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On this day, 23 years ago, Bill Gates announced Tablet PC support from leading manufacturers shortly after proclaiming tablets as the future, yet despite initial excitement, they never achieved mainstream success until the iPad's introduction in 2010.


In today's Techpresso:

⚔️ Tech giants join forces to break Nvidia's dominance

💰 Adam Neumann launches '$500M+ offer' to regain control of WeWork

🎥 OpenAI shares first short films created using Sora

🙃 Google's AI search feature leads users to spam sites

🎁 + 9 other news you might like

🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools

⚔️ Tech giants join forces to break Nvidia's dominanceLINK

  • Google, Intel, and Qualcomm form a consortium to introduce a new open-source platform aimed at challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI chip software.
  • The UXL coalition, including major technology and chip companies, plans to use Intel's OneAPI to create open source software tools for AI development, diversifying away from Nvidia's proprietary CUDA platform.
  • With strategic partners like Amazon and Microsoft, the UXL Foundation aims to finalize technical specifications by the end of the year to establish a versatile and open ecosystem for AI hardware and software.
  • 💰 Adam Neumann launches '$500M+ offer' to regain control of WeWorkLINK

  • Adam Neumann, aiming to prevent the decline of WeWork, has assembled a financing package exceeding $500 million in an attempt to repurchase the company.
  • Despite being ousted from WeWork, Neumann founded the real estate business Flow in 2022, which is valued at approximately $1 billion, and is now making a bid to buy back WeWork.
  • WeWork, which filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. in November with nearly $19 billion in debts, is considering its options amid Neumann's offer to reacquire the company.
  • 🎥 OpenAI shares first short films created using SoraLINK

  • OpenAI has published the first experiences of artists and creatives with the new Sora text-to-image model.
  • Early adopters of Sora share their positive experiences, highlighting its ability to create surreal visuals and aid in the visualization of previously unachievable ideas.
  • The technology is praised for offering freedom from physical laws and budget constraints, enabling artists to explore new possibilities in storytelling and visual art.
  • 🙃 Google's AI search feature leads users to spam sitesLINK

  • Google's Search Generative Experience (SGE), an AI-powered feature, is showing spam and potentially malicious links in its search results, similar to issues observed in its regular search results.
  • The problematic results, identified by SEO expert Lily Ray, are particularly prevalent for long-tail keywords with low volume and limited competition, including branded searches.
  • Google claims to have a robust spam-fighting system in place for its search services, stating that 99 percent of search results are spam-free, yet acknowledges the challenge of evolving spam tactics.
  • Other news you might like

    Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google.LINK

    Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare.LINK

    Canva acquires Affinity, marking the startup's biggest acquisition to date.LINK

    Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief.LINK

    The FBI and CISA want to lead a major crackdown on SQL vulnerabilities.LINK

    Steve Jobs signed Apple business card sells for over $180,000 at auction.LINK

    Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works'.LINK

    Reddit shares surge a day after options launch, set to nearly double IPO price.LINK

    Hunting for 'ghost particles': How CERN plans to search for a better understanding of the Universe.LINK

    Latest research and tools

    Tracecat: an open-source security alert automation and SOAR alternative that simplifies the creation of AI-powered workflows for security teams, supporting both cloud and self-hosted deployments.LINK

    CVE-2024-1086 exploit: a universal local privilege escalation proof-of-concept that works on most Linux kernels between v5.14 and v6.6, designed for Debian, Ubuntu, and KernelCTF, with a success rate of 99.4% on KernelCTF images, requiring specific kernel configurations to operate effectively.LINK

    Deej: an open-source hardware volume mixer that allows users to control the volumes of different applications using physical sliders, compatible with Windows and Linux.LINK

    Nonlinearsolve.jl: introduces efficient and reliable methods for solving nonlinear equations using Julia programming language.LINK

    Hybrid-Net: an AI-powered multimodal project that separates real-time audio sources, generates lyrics, chords, beats, and provides comprehensive music information by leveraging a network of transformer models which influence each other to produce detailed musical analysis and creation tools.LINK

    Is GPT-4 a good data analyst? (2023): gpt-4 shows strong potential in data analysis but still requires human oversight for complex tasks.LINK


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