NIST faces turmoil as staff consider quitting over Paul Christiano’s contentious, imminent appointment to a role at the US AI Safety Institute, sources say.
Day: March 8, 2024
India’s smartwatch market in flux as unknown brands challenge heavyweights
India’s smartwatch market has transformed, seemingly overnight. For years, it has been dominated by its homegrown players, while global giants like Apple and Samsung have struggled for presence, amid the hundreds of millions of annual shipments. Suddenly, however, the category has been flooded with unknown […]
Rivian is halting construction of its $5 billion Georgia plant to save money
Rivian generally had a good day yesterday, launching the R2 SUV along with the surprise R3 crossover and dune buggy-esque R3X that were met with general acclaim. Buried in that press release, however, was the news that the automaker is halting production of its $5 […]
Worldcoin says it’s filing legal challenge to Spain’s temporary ban
A German subsidiary involved in Sam Altman’s controvercial crypto blockchain digital identity business, Worldcoin, was reported Friday to have filed a legal challenge against a suspension order from Spain’s data protection authority. Earlier this week it emerged that the Spanish authority, the AEPD, had instructed […]
X allows Premium+ users and organizations to publish articles
X announced a new long-form post format called Articles today. The feature, which is only available to Premium+ subscribers and verified organizations, lets users publish posts with text formatting, other X posts, and embedded videos and images — akin to a post on a WordPress-like […]
Apple is rolling out VisionOS 1.1. with improved personas
Apple released VisionOS 1.1 on Thursday with the most notable feature being improved personas of users. Specifically, the new update improves hair and makeup appearance, neck and mouth representation, and rendering of the eyes for EyeSight, which lets others see your eyes when you’re wearing […]
You can write long-form articles on X if you pay for Premium+
Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main. X now allows verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers to publish long-form “Articles.” The feature adds a basic text-editing interface that includes embedded media and some text formatting options, […]
India’s Election Commission fixes privacy flaws that exposed citizens’ information-seeking data
India’s federal election commission has fixed flaws on its website that exposed data related to citizens’ requests for information related to their voting eligibility status, local political candidates and parties, and technical details about electronic voting machines. India is heading for its next general elections, […]
Worldcoin says it’s filing legal challenge to Spain’s temporary ban
A German subsidiary involved in Sam Altman’s controvercial crypto blockchain digital identity business, Worldcoin, was reported Friday to have filed a legal challenge against a suspension order from Spain’s data protection authority. Earlier this week it emerged that the Spanish authority, the AEPD, had instructed […]
Inflection AI launches new model for Pi chatbot, nearly matches GPT-4
Inflection AI’s latest model, Inflection-2.5, achieved 94% of GPT-4’s performance but took only 40% of compute for training.