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/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23390589/VRG_Illo_STK022_K_Radtke_Musk_Thumbs_Up.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Judge declines to block Musk’s million voter giveaways")
Source: The Verge Elon Musk’s America PAC can move forward with its $1 million giveaways to voters after a Philadelphia judge declined an emergency petition from District Attorney Larry Krasner to block them. Krasner accused the PAC of running an illegal lottery and deceptively marketing the prize selections as random, even though “multiple winners that…
Source: Venture Beat Mike Verdu, who had largely spearheaded Netflix’s foray into gaming in recent years as VP of Netflix Games, announced on LinkedIn a new role within Netflix Games leading the company’s effort to capitalize on generative AI. The role, Vice President of GenAI for Games, focuses on using generative AI for the next…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23951352/STK043_VRG_Illo_N_Barclay_4_Meta.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Meta AI can now be used by the US military for national security")
Source: The Verge Meta will now allow US government agencies and contractors to use its open-source Llama AI model for “national security applications.” In an announcement on Monday, the company said it’s working with Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, and others to make Llama available to the government. Under Meta’s “acceptable use policy,” people…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25715037/2028793337.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Here’s FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr sucking up to Donald Trump by threatening to take NBC off the air")
Source: The Verge FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr loves the idea of government speech regulations, and he especially loves the idea that he will be the one to impose them in a future Trump administration. That’s the short version. Here’s the slightly longer, dumber version: Kamala Harris made a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live over…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25183570/2024_chevrolet_blazer_ev_rs_101_2000.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "GM says it has become the No. 2 seller of EVs in the US")
Source: The Verge GM is claiming the number two spot in EV sales in the US for the third quarter of this year, selling 32,000 electric vehicles. The automaker produces EVs across multiple brands running on the same platform, like Chevy’s Silverado, Blazer, and Equinox EVs, as well as the GMC Hummer EV and the…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25715062/Snoop_Dogg_10.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Snoop Dogg’s Times Square concert showed the ambitious future of music in Fortnite")
Source: The Verge In front of thousands of fans in Times Square, with most of the sprawling screens displaying his face, Snoop Dogg provided a twist on one of hip-hop’s iconic lines. “It ain’t nothin’ but a gangsta party,” he chanted. “It ain’t nothin’ but a Fortnite gangsta party.” The moment was part of a concert…
Source: Venture Beat UC San Diego and Tsinghua University researchers develop breakthrough AI method that teaches small language models when to use tools versus internal knowledge, achieving 28% better accuracy while using fewer resources than larger models like GPT-4. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25715120/airtag_suitcase1.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Apple will let you share lost AirTag info with an airline")
Source: The Verge Apple will be introducing a new feature to its Find My app that allows you to temporarily share the location of a lost AirTag with “an airline or a trusted person,” according to MacRumors, which is testing the second developer beta release of iOS 18.2. The feature could make it easier for…
Source: Venture Beat It doesn’t sound like much coming from the world’s wealthiest man and multi-billionaire, and it’s not really on a per user basis. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25366150/247070_Xbox_AI_chatbot__CVirginiaA.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "You can now try out Microsoft’s new AI-powered Xbox chatbot")
Source: The Verge Microsoft has been testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot, and now Xbox Insiders can try it out for the first time. I exclusively revealed the existence of this new “Xbox Support Virtual Agent” earlier this year, and Microsoft now says it’s designed “to help Xbox players more efficiently solve their support-related gaming…
