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Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
The Verge AI
Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn't specify any brands in particular, it's likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has collaborated with...
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Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
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Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. ...
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The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center buildout, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Years bef...
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
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ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
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"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
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Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
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Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram accoun...
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Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
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Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple." In addition to OpenAI, the law...
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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
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Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
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Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the...
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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
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The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.