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Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hallucinations, or factually inaccurate responses, continue to plague large language models (LLMs). Models falter particularly when they are given more complex tasks and when users are looking for specific and highly detailed responses. …
Source: Venture Beat Previously, OpenAI partnered with robotics startup Figure to provide the models powering the latter’s humanoid robots. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Salesforce is using structured representation of image semantics to power programs that synthesize instruction datasets for AI training. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge If you’re looking for indoor activities to keep you entertained this winter, you might want to check out Amazon’s ongoing Blu-ray sale. Now through January 20th, you can pick up three 4K Blu-ray titles for $33 when you add them to your cart, regardless of their sale price. That amounts to $11…
Source: Venture Beat My Arcade revealed its new line of retro consoles, the Gamestation, which come in multiple form factors and launch later this year. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a law that could ban TikTok, it looks like one of its last possible lifelines is unlikely to save it from the impending ouster. TikTok will be banned from the US unless either the Supreme Court blocks the law from taking effect before the…
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Source: The Verge When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter. By implementing new API fees on the network he quickly renamed X, Musk locked out other AI companies, maintaining exclusive…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23951353/STK043_VRG_Illo_N_Barclay_3_Meta.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Meta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become ‘charged’")
Source: The Verge Meta is eliminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs because of the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts” in the US, according to a memo to employees seen by Axios. Meta will also roll back representation goals and end its “diverse slate approach” to hiring. The memo, which…
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Source: The Verge Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, is scaling back its contributions to the WordPress open-source project, according to an announcement on Thursday. The company says it’s decreasing contributions to “match” the amount of time companies like WP Engine spend on the ecosystem, further escalating the tension between Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and…
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Source: The Verge Fortnite Festival, the game’s Rock Band-like music mode where you play along with real songs, is getting local multiplayer for up to four people on PlayStation and Xbox on January 14th. Currently, you can only play Fortnite Festival multiplayer online, but with this change, you’ll be able to get your former Rock…
