The Apple Vision Pro has made my eyes work harder than ever before. It’s not just because I have ultra-sharp, incredibly bright micro-OLED screens right on my face: The Vision Pro relies on eye tracking for navigating visionOS, its new “spatial computing” operating system. If […]
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Apple releases an AI model that can edit images based on text-based commands
Apple isn’t one of the top players in the AI game today, but the company’s new open source AI model for image editing shows what it’s capable of contributing to the space. The model called MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE), which uses multimodal large language models […]
Bluesky has added almost a million users one day after opening to the public
Bluesky, the open source Twitter alternative, has seen a surge in new users just one day after opening its platform up to the public. The service has gained more than 850,000 users bringing its total sign-ups to just over 4 million. The service had been […]
FTC accuses Microsoft of misrepresenting its Activision Blizzard plans after layoffs
One week after Microsoft laid off nearly 2,000 employees in its gaming division, the Federal Trade Commission is accusing Microsoft of contradicting its pledge to allow Activision Blizzard to operate independently post-acquisition. The FTC filed a complaint in a federal appeals court on Wednesday, arguing […]
WhatsApp is preparing to roll out third-party chat support
With a month away from the Digital Markets Act (DMA) deadline, WhatsApp is preparing to allow other messaging networks in its app. In an interview with Wired, Dick Brouwer, an engineering director at WhatsApp, said that the company is ready to offer interoperability on the […]
Lynk forges ahead with public market debut despite SPAC’s dwindling reserves
Satellite-to-phone connectivity provider Lynk Global will head to the public markets via a merger with a shell company led by former professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez. The two companies confirmed the deal on Monday after announcing a non-binding LOI with Rodriguez’s special purpose acquisition company […]
Nintendo believes it’ll sell more Switch consoles than first thought
At almost seven years old, the Nintendo Switch still has life left in it — so much so that Nintendo has upped its predicted sales figures for its current fiscal year. In its third-quarter earnings release, the company announced that it was increasing Switch’s projected […]
AI’s hunger games: A lucrative data market is exploding to feed insatiable LLMs | The AI Beat
AI training data is just the beginning — LLM inference is creating an exploding, lucrative data market to feed AI models.
Samsung chair acquitted in Korean stock manipulation case
Samsung chairman Jay Y. Lee’s legal troubles may be in the rearview mirror as a Korean court acquitted him of stock manipulation and accounting fraud charges over a 2015 merger, The Financial Times has reported. The ruling allows Lee to continue leading Samsung, which saw […]
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