Month: December 2023
China outlines new rules banning log in rewards, loot boxes and other in-game spending
New rules have been laid out by regulators in China that aim to reduce the amount of money gamers spend within video games. As reported by Reuters, the rules were announced today (December 22), and will make changes to how games can reward their players for logging in and making…
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Apple may be working on a way to let LLMs run on-device and change your iPhones forever
Apple researchers have apparently discovered a method that’ll allow iPhones to host and run their own large language models (LLMs). With this tech, future iPhone models may finally have the generative AI features people have been eagerly waiting for. This information comes from a pair of papers published on arXiv,…
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Google’s Nearby Share tool appears to adopt Samsung’s similar utility name and we wonder what’s going on
Google has suddenly changed the name of its file-sharing tool from Nearby Share to Quick Share which is what Samsung calls its own tool. It’s a random move that has people scratching their heads wondering what it could mean for Android in the future. This update appears to have been…
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AI companies would be required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill
Two lawmakers filed a bill requiring creators of foundation models to disclose sources of training data so copyright holders know their information was taken. The AI Foundation Model Transparency Act — filed by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Don Beyer (D-VA) — would direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to…
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Apple reportedly wants to use the news to help train its AI models
Apple is talking with some big news publishers about licensing their news archives and using that information to help train its generative AI systems, The New York Times reports. The company is apparently discussing “multiyear deals worth at least $50 million,” the NYT says, and has been in touch with…
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Nvidia RTX 5090 launch might hinge on AMD’s RDNA 4 success
Gamers and creators waiting to see Nvidia‘s next-gen RTX 5090 in 2024 should keep a close eye on what AMD does next year, since Nvidia may be timing the RTX 5090 launch based on what AMD does with its own next-gen GPUs. In a recent video, tech channel Moore’s Law…
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