At Puck, Ian’s goal is to reground the reporting surrounding A.I. with an insider’s view of the business and unbiased understanding of the technology, itself.
Finally she came across a floral symbol that was used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground. She rendered a 16 x 16 bitmap of the little symbol and showed it to the rest of the team, and everybody liked it. Twenty years later, even in OS X, the Macintosh still has a little bit of a Swedish campground in it.
'Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from the San Francisco Standard:
About an hour into my meeting with the undisputed hackathon king of San Francisco, Rene Turcios asked if I wanted to smoke a joint with him. I politely declined, but his offer hardly surprised me. Turcios has built a reputatio...
Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback.
Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May
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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews
A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according
Apple pulls the curtain back on durability testing of iPhone, iPad, and more
Apple continues to open up its product durability testing to outsiders in an effort to let customers know how the company continues to balance design, durability, and repairability for the iPhone and other products.
Apple has considered launching its own public cloud for its millions of developers, The Information reported Thursday.
The service would run on Apple’s chips and could potentially handle certain workloads more efficiently than the major cloud players. Apple sees its cloud as potentially useful for tasks like artificial intelligence inference, the process of using pre-trained AI models to
Meta Hires Researcher Gross to Join New AI Superintelligence Lab
Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., is joining Meta Platforms Inc.’s new superintelligence lab focused on AI.
GOP Budget Bill Includes Massive Spectrum Handout To Large Wireless Carriers, Hurting WiFi Speeds
From the massive handout to already-wealthy Americans to the likely fatal cuts to Medicaid, there’s plenty to be disgusted by in the GOP Budget bill approved by Congress today. But there̵…
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Amazon Has About as Many Robots as Humans in its Warehouses
Amazon now has over one million robots in its warehouses, nearly as many human workers as the e-commerce giant employees in the facilities, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Robots now contribute to about 75% of Amazon’s deliveries around the world, according to the report. That automation has increased the productivity of each of Amazon’s workers, allowing the average warehouse worker to
Ted Cruz’s Dumb Plan To Punish States That Regulate AI By Withholding Broadband Grants Falls Apart
While the GOP budget bill continues to include no limit of corrupt garbage that will kill millions of Americans (the cuts to Medicaid and rural hospitals being particularly brutal), one key compone…
ICEBlock, an app that lets users track and report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, reached the top of the App Store after receiving criticism from the Trump administration.