative AI
Andrew Tarantola @terrortola For a product that its own creators, in a marketing pique, once declared “too dangerous” to release to the general public, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is seemingly everywhere these days. The versatile automated text generation (ATG) system, which is capable of outputting copy that is nearly indistinguishable from a human writer’s work, is … Continue reading Congress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPT
Google is (unsurprisingly) shutting down Stadia in January Kris Holt @krisholt Despite claims to the contrary as recently as July, Google is shutting down its Stadia games streaming service after just three years. The company says players will still have access to their games and be able to play them until January 18, … Continue reading YouTube is reportedly testing online games for mobile and desktop
Devindra Hardawar @devindra Magic Leap’s glasses were supposed to lead us into the augmented reality era, a world beyond screens where we could interact with digital objects as if they were standing right next to us. Too bad they failed spectacularly. By early 2020, the company had raised nearly $2 billion. But aside from … Continue reading Meta reportedly wants to license Magic Leap’s AR technology
Cherlynn Low @cherlynnlow The Series 8 is the middle child of Apple’s 2022 Watch lineup, and unfortunately it might be the easiest to overlook. With its main updates being crash detection and a new skin temperature sensor that allows for ovulation tracking, the Series 8 feels like a small update to last year’s Series … Continue reading Apple is reportedly developing an AI health coach for Apple Watch
By Michael Grothaus April 19, 2023 Meta Platforms is expected to announce a third round of layoffs today, according to reports from Vox and Bloomberg. The layoffs follow two previous rounds of job cuts at Meta, which laid off 11,000 employees back in November and, just last month, announced that an additional 10,000 employees … Continue reading Meta mass layoffs: Another round of job losses will reportedly hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
Google is reportedly developing a new AI-powered search engine Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Facing renewed competition from Microsoft and OpenAI, Google is reportedly “racing” to build an “all-new” AI-powered search engine. According to The New York Times, the company is in the early stages of creating a search service that will attempt to anticipate what … Continue reading Google is reportedly developing a new AI-powered search engine
Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to unionize Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Apple Store employees at the company’s Towson Town Center location in Maryland have voted to unionize. According to the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, the group that led the unionization effort, workers voted “overwhelming” in favor of joining the International Association of Machinists … Continue reading Apple reportedly held anti-union meetings at all of its US stores
