Category: Shorts

Elon Musk tweets, then deletes DMs from Matt Taibbi over his Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi are in a heated dispute, which escalated after Musk posted a DM conversation between the two of them, which he then deleted. The conversation revolved around an issue with Taibbi’s Twitter Files threads being deleted and his employment with…

Elon Musk Says SpaceX’s Starship Spacecraft Is Ready to Launch Soon SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft is ready for launch, with a planned orbital test flight launch trending towards the end of the third week of April. The spacecraft is designed to take astronauts and payloads to deep space, with reusable parts and a massive booster, the…

Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are changing the internet Major tech companies, such as Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, are making language model programs, which were previously only used in test labs, available to the public. These AI tools can answer questions like “How do I install RAM into my PC?” but they lack the…

Google cuts off support for third-party smart displays as Assistant dwindles Google recently announced that they will no longer be providing updates and new features to third-party devices. This move reflects the company’s focus on generative AI technology, such as Bard, and their shift away from the Google Assistant of the past. It also signals…

A ChatGPT client that works with any AI: Poe wants to build the universal Quora’s CEO Adam D’Angelo is leading the development of an app, Poe, that could revolutionize the way people interact with chatbots. It provides easy access to popular bots such as ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude Plus and Claude Instant, Sage, and Dragonfly. Poe…

Pushes back against Elon Musk, says Twitter situation is ‘very frustrating’ Substack, a popular subscription newsletter platform for writers, launched a new feature called Notes last week. Elon Musk responded with a claim that Substack was “trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone” without any evidence. In…

Bing Adds Chat to SwiftKey Beta for Android Microsoft’s SwiftKey app has been enhanced with an AI chatbot, allowing users to type by swiping across letters on the screen to generate words and talk to the AI. Additionally, Google has moved podcasts into YouTube Music and Rakuten has released a Kobo Elipsa 2E, an E…

Are Amazon’s Sidewalk’s privacy protocols ready for the real world? Amazon recently opened its Sidewalk protocol to third-party developers, allowing for the creation of a large mesh network that draws on people’s home internet connections across the US. The service has three layers of encryption and requires developers to meet certain criteria to use its…

Opt-out of Diffusion: This AI Model Can Remove Copyrighted Concepts from Text Researchers have proposed a concept ablation method that can modify generated images from text-to-image models to match a broad anchor concept, such as overwriting Star Wars R2D2 with Robot or Monet paintings with a painting. The method was evaluated on 16 tasks and…

Microsoft sold software to sanctioned Russian companies, including the FSB, according to the US Microsoft has been fined $3.35 million for selling software to sanctioned entities and individuals in Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Russia from 2012 to 2019. The company failed to properly oversee who was buying their software and services, and certain Russian employees…