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In today's Techpresso:

🤫 Facebook’s top secret ‘Project Ghostbusters’

🗝️ Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel

💥 Databricks unveils DBRX, the most powerful open source LLM yet

🤖 Grok AI will be available for all X Premium users this week

💼 US charges KuCoin crypto exchange with anti-money laundering failures

🎁 + 7 other news you might like

🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools

🤫 Facebook’s top secret ‘Project Ghostbusters’LINK

  • Facebook secretly analyzed user data from Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube through a covert initiative called 'Project Ghostbusters' to understand competitor site usage.
  • The project, which ran between 2016 and 2019 at CEO Mark Zuckerberg's direction, involved decrypting SSL-protected traffic to gather analytics on competitors.
  • Internal concerns were raised within Facebook about the ethics of intercepting encrypted data, despite the company's public defense that the plaintiffs’ claims in the lawsuit are baseless.
  • 🗝️ Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says IntelLINK

  • Microsoft's transition into a new era of AI-powered PCs will necessitate the inclusion of a Copilot key, according to Intel's recent statements.
  • The Copilot key is a significant component of Microsoft's strategy for AI PCs, signaling a deeper integration of AI functionalities directly into the hardware of Windows computers.
  • Intel's announcement underscores the collaborative push by major tech companies towards enhancing PCs with AI capabilities, highlighting the Copilot key as a cornerstone of this new generation of computing.
  • 💥 Databricks unveils DBRX, the most powerful open source LLM yetLINK

  • Databricks released DBRX, an open source large language model that outperformed Meta's Llama 2 and other models in various benchmarks.
  • DBRX's development, costing about $10 million and involving months of work by a team of engineers and executives, aims to challenge the closed model approach by promoting transparency and innovation.
  • The model utilizes a 'mixture of experts' architecture with about 136 billion parameters and emphasizes data quality and efficiency in training and operation.
  • 🤖 Grok AI will be available for all X Premium users this weekLINK

  • Elon Musk announced that the AI chatbot Grok will be available to all Premium subscribers of the platform formerly known as Twitter, now called X, expanding access beyond the higher-end Premium+ tier.
  • The introduction of Grok to a wider subscriber base aims to compete with other AI chatbots and potentially increase X's subscriber numbers amid declining platform usage and revenue from advertisers.
  • Grok distinguishes itself by addressing topics and questions considered off-limits for other AI chatbots and can access real-time data from X, offering unique responses.
  • 💼 US charges KuCoin crypto exchange with anti-money laundering failuresLINK

  • U.S. federal prosecutors charged KuCoin, a major cryptocurrency exchange, for breaching anti-money laundering laws and not properly vetting customers since 2017.
  • KuCoin, without registering with the U.S. Treasury Department, illegally courted U.S. customers and lacked necessary identity verification processes.
  • Founders of KuCoin, Chun Gan and Ke Tang, face charges of conspiracy and remain unaccounted for, alongside a civil lawsuit from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission against the exchange.
  • Other news you might like

    Anthropic's Claude 3 replaces OpenAI's GPT-4 as most popular user-rated LLM.LINK

    OpenAI has new features in the pipeline for GPT-4 and DALL-E 3.LINK

    US companies invest big in AI, but measuring success remains a challenge.LINK

    Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks.LINK

    New world record for internet speed is 4.5 million times faster than broadband.LINK

    MIT researchers showcase novel method for super-fast AI image generation.LINK

    Google reveals the nastiest zero-days it tracked this year.LINK

    Latest research and tools

    Egui 0.27: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust that improves hit test accuracy, enhances menu interactions, and introduces more styling and customization options for web and native applications.LINK

    GPT-4V(ision) Unsuitable for Clinical Care and Education: An Evaluation: the study claims that GPT-4V is not reliable enough for use in healthcare and educational settings.LINK

    TinyMCE: a web-based JavaScript WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor which is moving its license from MIT to GPL.LINK

    StaticSiteGen: a static site generator that utilizes Jinja2 for templating in Markdown, HTML, or text, lists all pages in a directory on index pages, and automatically prettifies the output HTML.LINK


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