Collaborate Disseminate
“ChatGPT is getting more social,” reports PC Magazine, “with a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any other OpenAI product…”
It’s “completely optional,” [OpenAI] says. However, e… Continue reading Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT
Recently a small crowd paid to watch robots boxing, reports Rest of World. (Almost 3,000 people have now watched the match’s 83-minute webcast.)
The match was organized by Rek, a San Francisco-based company, and drew hundreds of spectators who had … Continue reading Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots
Starting in 2009, the U.S. government have given car manufacturers towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions if they included “start-stop” systems in cars with internal combustion engines. (These systems automatically shut off idling engines to reduce … Continue reading US Government Will Stop Pollution-Reduction Credits for Cars With ‘Start-Stop’ Systems
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, EVA AI created a temporary “pop-up” restaurant at a wine bar in Manhattan’s “Hell’s Kitchen” district where patrons can date AI personas.
The Verge notes that looking around the restaurant, “Of the 30-some-odd people in … Continue reading Dates with AI Companions Plagued by Lag, Miscommunications – and General Creepiness
Meta, TikTok, Snap and other social neteworks agreed this week to be rated on their teen safety efforts, reports the Los Angeles Times, “amid rising concern about whether the world’s largest social media platforms are doing enough to protect the mental… Continue reading Social Networks Agree to Be Rated On Their Teen Safety Efforts
1.5 million people have now viewed a slick 15-second video imagining Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt that was generated by ByteDance’s new AI video generation tool Seedance 2.0.
But while ByteDance gushes their tool “delivers cinematic output aligned wi… Continue reading ByteDance’s Seedance 2 Criticized Over AI-Generated Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt
“Global temperatures have been rising for decades,” reports the Washington Post. “But many scientists say it’s now happening faster than ever before.”
According to a Washington Post analysis, the fastest warming rate on record occurred in the last 30 … Continue reading Earth is Warming Faster Than Ever. But Why?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Register:
Telcos likely received advance warning about January’s critical Telnet vulnerability before its public disclosure, according to threat intelligence biz GreyNoise. Global Telnet traffic “fell o… Continue reading Sudden Telnet Traffic Drop. Are Telcos Filtering Ports to Block Critical Vulnerability?
Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after Sunday’s Super Bowl ad mocking ChatGPT’s advertising, reports CNBC (citing data analyzed by French financial services company BNP Paribas).
The Claude gain, which took it into the top 10 free apps on… Continue reading Anthropic’s Claude Got 11% User Boost from Super Bowl Ad Mocking ChatGPT’s Advertising
“I’ve had an extremely weird few days…” writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He’s the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as “some of the most widely used sof… Continue reading Autonomous AI Agent Apparently Tries to Blackmail Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code