Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival - On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/amazon-pours-another-4b-into-anthropic-openais-biggest-rival/ #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #darioamodei #anthropic #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #amazon #llms #ai

Plex’s upcoming app redesign is a big swing at going legit - Image: Plex

Plex is beginning to test its “newly r... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/24303282/plex-app-redesign-sonos-debacle

Plex's Upcoming App Redesign is a Big Swing at Going Legit - An anonymous reader shares a report: Plex is beginning to test its "newly reimagin... - https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/11/22/1757247/plexs-upcoming-app-redesign-is-a-big-swing-at-going-legit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #tv

GlobalFoundries gets $1.5 billion subsidy from U.S. gov't after it was fined for violating export laws to China - GlobalFoundries signed a deal to get $1.5 billion under the... - https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/globalfoundries-gets-usd1-5-billion-subsidy-from-u-s-govt-after-it-was-fined-for-violating-export-laws-to-china #techindustry

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview - OCR tech not quite ready for primetime, in this bit of Windows at least Microsoft has dis... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/11/22/microsoft_ocr_preview_photos/

Will AI kill Google? Past predictions of doom were totally wrong. - Past technology revolutions made Google even stronger rather than weaker, as many tech du... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/22/google-monopoly-ai/

Score 4TB of PCIe 4.0 SSD storage for just 5 cents per GB — Crucial's P3 Plus is a Black Friday steal - Crucial P3 Plus 4TB drops to $212.99 ahead of Black Friday.... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/score-4tb-of-pcie-4-0-ssd-storage-for-just-5-cents-per-gb-crucials-p3-plus-is #pccomponents #storage #ssds

How the World's Vital Undersea Data Cables Are Being Targeted - Damage to two undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea this month points to g... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/22/1650214/how-the-worlds-vital-undersea-data-cables-are-being-targeted?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #network

AMD increases official Ryzen 7 9800X3D pricing to 542 Euros in Europe due to exchange rate fluctuations - AMD might be worried about changing prices based on the exc... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-increases-ryzen-7-9800x3d-official-price-to-542-euros-in-europe-due-to-exchange-rate-fluctuations-cpu-is-still-selling-well-over-that-price-regardless #pccomponents #cpus

Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works - The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat c... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/elon-musk-trump.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #governmentefficiencydepartment(us) #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #presidentialelectionof2024 #highnetworthindividuals #trumpdonaldj #mulvaneymick #muskelon

Amazon Doubles Investment in AI Startup Anthropic To $8 Billion - Amazon said on Friday it will invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup Anthro... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/22/1552251/amazon-doubles-investment-in-ai-startup-anthropic-to-8-billion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser - An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI is preparing to launch a frontal assau... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/22/1421209/openai-considers-taking-on-google-with-browser?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

DOJ Antitrust Case Aims To Undo Google-Anthropic Partnership - An anonymous reader quotes a report from PYMNTS: The Justice Department's proposal... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/22/0351253/doj-antitrust-case-aims-to-undo-google-anthropic-partnership?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Documents, CEO Emails - According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft's Copilot tool inadvertently ... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/2315249/microsoft-copilot-customers-discover-it-can-let-them-read-hr-documents-ceo-emails?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Apple Is Reportedly Building a More Conversational Siri Powered By LLMs - According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is developing a new version of Siri powe... - https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/231235/apple-is-reportedly-building-a-more-conversational-siri-powered-by-llms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry - An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Instagram is flooded with hund... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0117253/inside-the-booming-ai-pimping-industry?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

DeepSeek's First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance - An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of ... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/2129207/deepseeks-first-reasoning-model-r1-lite-preview-beats-openai-o1-performance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

'Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine' - AI tools remain prediction engines despite new capabilities, requiring both qualit... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/1517200/generative-ai-is-still-just-a-prediction-machine?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

An Animated Walkthrough of How Large Language Models Work - If you wonder how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and aren’t afraid of getting a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/an-animated-walkthrough-of-how-large-language-models-work/ #artificialintelligence #softwarehacks #neuralnetwork #visualizer #gpt #llm #ai

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 - Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit  Professor Thomas Eugene K... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/rip_thomas_kurtz/