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🤫 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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