Deal lets ChatGPT maker use all articles from Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Times and Sunday Times for AI model developmentChatGPT developer OpenAI has signed a deal to bring news content from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Times and the Sunday Times to the artificial intelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday. Neither party disclosed a dollar figure for the deal.The deal will give OpenAI access to current and archived content from all of News Corp's publications. The deal comes weeks after the AI heavyweight signed a deal with the Financial Times to license its content for the development of AI models. Earlier this year, OpenAI inked a similar contract with Axel Springer, the parent company of Business Insider and Politico. Continue reading...
Chipmaker reports strong demand and higher-than-expected revenue even as other companies spend to develop their own chipsNvidia reported record quarterly revenue Wednesday on the back of the explosion in corporate appetite for artificial intelligence.The next industrial revolution has begun - companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia ... to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. Continue reading...
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent on (#6N04E)
I am not a typo' campaign is calling for technology companies to make autocorrect less western- and white-focused'People whose names get mangled by autocorrect have urged technology companies to fix the problem faster, with one person whose name gets switched to Satan" saying: I am tired of it."People with Irish, Indian and Welsh names are among those calling for improvements to the systems that operate on phones and computers as part of the I am not a typo" campaign. Continue reading...
Ciaran Martin says US warning that China is targeting key infrastructure should be taken more seriouslyThe UK is not paying enough attention to a gamechanging" shift in China's cyber-espionage tactics towards infiltrating critical infrastructure including energy and communications networks, a former head of Britain's cybersecurity agency has warned.Ciaran Martin, the ex-chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, said a warning from the US this year that Chinese state-backed hackers were targeting key sectors was a pivotal moment in Beijing's approach to cyberwarfare. Continue reading...
by Sally Weale Education correspondent on (#6N01Z)
Daisy Greenwell from Smartphone-Free Childhood says move likely to have domino effect in other parts of UKThis is mega!" said Daisy Greenwell from the Smartphone-Free Childhood campaign. We are absolutely thrilled and we believe it's going to have a domino effect."She was reacting to news that St Albans in Hertfordshire is attempting to become the first UK city to go smartphone-free for all children under 14. Continue reading...
Children used to obsessively put CDs and 7-inches on repeat, but streaming means they need digital devices and parental permission to play music. And there's little being done to helpMy daughter is nine years old. When I was her age, in 1989, I had my own small cassette player and a beloved pile of my own tapes - brand new, or made up of songs from the radio - that I could listen to whenever I wanted. The same went for my parents' modest CD collection (Genesis's Invisible Touch was awesome; their three Lionel Richie albums were boring). There were a few vinyl records knocking about and there were at least two radios - invariably set to Capital FM - that I could turn on whenever.My daughter has none of these things. The only way she can access music is by making me get my phone out and play a song on my Spotify account. The inconvenience is trifling, but more painful and alarming is the growing gap between us when it comes to musical experience. Continue reading...
Steven Anderegg allegedly used the Stable Diffusion AI model to generate photos; if convicted, he could face up to 70 years in prisonThe FBI has charged a US man with creating more than 10,000 sexually explicit and abusive images of children, which he allegedly generated using a popular artificial intelligence tool. Authorities also accused the man, 42-year-old Steven Anderegg, of sending pornographic AI-made images to a 15-year-old boy over Instagram.Anderegg crafted about 13,000 hyper-realistic images of nude and semi-clothed prepubescent children", prosecutors stated in an indictment released on Monday, often images depicting children touching their genitals or being sexually abused by adult men. Evidence from the Wisconsin man's laptop allegedly showed he used the popular Stable Diffusion AI model, which turns text descriptions into images.In the US, call or text the Childhelp abuse hotline on 800-422-4453 or visit their website for more resources and to report child abuse or DM for help. For adult survivors of child abuse, help is available at ascasupport.org. In the UK, the NSPCC offers support to children on 0800 1111, and adults concerned about a child on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. In Australia, children, young adults, parents and teachers can contact the Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800, or Bravehearts on 1800 272 831, and adult survivors can contact Blue Knot Foundation on 1300 657 380. Other sources of help can be found at Child Helplines International Continue reading...
Rishi Sunak says 16 international firms have committed, but standards have been criticised for lacking teethThe first 16 companies have signed up to voluntary artificial intelligence safety standards introduced at the Bletchley Park summit, Rishi Sunak has said on the eve of the follow-up event in Seoul.The standards, however, have been criticised for lacking teeth, with signatories committing only to work toward information sharing, invest in cybersecurity and prioritise research into societal risks.AmazonAnthropicCohereGoogle / Google DeepMindG42IBMInflection AIMetaMicrosoftMistral AINaverOpen AISamsung ElectronicsTechnology Innovation InstitutexAIZhipu.ai Continue reading...
What am I doing with my one wild and precious life? Struggling to follow fast, frantic cookery instructions and developing a whole new swearing habitI have been following the rise of the bao bun very keenly - the pallid little puffballs are enjoying a boom in Britain's snack sector - on account of the fact that I learned to make them myself. It took me a long time and made me question a lot of things, including my soundness of mind. For anyone without teenagers in their house, there is a new frontier in knowledge exchange, which is the TikTok recipe. It's like a regular recipe, except with a twist: it's also like the world's hardest IQ test.The posters are mainly American and the dishes are mainly Korean (or air-fryer-based). The TikTokkers will tell you in broad terms what the ingredients are, but incredibly fast and often with swearing. Think of the craft segments on Blue Peter - painstakingly described, with one they made earlier - then make it 150 times faster and much bluer. Continue reading...
by Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor on (#6MYSK)
Smart display is the control centre for Alexa-connected devices anyone in the home can useAmazon's latest Alexa device feels like the missing piece in making a home fully smart and acts as a hub for controlling lights, doors, cameras, timers and heating.The Echo Hub arrives ready to be the touchscreen controller for your smart home, and is a cut-price option for a device that usually has to be either professionally installed, costing thousands, or a DIY job that requires more than a little expertise. Continue reading...
Employers in UK, one of 15 countries studied, willing to pay 14% wage premium for jobs requiring AI skillsThe sectors of the global economy most heavily exposed to artificial intelligence (AI) are witnessing a marked productivity increase and command a significant wage premium, according to a report.Boosting hopes that AI might help lift the global economy out of a 15-year, low-growth trough, a PwC study found productivity growth was almost five times as rapid in parts of the economy where AI penetration was highest than in less exposed sectors. Continue reading...
Software giant reveals upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, pitching its features as a virtual photographic memoryMicrosoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you're doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from big tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home. Continue reading...
Governments have made insufficient regulatory progress, godfathers' of the technology say before summitThe world is ill-prepared for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, according to a group of senior experts including two godfathers" of AI, who warn that governments have made insufficient progress in regulating the technology.A shift by tech companies to autonomous systems could massively amplify" AI's impact and governments need safety regimes that trigger regulatory action if products reach certain levels of ability, said the group. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groupsThe Facebook and Instagram owner Meta approved a series of AI-manipulated political adverts during India's election that spread disinformation and incited religious violence, according to a report shared exclusively with the Guardian.Facebook approved adverts containing known slurs towards Muslims in India, such as let's burn this vermin" and Hindu blood is spilling, these invaders must be burned", as well as Hindu supremacist language and disinformation about political leaders. Continue reading...
All five systems tested were found to be highly vulnerable' to attempts to elicit harmful responsesGuardrails to prevent artificial intelligence models behind chatbots from issuing illegal, toxic or explicit responses can be bypassed with simple techniques, UK government researchers have found.The UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) said systems it had tested were highly vulnerable" to jailbreaks, a term for text prompts designed to elicit a response that a model is supposedly trained to avoid issuing. Continue reading...
Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impactYour email inbox is full of spam. Your letterbox is full of junk mail. Now, your web browser has its own affliction: slop.Slop" is what you get when you shove artificial intelligence-generated material up on the web for anyone to view. Continue reading...
AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.comGoogle announced this week that it would begin the international rollout of its new artificial intelligence-powered search feature, called AI Overviews. When billions of people search a range of topics from news to recipes to general knowledge questions, what they see first will now be an AI-generated summary.Google touted AI Overviews at its annual I/O developer conference as a way of delivering customers quick answers and simplifying the online search experience, but it also has another effect on the way that people engage with the internet: keeping users, and advertisers, on Google.com. It's a new era in Google's years-long quest for your attention. Continue reading...
The wellness project claims to help users make smarter food choices' based on world-leading science'. But many scientists claim its fee-based services are no better than generic adviceYour body is unique, so is the food you need." This is the central credo of personalised nutrition (PN), as professed by its leading UK advocate, the health science company Zoe. Since its launch in April 2022, 130,000 people have subscribed to the service - at one point it had a waiting list of 250,000 - which uses a pin prick blood test, stool sample and a wearable continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to suggest smarter food choices for your body".Like other companies working in this space, Zoe has all the hallmarks of serious science. Its US equivalent Levels counts among its advisers many respected scientists, including Robert Lustig, famous for raising the alarm about the harms of refined carbohydrates such as sugar. Zoe is fronted by King's College London scientist Tim Spector and claims to be created with world-leading science". Continue reading...
Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR's CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad PeopleFor nearly two weeks, an esoteric debate has raged on X, formerly Twitter: could users concerned about privacy and security trust the messaging app Signal, or was the Telegram platform a better alternative? X's chatbot, Grok AI, described the trending moment as Telegram v Signal: a crypto clash".Signal is an app for sending end-to-end-encrypted messages to individuals and small groups. Telegram offers broadcast channels and messaging but is not end-to-end encrypted by default. Debates over their relative merits have popped up over the years, though largely within the confines of online spaces inhabited by cybersecurity, cryptography, privacy and policy geeks. This time, the conversation came to broader attention - Elon Musk's following of 183 million - due to X's most notorious capability: mutating isolated facts into viral conspiracy theories for the entertainment of rage-riddled crowds. As a bit player, I got a ringside seat to the manufactured controversy. Continue reading...
Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to comeThis week, artificial intelligence caught up with the future - or at least Hollywood's idea of it from a decade ago.It feels like AI from the movies," wrote the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, of his latest system, an impressive virtual assistant. To underline his point he posted a single word on X - her" - referring to the 2013 film starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with a futuristic version of Siri or Alexa, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Continue reading...
The photographer and her husband came across an abandoned boat while out walking and took the opportunity to float a surreal ideaEvery September, Carla Vermeend and her husband go on holiday to Terschelling island, inthe Netherlands.It has lots of nature, right in the middle of theWadden Sea, whichis listed by Unescoas aworld heritage site," says Vermeend, a Dutch photographer. During their visit in 2014, the couple were walking bythe sea together. Continue reading...
News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessibleThe news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan's outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp spinach, her period in office beset by economic under performance, social problems and protests.Water spinach looks at water spinach. Turns out that water spinach isn't just a name," says the presenter, in an extended metaphor about Tsai being Hollow Tsai" - a pun related to the Mandarin word for water spinach. Continue reading...
Tigran Gambaryan faces allegations of serious criminality' on behalf of world's largest cryptocurrency exchangeA Nigerian court has ruled that Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance executive detained on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, can face trial on behalf of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.In a judgment in Abuja on Friday - Gambaryan's 40th birthday - the presiding judge, Emeka Nwite, denied the American national bail, saying he was likely to abscond. Continue reading...
America's military-industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the toneOn 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city's biggest convention hall welcomed America's military-industrial complex, its top technology companies and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that's not how they would describe it.It was the inaugural AI Expo for National Competitiveness", hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project - better known as the techno-economic" thinktank created by the former Google CEO and current billionaire Eric Schmidt. The conference's lead sponsor was Palantir, a software company co-founded by Peter Thiel that's best known for inspiring 2019 protests against its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) at the height of Trump's family separation policy. Currently, Palantir is supplying some of its AI products to the Israel Defense Forces. Continue reading...
Benediktas Gylys admits he was surprised by the rowdy behavior that came from the exhibit connecting people in the two citiesThe artist behind the controversial Portal" art exhibit that visually linked New York and Dublin in real time, but was then closed due to rowdy and extreme behavior by the public using it, has admitted he was surprised by the reaction.Benediktas Gylys also vowed to continue with his project, which has the aim of connecting people and communities all over the world and is hoped to reopen soon. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Paul Raffile held webinar where he said app failed to protect children, and his offer was rescinded hours laterMeta revoked a job offer to a prominent cyber-intelligence analyst immediately after he criticized Instagram for failing to protect children online.Paul Raffile had been offered a job as a human exploitation investigator focusing on issues such as sextortion and human trafficking. He had participated in a 24 April webinar on safeguarding against financial sextortion schemes, during which he criticized Instagram for allowing children to fall prey to scammers and offered possible solutions. Continue reading...
Company's social media platforms, which also include Instagram, may have addictive effects, says European Commission Business live - latest updatesThe European Commission has opened an investigation into the owner of Facebook and Instagram over concerns that the platforms are creating addictive behaviour among children and damaging mental health.The EU executive said Meta may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA), a landmark law passed by the bloc last summer that makes digital companies large and small liable for disinformation, shopping scams, child abuse and other online harms. Continue reading...
OpenAI's updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why?Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight caveat that it felt a lot like the magician was a horny 12-year-old boy who had just watched the Spike Jonze movie Her.If you aren't up to speed on GPT-4o (the o stands for omni") it's basically an all-singing, all-dancing, all-seeing version of the original chatbot. You can now interact with it the same way you'd interact with a human, rather than via text-based questions. It can give you advice, it can rate your jokes, it can describe your surroundings, it can banter with you. It sounds human. It feels like AI from the movies," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a blog post on Monday. Getting to human-level response times and expressiveness turns out to be a big change." Continue reading...
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How can one broom tear apart a Canadian curling community? John Cullen investigates in Broomgate. Plus: five of the best post-apocalyptic podcasts Don't get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereBroomgate
Court order compels Google subsidiary to block local access to 32 videos of Glory to Hong Kong, judged to be prohibited contentAlphabet's YouTube on Tuesday said it would comply with a court decision and block access inside Hong Kong to 32 video links deemed prohibited content, in what critics say is a blow to freedoms in the financial hub amid a security clampdown.The action follows a government application granted by Hong Kong's court of appeal requesting the ban of a protest anthem called Glory to Hong Kong. The judges warned that dissidents seeking to incite secession could weaponize the song for use against the state. Continue reading...
Ilya Sutskever helped orchestrate dramatic firing and rehiring of ChatGPT maker's CEO last yearOpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is leaving the startup at the center of today's artificial intelligence boom.After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI," Sutskever said in a post on X. Continue reading...
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Almost all children have them by the time they are 11 years old - and some get them at four. But are they ruining childhoods? Blake Montgomery reportsThis episode was first played on our global news podcast, Today in Focus.Conversations around if and when children should be given mobile phones have being going on for years. But recently the question has been catapulted to the forefront of national debate. Continue reading...
Maryland employees at first US Apple store to unionize take historic step as progress for a first contract has stagnatedWorkers at the first Apple store in the US to have unionized, in Towson, Maryland, have voted to authorize a strike as progress in bargaining for a first contract has stagnated.They could be the first Apple retail store workers to ever go on strike. Continue reading...
by Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor on (#6MTD7)
Apple sets new standard in screen and power but Pro model verges away from consumer tablet needsApple's latest iPad Pro is thinner and lighter, and has a stupendous new OLED screen, plus oodles of power to do practically anything. But it is no longer just the super-premium iPad - it is also aiming to be an impressive tool for the creative industry.It still looks and acts like an iPad, ready to do regular iPad things such as browse the web, watch TV or chat to your family on the other side of the country. But to do only that with a machine this advanced is total overkill - Apple has many other iPad models suited to that sort of thing. Continue reading...
by Tom Perkins in Green Township, Michigan, and Amy H on (#6MT9C)
Michigan factory making battery components for electric cars may offer an economic lifeline, but for some residents there's a problem: the parent company is in ChinaSet among green rolling hills and tall pines, Lori Brock's storybook farm encapsulates northern Michigan. A five-day-old mare bucks around a pen, while small black pigs roam through a barn and donkeys graze in fields bordered by white fences.It is a bucolic way of life in Green Township, but one that Brock and many of her neighbours believe could be threatened by an unlikely adversary - China's Communist party. Continue reading...
by Dan Milmo Global technology editor and Nick Robins on (#6MSXK)
Tech giant also reveals AI assistant in progress, currently called Project Astra, and AI video generator Veo at annual I/O conferenceGoogle will use artificial intelligence to return summarized responses to search engine queries from US users as it continues to infuse generative AI into its most widely used products.The company has been testing AI overviews" that appear at the tops of search results, summaries created by its Gemini AI model that appear alongside the traditional link-based search results. Continue reading...
System can operate directly in speech, speeding up responses and noticing voice quirks, but it still needs the power of SiriIn the year and a half since the launch of ChatGPT, one nagging question has only got more pressing: if AI can do this, why is my phone's assistant still so bad?On Monday, the gulf grew larger still, as OpenAI announced a new model called GPT-4o - the o' stands for Omni - which gives the chatbot new abilities to understand and create audio, video, and still images. Continue reading...
Charles Elson accused EV company of strong-arming law firm where he consulted over his legal brief opposing Musk's payA leading professor of corporate governance has accused Tesla of threatening to fire one of its law firms over his objections to Elon Musk's claim to a massive $56bn compensation package.Retired professor Charles Elson of the University of Delaware alleged in a legal filing on Monday that Holland & Knight, a law firm that he has worked for over close to three decades, told him that Tesla threatened to end its relationship with the firm unless he dropped plans to submit a legal brief to a shareholder lawsuit opposing the controversial payout, the largest in US history. Continue reading...
The head of Amazon's most profitable and fastest-growing division will leave the company on 3 June after three yearsThe chief of the wildly profitable Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing unit will step down next month after a three-year term.Adam Selipsky, 57, who is also a member of Amazon's team advising CEO , will leave the company on 3 June, according to an Amazon statement on Tuesday. He will be replaced by Matt Garman, a senior vice-president who has overseen sales and marketing at AWS. Continue reading...
After a less happy time attached to triple-A games, Jayanth has settled on smaller, freer developers - and is using that freedom to speak up for causes bigger companies would rather ignoreCan a video game writer do her best work at the industry's biggest scale? Well: Meghna Jayanth is fine where she is. Last year, with Outerloop Games, she released Thirsty Suitors, a fluorescent fusion of messy flirting and sick skating; coming up next is All Rise, a climate action courtroom drama. These are indie games - Thirsty Suitors' hero is a queer Desi skater and the villain is her feelings; of course it is an indie game - and Jayanth, one of the star video game writers of her generation, is perfectly at home here, where a modest budget is the trade-off for making joyful games about colonialism, identity and sexuality, with people whose values align with hers.The money is smaller, and that hurts getting the work noticed. It was tough to come out when we did," Jayanth says of Thirsty Suitors. People were still playing Baldur's Gate III, because it's huge. The average gamer on Steam plays four games a year. That's the real problem for most indie studios: how do you reach people without millions and a marketing budget?" Continue reading...
Thanks to a new act that could reshape the internet, TikTok, Instagram and other platforms will need to tame' harmful content and algorithms Don't get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereThe Online Safety Act in the UK is, quietly, one of the most important pieces of legislation to have come out of this government. Admittedly, the competition is slim. But as time goes by, and more and more of the act begins to take effect, we're starting to see how it will reshape the internet.From our story last week:Social media firms have been told to tame aggressive algorithms" that recommend harmful content to children, as part of Ofcom's new safety codes of practice.The children's safety codes, introduced as part of the Online Safety Act, let Ofcom set new, tight rules for internet companies and how they can interact with children. It calls on services to make their platforms child-safe by default or implement robust age checks to identify children and give them safer versions of the experience.The Goldilocks theory of policy is simple enough. If Mummy Bear says your latest government bill is too hot, and Daddy Bear says your latest government bill is too cold, then you can tuck in knowing that the actual temperature is just right.Unfortunately, the Goldilocks theory sometimes fails. You learn that what you actually have in front of you is less a perfectly heated bowl of porridge and more a roast chicken you popped in the oven still frozen: frosty on the inside, burnt on the outside, and harmful to your health if you try to eat it.The code is weak on design features, however. While the research shows livestreaming and direct messaging are high risk, there are few mandatory mitigations included to tackle them. Similarly, the requirement for measures to have an existing evidence base fails to incentivise new approaches to safety ... How can you provide evidence that something does not work if you don't try it?As we celebrate the arrival of the draft code, we should already be demanding that the holes in it are fixed, the exceptions readdressed, the lobbyists contained.Chain-of-thought responses from language models improve performance across most benchmarks. However, it remains unclear to what extent these performance gains can be attributed to human-like task decomposition or simply the greater computation that additional tokens allow. We show that transformers can use meaningless filler tokens (eg, ......') in place of a chain of thought to solve two hard algorithmic tasks they could not solve when responding without intermediate tokens. Continue reading...
A new Netflix docuseries explores how the site that enabled married people to have affairs devolved into chaos back in 2015In theory, the internet promised, among other things, a solution to the age-old conundrum of finding a date. If you wanted romantic partnership, maybe you'd check out eHarmony. For fun and flings, try Tinder. If you wanted to narrow down the potential pool, there were Farmers Only and Christian Mingle, among other demographic-specific sites. And if you were married and wanted to have a clandestine affair, you could make an account on Ashley Madison.At least, that was the pitch. From its founding in 2002 until the summer of 2015, Ashley Madison, so-called for the two most popular girls names, billed itself as the premier destination for adulterers - no judgment, no risks, no strings attached other than the payments required to secure enough credits" to talk to other users. The Toronto-based company, founded by Darren Morgenstern based on a statistic that 30% of people on existing dating sites were already married, promised a certain fantasy, particularly aimed at men: a list of women ready and willing to have an affair; a secret good time outside the bounds of one's partnership; self-proclaimed extensive security measures to prevent torpedoing one's domestic life. The company's CEO, a Canadian businessman named Noel Biderman, appeared on news programs and daytime talkshows with his wife, touting the site as a way to resuscitate partnerships by covertly meeting one's extramarital needs while boasting of his own monogamous marriage. The site's tagline was simple and cheeky: Life is short. Have an affair." And it was popular - by 2015, the company had launched in 40 countries and claimed more than 37 million users. Continue reading...
Tech company reveals new flagship model that is the future of interaction between ourselves and the machines'OpenAI announced on Monday that it was launching its new flagship artificial intelligence model, called GPT-4o, as well as updates that included a new desktop service and advances in its voice assistant capabilities.Chief technology officer, Mira Murati, appeared on stage to a cheering crowd in the OpenAI offices, touting the new model as a step forward in AI. The new model will bring the faster, more accurate GPT-4 AI model to free users, where it was previously reserved for paid customers. Continue reading...
Could office management software such as Slack and Notion optimise your relationship? A surprising number of people are trying it outName: Office romance.Age: Recently upgraded. Continue reading...
Developer Supergiant Games has released its hotly anticipated sequel to 2020's Hades in an early-access, unfinished state - but its powers are already godlikeTime comes for us all, and in Hades II, even the gods are not spared its wrath. This epic Greek-mythology-themed action game is the first sequel by arthouse studio Supergiant Games, meaning it has the tough task of surpassing a progenitor that won countless awards and widespread critical acclaim. Fortunately, time is on the side of the developers: while you can buy Hades II right now, it's under the guise of early access", meaning that there's still some placeholder content in here. Its creators are amassing feedback from players in the hope of eventually releasing a finished game that lives up to the impossible hype.Perhaps the closest parallel to what Hades represents within the world of video games is Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad, which came on the heels of her highly regarded interpretation of The Odyssey. Where Wilson's work helps recontextualise Greek myth for modern audiences, the Hades series has the audacious aim of expanding those myths. The first game starred Zagreus, son of Hades, a rarely cited figure from the pantheon who sought to escape the grasp of the underworld. Hades II takes a similar route, placing players in the shoes of Melinoe, a character so obscure that scholars muse that she may be a syncretisation of Persephone. Esoteric figures like these are fertile ground for Supergiant Games, which has set up a familial drama that's only possible when it involves a cadre of bickering gods. Continue reading...
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