Meta’s $19 billion bid to own messaging in the US gains steam — and AI could give it an edge over Apple’s iMessage
30 Jul

Meta’s $19 billion bid to own messaging in the US gains steam — and AI could give it an edge over Apple’s iMessage

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After buying WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion in cash and stock, Meta last week reached a milestone, crossing 100 million monthly active users of the messaging app in the US.While WhatsApp is widely used worldwide — it notched 2 billion users globally in 2020 — it hasn't gained as strong a foothold in the US, trailing behind other messaging services, most notably Apple's iMessage.WhatsApp has been spending big on marketing in the US, touting its encryption and the fact it doesn't have green and blue text bubbles like Apple devices. A recent ad featured the cast of "Modern Family."Carl…
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The Spark-to-Ray Migration That Will Save Amazon $100M+ Per Year
30 Jul

The Spark-to-Ray Migration That Will Save Amazon $100M+ Per Year

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(Markus-Mainka/Shutterstock) When Ray first emerged from the UC Berkeley RISELab back in 2017, it was positioned as a possible replacement for Apache Spark. But as Anyscale, the commercial outfit behind Ray, scaled up its own operations, the “Ray will replace Spark” mantra was played down a bit. However, that’s exactly what the folks at a little online bookstore known as Amazon have done with one particularly onerous–and enormous–Spark workload. Amazon–the parent of Amazon Web Services–recently published a blog post that shares intricate details about how it has started the migration of one of its largest business intelligence workloads from Apache…
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Elon Musk Won’t Apologize After Sharing Faked AI Video of Kamala Harris
30 Jul

Elon Musk Won’t Apologize After Sharing Faked AI Video of Kamala Harris

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Not surprising, but definitely gross. Hack JobOver the weekend, Elon Musk posted an AI-doctored video of Vice President Kamala Harris on X-formerly-Twitter — and thus far, he hasn't apologized for it.In the video, which Musk posted on July 26 and has since been viewed hundreds of millions of times, the presidential candidate's voice was altered to make it sound like she was bragging about being "the ultimate diversity hire.""I'm both a woman and a person of color," the fake-Harris in the altered video says, "so if you criticize anything I say, you're both sexist and racist.""This is amazing," the billionaire…
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OpenAI rolls out advanced Voice Mode and no, it won’t sound like ScarJo
30 Jul

OpenAI rolls out advanced Voice Mode and no, it won’t sound like ScarJo

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OpenAI has started rolling out its advanced Voice Mode feature. Starting today, a small number of paying ChatGPT users will be able to have a tete-a-tete with the AI chatbot. All ChatGPT Plus members should receive access to the expanded toolset by the fall of this year.In an announcement on X, the company said this advanced version of its Voice Mode "offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions."We’re starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time…
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Israel tried to kill a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut who has a $5 million US bounty on his head
30 Jul

Israel tried to kill a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut who has a $5 million US bounty on his head

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Israel said it conducted a strike in Beirut on Tuesday targeting a Hezbollah commander who it deemed responsible for a deadly rocket attack in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights over the weekend.The retaliatory strike in the Lebanese capital targeted Fuad Shukr, a senior advisor to Hezbollah's secretary-general Hasan Nasrallah who has a $5 million US government bounty on his head. It was not immediately clear whether he survived the strike.Video and images from the scene revealed extensive damage to at least one multi-story building, debris in the streets, and smoke rising above the city. There are reportedly dozens of casualties."The IDF…
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Decomposing heterogeneous dynamical systems with graph neural networks
30 Jul

Decomposing heterogeneous dynamical systems with graph neural networks

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Community day for FlutterChicago! Gemini API Developer Competition Hackathon
30 Jul

Community day for FlutterChicago! Gemini API Developer Competition Hackathon

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Build something amazing for the Gemini API Developer Competition Hackathon! Join the Hackathon here Resources Gemini APIs Google AI Studio You can get your API key, create prompts and play around with the Gemini tool right from the AI studio. Places API work with place and area summaries with the Google maps platform. Flutter resources Source link lol
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Baidu’s self-reasoning AI: The end of ‘hallucinating’ language models?
30 Jul

Baidu’s self-reasoning AI: The end of ‘hallucinating’ language models?

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese tech giant Baidu has unveiled a breakthrough in artificial intelligence that could make language models more reliable and trustworthy. Researchers at the company have created a novel “self-reasoning” framework, enabling AI systems to critically evaluate their own knowledge and decision-making processes. The new approach, detailed in a paper published on arXiv, tackles a persistent challenge in AI: ensuring the factual accuracy of large language models. These powerful systems, which underpin popular chatbots and other AI tools, have shown remarkable capabilities…
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