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
Strategically, if I was @Google, I'd be rushing to beat Microsoft to bring generative AI to Workspace before they bring it to Office. https://t.co/i7qySAFruF
Turkey has recently been struck by devastating earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.5. The impact has been widespread and many communities have been severely affected.