Disney+ Sheds 4 Million Subscribers in Second Straight Quarterly Drop, Streaming Losses Narrow by 26%
The Companies Trying to Make Live Shopping a Thing in the U.S.
Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty: Traffic Down 14% in March
“…mining infrastructure companies like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining are finding opportunities to repurpose their GPU-based equipment for another industry on the precipice of a possible boom: artificial intelligence….”
Hugging Face Releases StarCoder, the Next-Generation LLM for Seamless Code Generation
Communication between different software systems can be established using either RPC (Remote Procedure Call) or RESTful (Representational State Transfer) protocols, which allow multiple systems to work together in distributed computing. pic.twitter.com/cvO3DoafES
ChatGPT and Generative AI in Banking: Reality, Hype, What’s Next, and How to Prepare
Bootstrapping Uber’s Infrastructure on arm64 with Zig
UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market
Scientists say they have found more moons with oceans in the Solar System
Mexico, where many work 6 days a week, considers the 40-hour workweek
WHO says Covid-19 emergency is over…UN health body declares end to acute phase of pandemic after at least 20mn deaths
Apple, Google, GM and the $1.5 Trillion Battle for the Car Dashboard
Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops
In February, Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime head of artificial intelligence, announced a stunning policy shift to his staff: They had to hold off sharing their work with the outside world.
Above the headlines, Apple’s revenue mix has been weirdly stable over the last 5 years. pic.twitter.com/2fCJ0oGYZQ
ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War
Germany in Talks to Limit Export of Chip Chemicals to China
The company said the iOS App Store has 101 million users in Europe, whereas iPadOS has 23 million. The Mac App Store has 6 million, the tvOS App Store has 1 million, and the watchOS App Store has under 1 million
Smartphone Market woes continue with 14.6% Drop in first quarter this year, According to IDC Tracker
Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145
Sony reports strong PS5 hardware sales as it closes in on 40 million units sold
Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust…video
A recent adjustment, in which the probe redirects a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard safety system, means all five scientific instruments aboard Voyager 2 can stay active until 2026, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history
Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that’s 20 times what the city needs
Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
Sweden is building the world’s first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pour $1 Billion Into Generative AI
Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
“…Google also faces an existential dilemma. Its search business, which accounted for the majority of Alphabet’s annual revenues of $283bn in 2022, appears to be under direct threat…”
Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (FT)
OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it….”…OpenAI’s GPT-2 model had a data set consisting of 40 gigabytes of text. GPT-3, which ChatGPT is based on, was trained on 570 GB of data. OpenAI has not shared how big the data set for its latest model, GPT-4, is…”
Atari acquires the rights to over 100 PC and console classics
“…IBM’s revenue increased 0.4% from a year earlier in the quarter, according to a statement. Net income rose 26% to $927 million, or $1.02 a share, for continuing operations….”
Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida
Building telescopes on the Moon is becoming an achievable goal
Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits Android
Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY
Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain
Google Fi gets third rebrand in 8 years, adds free trial for eSim phones
Solar sails could guide interplanetary travel, says new study
Meta Platforms releases Segment Anything Model to accelerate computer vision research
Musk’s Month Pushing Twitter Blue Failed To Win Many Subscribers …A new report by Similarweb estimates 116,000 March sign-ups
TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
How big is BloombergGPT? Well, the company says it was trained on a corpus of more than 700 billion tokens (or word fragments). For context, GPT-3, released in 2020, was trained on about 500 billion.
Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M
Stripe says in annual letter that it processed $817B in transactions in 2022, but growth has definitely slowed
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Lockheed Martin is building a Moon-to-Earth satellite communications network
Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub
Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies…Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating “significant disruption.”
Demand and ETR (estimating the time to request) Forecasting at Airports
Apple to Spend $1 Billion a Year on Films to Break Into Cinemas
“…Arm planned to stop charging chipmakers royalties for using its designs based on a chip’s value and instead charge device makers based on the value of the device…” (FT)
Google engineering head Urs Hölzle’s plan for increased efficiency, starting with rebalancing the different types of engineers
Microsoft Loop brings together all of Microsoft 365 into shared workspaces, and it’s available in preview
UK regulator warns on Broadcom’s $69bn VMware deal (FT)
HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool
Oracle has released Java 20, and says that since Java 11 in 2018 it has contributed over 70% of the fixes and features, measured by issues in the JIRA issue tracking system.
In-person time helps build relationships and get more done”
New paper: "Negativity drives online news consumption"
Blended study of 105,000 headlines and 370 million impressions concludes "each additional negative word [in a headline] increased the click-through rate by 2.3%" pic.twitter.com/EyudsDOrwn
Shares of SVB Financial tumbled 60% on Thursday after the bank announced a plan to raise more than $2 billion in capital
Artificial Intelligence Is Booming—So Is Its Carbon Footprint…”...Training GPT-3, which is a single general-purpose AI program that can generate language and has many different uses, took 1.287 gigawatt hours, according to a research paper published in 2021, or about as much electricity as 120 US homes would consume in a year. That training generated 502 tons of carbon emissions, according to the same paper, or about as much as 110 US cars emit in a year…“
Chinese video game developers accounted for 40 of the world’s top 100 mobile games publishers by revenue last month, says Sensor Tower
eBPF with Thomas Graf…eBPF stands for “extended Berkeley Packet Filter” and is a technology that allows developers to write and run highly efficient and secure programs that can analyze and modify data packets as they move through a system
Bird still has a long way to go to reach profitability
Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for preorder