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.
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B…YouTube Ad Revenue Drops by Nearly 8%
Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version
GPT-4 could pop up in Bing, as Google races to build chatbot search products
Netflix lists rules and exemptions to prevent account sharing outside household
Jeff Bezos built Amazon around the answers to the most important question no one asks, "what’s not going to change in the next 10 years?" pic.twitter.com/d2K8Al2AlE
Intel posted a 32% year-over-year decline in revenue and a net loss of $644 million for the quarter
Report: Stripe tried to raise more funding at a $55B-$60B valuation
Uber Eats now shows you how much of your information is shared with delivery people
Evident, a benchmarking and intelligence company, says its inaugural Index can rank the 23 largest banks in North America and Europe on their competence in AI.
Deepfakes for scrawl: With handwriting synthesis, no pen is necessary
Nvidia recently released a beta version of Eye Contact, an AI-powered software video feature that automatically maintains eye contact for you while on-camera by estimating and aligning gaze
ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
“…NASA’s Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds…from a nuclear-powered copter on Saturn’s moon Titan to blimps on Venus, space engineers are planning innovative flying machines to explore faraway landscapes“
Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, featuring new Neural Engine and more
2022 global smartphone shipments were the lowest in nearly a decade
We just built some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen at Vowel:
Generative AI- powered meeting summaries.
TLDRs automatically created at the end of your Vowel meetings that you can share with the whole team in 1-click. Here’s a quick demo on how it works: pic.twitter.com/dUfhv2x76s
Google TV and Android TV now on over 150 million active devices, up 40 million since last year
“There wasn’t a single bank robbery in Denmark last year…Bank robberies are on the decline in other countries too, as the move away from cash to digital banking gives rise to cyber crime, such as hacks and phishing scams, which target bank details and other personal information.”
The American Farm Bureau Federation and John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding today that ensures farmers’ and ranchers’ right to repair their own farm equipment