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🤖 OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December
💻 Anthropic’s AI can now run and write code
👀 Apple teases “week of announcements” about the Mac starting on Monday
💰 Apple offers $1M bounty for hacking its private AI cloud
📷 Google Photos will now label AI-edited images
📰 Meta signs its first big AI deal for news
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by DecemberLINK
OpenAI plans to unveil its next significant AI model, Orion, by December, prioritizing initial access to partner companies instead of a broad release through ChatGPT.
Internally viewed as the successor to GPT-4, Orion may be hosted on Azure by November, but its naming and release details remain uncertain and subject to change.
This release coincides with OpenAI's transition into a for-profit entity, highlighted by a $6.6 billion funding round and notable changes in its executive team.
💻 Anthropic’s AI can now run and write codeLINK
Anthropic has introduced a JavaScript code sandbox to its Claude AI, allowing users to conduct complex data analysis within the chat interface.
This new feature lets teams across various departments analyze data, including marketing teams gaining insights, sales teams evaluating metrics, and developers creating financial dashboards.
The Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, which supports these capabilities, has enhanced programming performance, outperforming other models in benchmarks like SWE-Bench and TAU-Bench scores.
👀 Apple teases “week of announcements” about the Mac starting on MondayLINK
Apple plans to announce new Mac products starting Monday, as revealed in a less cryptic post by their SVP of Worldwide Marketing.
A teaser video with a glowing Mac logo hints at a series of upcoming announcements, fueling speculation about updates to MacBook Pros, iMacs, and the Mac mini.
Expected upgrades include new M4-series chips for MacBook Pros and iMacs, while the redesigned Mac mini will feature a compact design, internal power supply, and additional USB-C/Thunderbolt ports.
💰 Apple offers $1M bounty for hacking its private AI cloudLINK
Apple is encouraging security analysts to examine the Private Cloud Compute system that handles complex Apple Intelligence requests as part of its efforts to ensure system privacy.
The tech giant's bug bounty program now includes rewards up to $1,000,000 for detecting vulnerabilities in PCC, underpinning its commitment to handling data privacy seriously.
Initial Apple Intelligence features are launching soon with iOS 18.1, while future enhancements like Genmoji and ChatGPT integration appeared in the iOS 18.2 developer beta.
📷 Google Photos will now label AI-edited imagesLINK
Google Photos is adding a new disclosure for images edited with its AI features, like Magic Editor, visible in the "Details" section of the app starting next week.
Despite Google's aim for transparency, the AI-edited photos will not have visual watermarks, making it difficult to immediately recognize them as altered unless users check the metadata.
These changes follow criticism Google faced for incorporating AI editing tools without overt visual indicators, and similar metadata tagging will be used for non-AI features like Best Take.
📰 Meta signs its first big AI deal for newsLINK
Meta has signed a multi-year agreement with Reuters to incorporate Reuters reporting into its AI chatbot for responding to news-related questions, marking a first for the company in licensing news content.
The use of Reuters content in the AI chatbot, which is available on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, will include summaries and links to Reuters articles, with US users seeing links starting Friday.
This development follows a trend of news organizations partnering with AI firms, though Meta simultaneously challenges laws requiring payment to news publishers for their content on social media platforms.
Other news you might like
OpenAI is disbanding yet another AI safety team.LINK
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TSMC Arizona fab delivers 4% more yield than comparable facilities in Taiwan.LINK
Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics.LINK
Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other.LINK
Redditors Are Trying to Poison Google’s AI to Keep Tourists Out of the Good Restaurants.LINK
What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs.LINK
Latest research and tools
Bitwarden SDK: now under the GPLv3 license, allowing developers to integrate Bitwarden's password management services into their applications with more freedom compared to its previous proprietary terms.LINK
Zigler: a tool for seamlessly creating NIFs (Native Implemented Functions) in Elixir using Zig, with automatic type marshalling and memory management, designed to simplify integration of Zig code with the BEAM virtual machine.LINK
Brush: a 3D reconstruction engine compatible with a wide range of systems and devices, aiming to make 3D reconstruction flexible, portable, and fast without the need for specialized hardware, using WebGPU and the Burn framework for cross-platform accessibility.LINK
OpenFeature: a vendor-neutral, community-driven API that simplifies the implementation of feature flags across various development environments without locking into a specific tool.LINK
Rust based AWS Lambda Logs Viewer (TUI): a terminal-based application for easily viewing and navigating AWS Lambda function logs across different profiles and regions, with features for searching, custom date ranges, and caching for improved performance.LINK
Dynamic Models of Gentrification: open access to this research is vital for keeping science available to everyone.LINK
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