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ChatGPT Reaches 400 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
ChatGPT Reaches 400 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
ChatGPT has reached over 400 million weekly active users, doubling its count since August 2024. "We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week," OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X. Engadget reports: The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a huge uproar over new riv...
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·slashdot.org·
ChatGPT Reaches 400 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
Meta’s Open-Source AI Prepares to Go to Market
Meta’s Open-Source AI Prepares to Go to Market
As Meta Platforms tries to make its large language model Llama the industry standard for artificial intelligence, it is not only courting big businesses but also taking steps to work with one of the largest customers in the world: the U.S. government.In November, the company poached Clara Shih ...
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·theinformation.com·
Meta’s Open-Source AI Prepares to Go to Market
A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups
A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of “tiny team” success.
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·nytimes.com·
A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds - Slashdot
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds - Slashdot
Advanced AI models are increasingly resorting to deceptive tactics when facing defeat, according to a study released by Palisade Research. The research found that OpenAI's o1-preview model attempted to hack its opponent in 37% of chess matches against Stockfish, a superior chess engine, succeeding 6...
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·slashdot.org·
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds - Slashdot
OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
OpenAI is increasingly looking like a consumer company, telling CNBC that it now has 400 million weekly active users. Usage is still growing at a rapid
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·techcrunch.com·
OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
Core design: How chip binning helps Apple offer A18 variants
Core design: How chip binning helps Apple offer A18 variants
The A18 in the iPhone 16e is not the same as the A18 in the iPhone 16. Here's why the act of chip binning helps Apple while also creating variants of the same chip for different products.
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·appleinsider.com·
Core design: How chip binning helps Apple offer A18 variants
Amazon Appstore for Android is shutting down in August
Amazon Appstore for Android is shutting down in August
It’s also important to note that this shutdown doesn’t just affect the store, but any apps that were downloaded from it. Many apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore were dependant on having the store installed to work properly, and Amazon says that “any apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore will not be guaranteed to operate on Android devices” following the shutdown.
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·9to5google.com·
Amazon Appstore for Android is shutting down in August
Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
This is a Q&A excerpt on the topic of AI from a lecture by Richard Feynman from September 26th, 1985.This is a clip on the Lex Clips channel that I mostly us...
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·youtube.com·
Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
Retrotechtacular: Yamming CRT Yokes
Retrotechtacular: Yamming CRT Yokes
Those of us who worked in TV repair shops, back when there was such a thing, will likely remember the cardinal rule of TV repair: Never touch the yoke if you can help it. The complex arrangement of…
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·hackaday.com·
Retrotechtacular: Yamming CRT Yokes
Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days
Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days
A couple of weeks after the initial release of Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, the company told Le Parisien that it has reached one million downloads. In
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·techcrunch.com·
Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days
Nikola, Electric Truck Maker, Files for Bankruptcy
Nikola, Electric Truck Maker, Files for Bankruptcy
The company, which once enjoyed a surging stock price, struggled to turn its plans for electric and hydrogen trucks into a viable business.
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·nytimes.com·
Nikola, Electric Truck Maker, Files for Bankruptcy
Ai Pin Consumers FAQ
Ai Pin Consumers FAQ
Effective immediately, we are beginning the process of winding down the consumer Ai Pin. To help guide you through this transition, we have compiled answers to common questions about what this mean...
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·support.humane.com·
Ai Pin Consumers FAQ
(2) Andrej Karpathy on X: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check. Thinking ✅ First, Grok 3 clearly has an around state of the art thinking model ("Think" button) and did great out of the box on my Settler's of Catan https://t.co/qIrUAN1IfD" / X
(2) Andrej Karpathy on X: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check. Thinking ✅ First, Grok 3 clearly has an around state of the art thinking model ("Think" button) and did great out of the box on my Settler's of Catan https://t.co/qIrUAN1IfD" / X

The impression I get of DeepSearch is that it's approximately around Perplexity DeepResearch offering (which is great!), but not yet at the level of OpenAI's recently released "Deep Research", which still feels more thorough and reliable (though still nowhere perfect, e.g. it, too, quite incorrectly excludes xAI as a "major LLM labs" when I tried with it...).

The impression I get of DeepSearch is that it's approximately around Perplexity DeepResearch offering (which is great!), but not yet at the level of OpenAI's recently released "Deep Research", which still feels more thorough and reliable (though still nowhere perfect, e.g. it, too, quite incorrectly excludes xAI as a "major LLM labs" when I tried with it...).
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·x.com·
(2) Andrej Karpathy on X: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check. Thinking ✅ First, Grok 3 clearly has an around state of the art thinking model ("Think" button) and did great out of the box on my Settler's of Catan https://t.co/qIrUAN1IfD" / X