Month: February 2024
Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com is in talks with AI companies Midjourney and OpenAI to provide training data scraped from users’ posts, a report from 404 Media alleges. The report, based on an anonymous source inside the company, says that deals between Automattic and the two AI companies are…
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‘Feels like magic!’: Groq’s ultrafast LPU could well be the first LLM-native processor — and its latest demo may well convince Nvidia and AMD to get out their checkbooks
Groq, led by ex-Google engineer and CEO Jonathan Ross, claims to have created the first ever Language Processing Unit (LPU) which it says can deliver the fastest speeds for AI applications. It’s a bold claim, but one that the latest demos more than back up, suggesting it could well become…
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Apple’s electric car project is dead
Apple has halted its long-rumored project to create an electric car, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly announced the news internally on Tuesday and said many people in the 2,000-person team behind the car will shift to generative AI efforts instead. Apple chief operating officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch,…
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The Weird, Wacky Gizmos and Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2024
Have you played Doom on a robot lawn mower? We did. From app-free phones to an electric bike with AI and 5G, we’ve combed the halls of the Mobile World Congress in search of all things quirky and bizarre. Source
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Podcasting’s data rules get a refresh
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hello! I am very excited to see so many of you at Hot Pod Summit and On Air Fest this week. I’ll be back on Tuesday with a recap of the events. But first, I’ve got…
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Netflix’s Mea Culpa is a Rotten Tomatoes disaster – watch these 3 thrillers instead
It’s fair to say that the reviews of Mea Culpa, the new Netflix thriller, aren’t being very kind. It’s currently sitting with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 15%, and while that’s only based on 13 reviews so far, it does appear that if this film were a bird, it’d…
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