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Joe Biden gave federal agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from government devices earlier this week.
OpenAI, the makers of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, has practically become the tech world’s go-to for implementing AI. On Wednesday the company announce it’s making it easier for developers to jam large language models down the pipe of every app and site who wants it. But more than that, it wants to let any company that ends…
Have you ever used TikTok for such a long time that you felt like your brain was going to melt and leak out of your ears? Well TikTok now has a plan (albeit certainly not foolproof) to prevent teens and children using the app from endlessly scrolling. In the next few weeks, all users under 18 years old will receive a…
It seems like just yesterday that Meta was emphasizing the importance of slow and responsible AI development, and rolling out its large language model only to eligible researchers. But actually it was Friday. Now, just four days later, the company has seemingly abandoned the “AI for researchers alone” tack and…
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The large language model AI bandwagon is getting awfully full lately. Now Snap, the company that owns Snapchat, announced Monday it’s shoving an AI into its app so that users who are really bored talking with friends and real humans can instead have a friendly conversation with a somewhat unhinged digital tool.
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he gave employees one week to turn verification into a paid service. To many, the idea that anyone would pay for a blue check on Twitter seemed absurd, and even undermined the very idea of verification. The joke may be on us, it turns out.
With Elon Musk’s Twitter making an absolute mess with paid verification and Twitter Blue, rival Meta has stepped up to the plate with a similarly ludicrous plan to have users pay for the privilege of proving they are who they say they are on Facebook and Instagram. More than that, Meta is advertising those who pay…