It’s a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp.
- A new report from Politico suggests a “billionaire-backed network” of Silicon Valley-linked AI “advisors” are working to control the regulatory agenda in Washington D.C.
Google says it will defend users in a legal setting if copyright issues arise with their generative artificial intelligence. It joins the ranks of other big tech players who have done the same.
“Put simply: if customers are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks…
Silicon Valley has bet big on generative AI but it’s not totally clear whether that bet will pay off.
Imagine yourself as a single cap on a keyboard. Perhaps you’re an oft-used letter like “A” or instead the lonely, remote “~” key. If you’re one of the former, you wince every time that giant hand looms over you, the hammer falling with inexorable speed toward your head.
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You don’t have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own “utopian” metropolises, before—inevitably—everything goes to hell. Now several titans of Silicon Valley are hoping they can get their way with their own dream city that,…
Right on cue, Meta has shared its latest AI drop with the world, and this time, the company is letting anybody get their hands on a bot that will write, debug, and describe code in a multitude of coding languages.
Meta’s language-centric LlaMA AI will soon find itself in the company of a nerdier, coding wiz brother. The company’s next AI release will reportedly be a big coding machine meant to compete against the proprietary software from the likes of OpenAI and Google. The model could see a release as soon as next week.