As OpenAI CTO and two others depart, Altman denies link to restructuring plans

As OpenAI CTO and two others depart, Altman denies link to restructuring plans

In a subsequent statement at the Italian Tech Week conference in Turin, as reported by Reuters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied any connection between the executive departures and the company’s restructuring plans. “That’s totally not true,” Altman said, addressing speculation about a link between the two events. He clarified that the board has been considering … Read more

iOS 18.0.1 Includes Security Fixes for Messages and Passwords Apps

iOS 18.0.1 Includes Security Fixes for Messages and Passwords Apps

In addition to several bug fixes, the iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1 updates released on Thursday include a few security patches for the iPhone and iPad. In a support document, Apple says iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1 address security vulnerabilities involving the built-in Messages and Passwords apps. Here are the full details from Apple: Media … Read more

NASA turns off another Voyager 2 instruments to save power

NASA turns off another Voyager 2 instruments to save power

The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the universe. But despite their incredible longevity and success, they are inevitably running low on power, so their operations have to be tweaked … Read more

How to Tell Which Apple Watch You Have

How to Tell Which Apple Watch You Have

Quick Links Find Apple Watch Model from the Case Find Apple Watch Model from the Watch If you’re trying to fix an issue with your Apple Watch, or you want to sell it, you’ll need to know which version of the wearable you own. Here’s how to identify the device from the Watch app or … Read more

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI – IEEE Spectrum

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI – IEEE Spectrum

Andrew Ng has serious street cred in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University, cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu, where he helped build the Chinese … Read more

Meta must limit data for personalised ads

Meta must limit data for personalised ads

Facebook-owner Meta must minimise the amount of people’s data it uses for personalised advertising, the EU’s highest court says. The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) ruled in favour of privacy campaigner Max Schrems, who complained that Facebook misused his personal data about his sexual orientation to target ads at him. In complaints … Read more

Cohere just made it way easier for companies to create their own AI language models

Cohere just made it way easier for companies to create their own AI language models

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Artificial intelligence company Cohere unveiled significant updates to its fine-tuning service on Thursday, aiming to accelerate enterprise adoption of large language models. The enhancements support Cohere’s latest Command R 08-2024 model and provide businesses with greater … Read more

The 4 biggest challenges of AI-generated code that Gartner left out of its latest report

The 4 biggest challenges of AI-generated code that Gartner left out of its latest report

panithan pholpanichrassamee/Getty Images Gartner is one of the tech industry’s most respected analyst groups. Its business is custom advisory services, conferences, and putting out multi-client industry analysis reports. Becoming a Gartner client is not cheap, with estimates starting at $30,000 per seat per year. The way Gartner (and, to be fair, most other analyst groups) … Read more

Google Search is testing verified checkmarks for legitimate businesses

Google Search is testing verified checkmarks for legitimate businesses

Google Search has always had one serious drawback — if you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to click on a fraudulent site that’s mimicking a real business. Now, the company appears to be testing a long-overdue solution: blue verified checkmarks that show a company is legitimate. The checks started appearing next to official site links … Read more

Best Internet Providers With No Data Caps for 2024

Best Internet Providers With No Data Caps for 2024

With how necessary the internet has become to our daily lives, unlimited data should be a given. Still, some internet providers put a pesky cap on the amount of data you can use each month, and enforce those caps either by charging fees or significantly throttling speeds. Instead of monitoring your monthly data use to … Read more