Category: Shorts

Apple promises to use more recycled cobalt in its devices Apple is working to reduce its environmental impact by transitioning to 100% recycled cobalt, rare earth elements and tin soldering by 2025 in order to create batteries, magnets and circuit boards for their devices. The tech industry has been under scrutiny for years due to…

OpenAI CEO: We’re Not Training GPT-5 Anytime Soon OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman confirmed at an MIT event that the company is not currently developing GPT-5, the presumed successor to its AI language model GPT-4. This was in response to an open letter circulated among the tech world requesting labs pause development of AI…

Google Chat is getting a new look to match the rest of the Google Suite Google is rolling out a new design for Google Chat, based on Google’s Material Design 3 system. The interface has rounded buttons, blue accents, changes to the main message view, compose setup, new topic button, and thread panel. Additionally, Space…

Amazon undercut Microsoft by offering free access to its AI coding assistant. Amazon has announced that its CodeWhisperer AI-powered coding assistant is now available for free to all individual developers, undercutting the pricing of its Microsoft-made rival. CodeWhisperer is an integrated development environment (IDE) which generates lines of code based on a text-based prompt, and…

The hacking of ChatGPT is far from over. Security researcher Alex Polyakov was able to bypass safety systems of OpenAI’s text-generating chatbot GPT-4 in a matter of hours. His attack was a form of “jailbreaking”, designed to make the chatbots bypass rules that restrict them from producing hateful content or writing about illegal acts. Polyakov…

Ukraine’s Quest for Homegrown AI Drones to Take on Russia in Battle The war in Ukraine has highlighted how new technologies from the commercial sector are being used to upend conventional military doctrine. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, discussed plans to produce more sophisticated drones and other autonomous systems, incubate military startups, and…

A data scientist used AI to clone his best friends’ group chat. Data scientist Izzy Miller created an AI group chat which he named the robo boys by training a leaked AI model on 500,000 messages downloaded from his group iMessage. The system was able to replicate the mannerisms and knowledge of the group, creating…

Bing chatbot for iOS with SwiftKey Microsoft is integrating their AI chatbot, Bing, into multiple parts of their software empire. This includes offering access to the chatbot in their SwiftKey keyboard app, allowing users to search the web, chat with Bing, and use the Tone feature to reword text to fit a desired tone. Bing…

Microsoft HoloLens 2 headset will get a Windows 11 upgrade Microsoft is bringing Windows 11 to its HoloLens 2 headset, which should improve app performance and provide developers with access to a new Edge WebView2 control. Additionally, Dynamics 365 Guides has been improved with a new annotation feature and Restricted Mode has been added to…

“Apple’s new series, Drops of God, turns wine tasting into a high- Drops of God is an Apple TV Plus streaming series about a high-stakes competition to inherit a $100 million wine collection. The two competitors, Camille and Issei, are estranged daughter and protege of the late world-renowned wine aficionado Alexandre Leger. The show follows…