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29 Aug

OpenAI and Anthropic agree to share their models with the US AI Safety Institute

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OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to share AI models — before and after release — with the US AI Safety Institute. The agency, established through an executive order by President Biden in 2023, will offer safety feedback to the companies to improve their models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted at the agreement earlier this month.“Safety is essential to fueling breakthrough…

29 Aug

The Alan Wake and Control universe may expand to film and TV

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The Oldest House could be coming to a big screen near you. TV and film adaptations of Control and Alan Wake may be on the way after Remedy Entertainment struck a deal with Annapurna Pictures. Annapurna is stumping up half of the development budget for Control 2 and in return it snapped up the rights to adapt the two franchises.Remedy…

29 Aug

Apple Sports is ready for some football with new game tracking updates

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If you’re the kind of pro or college football fan who wishes they could time travel so they can watch every game as they happen, Apple Sports may be able to help. The iPhone sports app can’t break the laws of quantum physics but it can help you keep track of all the games during football season.Apple Sports’ newest update…

29 Aug

EU officials believe Telegram lied about user numbers to skirt regulation

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Not only is Telegram CEO Pavel Durov facing criminal charges in France, the company he founded could be in hot water with the European Union as well. EU officials are looking into whether the platform lied about its user numbers to avoid being regulated under the Digital Services Act (DSA).The Joint Research Centre — a department of the European Commission,…

29 Aug

Apple event 2024: What to expect at the iPhone 16 keynote in September

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The biggest day of the tech world’s autumn calendar is nearly here: Apple’s iPhone 16 event will take place on September 9 at 1PM ET. We'll be live-blogging the news, and you can watch it live via the company’s website or on YouTube. The biggest news from the Apple event will almost definitely involve the forthcoming lineup of iPhone 16…

29 Aug

Netflix’s Wallace and Gromit movie features a ‘smart gnome’ robot in a teaser clip

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[embedded content]Netflix and the BBC have released an all-too-brief look at Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. A clip from the stop-motion animated movie features Wallace proudly revealing his latest invention, a “smart gnome” called Norbot. The robot aggressively shakes Gromit’s paw while introducing itself to the pooch, hinting at trouble ahead.It’s a very short clip, but it’s full of…

29 Aug

Labor Day sales include up to $150 off fire pits and pizza ovens from Solo Stove

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Labor Day deals are in full swing, so that means fall is almost here, bringing with it leaves of changing colors and crisp weather. In other words, it’s nearly bonfire season. To commemorate this, Solo Stove is holding a sitewide Labor Day sale that includes fire pits, pizza ovens and just about everything else.You'll find straight-up discounts on a lot…

29 Aug

This Labor Day sale discounts Apple’s MagSafe charging pad to just $29

John RoutledgeLatest News

The Labor Day discounts are coming in hot. Here’s one for Apple’s fantastic MagSafe charging pad. It’s usually $39, but this Amazon sale brings it down to $29. That’s a savings of 26 percent and close to a record low price.If you haven’t tried a charging pad before, you are in for a treat. There’s a reason this thing made…

29 Aug

Meta’s Oversight Board looks into anti-trans posts that the company won’t remove

John RoutledgeLatest News

Meta's Oversight Board is looking at two anti-transgender posts shared in 2024 that were reported multiple times for hate speech, bullying and harassment. The first is a video shared on Facebook that shows a trans woman being confronted in the bathroom by another woman. The post misgenders the person as a man and questions why they should be allowed to…

29 Aug

Meta says Llama’s usage grew tremendously due to the power of open source

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Meta has published an update on how its Llama large language models are performing, and they're apparently doing so well that they're now "approaching 350 million downloads to date." That's 10 times more than the downloads it accumulated compared to the same time last year. Approximately 20 million of those downloads took place in the last month alone, after the…