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📰 OpenAI signs landmark agreement with Condé Nast
🧠 Microsoft releases new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more
🤔 AWS CEO tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over
⚖️ Google to face trial over Chrome’s data collection
🕸️ Meta deploys new web crawlers that bypass scraping blocks
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
📰 OpenAI signs landmark agreement with Condé NastLINK
OpenAI announced a new media partnership with Condé Nast to enhance search features using their SearchGPT prototype, aiming to make finding information and reliable content sources faster and more intuitive. The partnership has raised transparency issues, particularly among Condé Nast's unionized workers, who are worried about the impact on journalism and the lack of clear details on the agreement. This deal occurs as Wall Street expresses growing concern over a potential AI bubble, with investors questioning the monetization and viability of AI technologies in the current market.
🧠 Microsoft releases new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and moreLINK
Microsoft introduced three new open-source AI models, named mini-instruct, MoE-instruct, and vision-instruct, which excel in logical reasoning and support multiple languages but face challenges in factual accuracy and safety.
The Phi series aims to deliver highly efficient AI models for commercial and scientific purposes using quality training data, though specifics of the Phi-3.5 training process remain undisclosed by Microsoft.
All the new Phi 3.5 models are accessible under the MIT license on Hugging Face and Microsoft's Azure AI Studio, but they require specialized GPU hardware like NVIDIA A100, A6000, or H100 for optimal performance.
🤔 AWS CEO tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes overLINK
A leaked recording revealed that AWS CEO Matt Garman believes software developers may soon stop coding as artificial intelligence takes over many of their tasks.
Garman's remarks, shared during an internal chat in June, were intended as a positive forecast rather than a dire warning for software engineers, emphasizing new opportunities and skills.
Garman highlighted that developers should focus more on understanding customer needs and innovation, rather than just writing code, as AI tools increasingly manage the technical aspects.
⚖️ Google to face trial over Chrome’s data collectionLINK
Google will face a class action lawsuit accused of collecting Chrome users' data without their consent, after a federal appeals court reversed a 2022 dismissal that failed to evaluate Google's disclosures for user understanding.
Filed in 2020, the lawsuit claims Google collected data such as browsing history and IP addresses from Chrome users, irrespective of whether they enabled the Chrome sync feature.
The federal appeals court decided that the lower court should reconsider whether users genuinely understood that they were consenting to data collection, returning the case for further review.
🕸️ Meta deploys new web crawlers that bypass scraping blocksLINK
Meta has introduced new web crawling bots designed to collect data for training its AI models and related products without being easily blocked by website owners.
These new bots, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-ExternalFetcher, have features that potentially bypass the traditional robots.txt file, making website owners' efforts to block them less effective.
Meta's bots, launched in July, have shown low block rates compared to older versions, with only 1.5% blocking Meta-ExternalAgent and less than 1% blocking Meta-ExternalFetcher, according to Originality.ai.
Other news you might like
OpenAI offers GPT-4o fine-tuning for companies in AI service shift.LINK
US judge blocks FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses.LINK
Gemini in Gmail can now help polish up your drafts.LINK
A critical security update Microsoft developed in 2 years is breaking Linux systems.LINK
Nvidia’s AI NPCs will debut in a multiplayer mech battle game next year.LINK
Atlassian’s billionaire cofounder wants to send renewable power from Australia to Singapore via a 2,600 mile-long undersea cable.LINK
ESA’s Juice spacecraft completes world’s first lunar-Earth flyby.LINK
Skyfire lets AI agents spend your money.LINK
Latest research and tools
ShadPS4: an early PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS that allows users to play select PS4 games on these platforms.LINK
Plasmo Framework: a development toolkit designed specifically for creating browser extensions efficiently without the hassle of dealing with configuration files or extension-specific quirks.LINK
Profiling Programming Language Learning: the Forum coming this September is free, virtual, and open to all, focusing on the nuances of learning different programming languages.LINK
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