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Yahoo bought AI-powered news app Artifact from Instagram’s co-founders
02 Apr

Yahoo bought AI-powered news app Artifact from Instagram’s co-founders

John RoutledgeLatest News
Yahoo has bought Artifact, the news aggregation and recommendation app from Instagram’s co-founders. The app will no longer operate as a standalone service. Yahoo will fold Artifact's AI personalization tech and other features into products including Yahoo News in the coming months. Terms of the deal, which closed last week, were not disclosed. Artifact founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger…
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Max annual subscriptions are 40 percent off right now
02 Apr

Max annual subscriptions are 40 percent off right now

John RoutledgeLatest News
You still have a few more days to save 40 percent on a year's subscription to Max. The discount is available to new subscribers (and some existing ones) and includes every plan the streaming service offers. The top tier subscription is for the ad-free, 4K plan which will now cost $140 annually instead of $240. The mid-level plan is also…
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The US and UK are teaming up to test the safety of AI models
02 Apr

The US and UK are teaming up to test the safety of AI models

John RoutledgeLatest News
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and other companies developing generative AI are continuing to improve their technologies and releasing better and better large language models. In order to create a common approach for independent evaluation on the safety of those models as they come out, the UK and the US governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Together, the UK's AI Safety…
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You can now use ChatGPT without an account
01 Apr

You can now use ChatGPT without an account

John RoutledgeLatest News
On Monday, OpenAI began opening up ChatGPT to users without an account. It described the move as part of its mission to “make tools like ChatGPT broadly available so that people can experience the benefits of AI.” It also gives the company more training data (for those who don’t opt out) and perhaps nudges more users into creating accounts and…
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Google says it will destroy browsing data collected from Chrome’s Incognito mode
01 Apr

Google says it will destroy browsing data collected from Chrome’s Incognito mode

John RoutledgeLatest News
The first details emerged Monday from Google’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit over Chrome’s tracking of Incognito users. Filed in 2020, the suit could have required the company to pay $5 billion in damages. Instead, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will destroy “billions of data points” it improperly collected, update its data collection disclosures and maintain a setting…
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