What are news in AI from leading tech news sites?
Following #AI, #llm, #chatgpt, #agi from arstechnica.com, theverge.com, hackernoon.com, engadget.com, ycombinator.com, wired.com, theguardian.com, techcrunch.com, vice.com.
161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom
From arstechnica.com, on Sat, 12PM, 15 25
How OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's website ‘like a DDoS attack’ | TechCrunch
From techcrunch.com, 4h ago, 9 44
‘I don’t like being revered’: Brian Eno on art, AI, and why he hates talking about David Bowie
From theguardian.com, 5h ago, 9 13
Startup accuses Nvidia and Microsoft of infringing on patents and forming a cartel
From theverge.com, on Sep 5, 9 9
Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo | Hacker News
From ycombinator.com, 17h ago, 7 7
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
From wired.com, on Thu, 11PM, 6 26
New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage
From arstechnica.com, on Sep 7, 3 3
From theguardian.com
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AI has given us the pope in a puffer, but it is also predicted to wipe out 200,000 entertainment jobs. We report from a crucial event in Portugal, full of angry artists, digital miracles – and a surprising amount of optimism
on Nov 6
From wired.com
An Election Denial Group Has Spent Months Compiling ‘Suspicious Voter’ Lists in North Carolina
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Emails obtained by WIRED show that technology from a company called EagleAI Network is helping election deniers target their neighbors.
on Nov 5
From arstechnica.com
Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase
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Anthropic’s smallest AI model now beats its older largest LLM, Opus, at some tasks.
on Nov 6
From techcrunch.com
Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions | TechCrunch
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A series of recent rulings from regulators dashed the Big Tech companies' hopes of finding a quick fix for their electricity needs.
on Nov 5
From theverge.com
Alexa at 10: Amazon’s assistant is a winner and a failure
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On The Vergecast: assessing Amazon’s voice assistant, one decade in.
on Nov 5
From techcrunch.com
AI safety advocates tell founders to slow down | TechCrunch
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"Move cautiously and red-team things" is sadly not as catchy as "move fast and break things." But three AI safety advocates made it clear to startup
on Nov 5
From techcrunch.com
Meta says it's making its Llama models available for US national security applications | TechCrunch
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Meta confirmed that it's making its Llama models available to U.S. government contractors for national security applications.
on Nov 4
From techcrunch.com
Anthropic hikes the price of its Haiku model | TechCrunch
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Anthropic has released its newest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. But it's pricier than the last generation — and lacks image analysis capabilities (for now).
on Nov 4
From theguardian.com
Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devices
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UK consumer group Which? finds some everyday items including watches and speakers are ‘stuffed with trackers’
on Nov 5
From techcrunch.com
Coatue is raising $1B for AI bets | TechCrunch
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Coatue Management, a hedge fund that invested heavily in tech startups during the pandemic-infused boom, is raising $1 billion to back AI-focused
on Nov 5