Journals

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: A Mozilla study of 11 AI romance chatbots finds that they harvest personal information extensively, and that 10 of them may sell or share the data they collect  —  The privacy mess is troubling because the… Read More »A Mozilla study of 11 AI romance chatbots finds that they harvest personal information extensively, and that 10 of them may sell or share the data they collect (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Bloomberg: Sony reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$25.11B, operating income up 10% YoY to ~$3.1B, meeting est., and 8.2M PS5s sold, roughly 1M units lower than projected  —  – Company reversing course after taking the unit private in… Read More »Sony reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$25.11B, operating income up 10% YoY to ~$3.1B, meeting est., and 8.2M PS5s sold, roughly 1M units lower than projected (Bloomberg)

Alistair Barr / Business Insider: A typo in Lyft’s Q4 release mistakenly forecast a 500 BPS of EBITDA margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge, before the error was corrected to 50 BPS  —  – Lyft mistakenly forecast 500… Read More »A typo in Lyft’s Q4 release mistakenly forecast a 500 BPS of EBITDA margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge, before the error was corrected to 50 BPS (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: TikTok plans to launch an in-app local language Election Centre in March in all 27 EU countries, to fight fake news ahead of the European Parliament elections  —  ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok said on… Read More »TikTok plans to launch an in-app local language Election Centre in March in all 27 EU countries, to fight fake news ahead of the European Parliament elections (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Bloomberg: SoftBank Vision Funds co-CEO Alex Clavel says the fund is “looking very carefully” at generative AI firms, as SoftBank embraces a cautious investment approach  —  Once known for bestowing ten-figure valuations, the firm is now embracing a more modest… Read More »SoftBank Vision Funds co-CEO Alex Clavel says the fund is “looking very carefully” at generative AI firms, as SoftBank embraces a cautious investment approach (Bloomberg)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: In a research paper, Apple researchers detail a new AI tool called Keyframer, which uses LLMs to animate static images through natural language prompts  —  Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI tool called “Keyframer,” which… Read More »In a research paper, Apple researchers detail a new AI tool called Keyframer, which uses LLMs to animate static images through natural language prompts (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

The Information: AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, leaves the company; Karpathy was developing a product that he described as an AI assistant  —  Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left… Read More »AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, leaves the company; Karpathy was developing a product that he described as an AI assistant (The Information)

Alex Heath / The Verge: In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting trade-offs Apple made, and more  —  Now that it can be strapped to our faces… Read More »In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting trade-offs Apple made, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Foundry Group, an 18-year-old VC firm with nearly $3.5B in assets under management, has quietly decided to wind down and not raise any more funds  —  Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5… Read More »Foundry Group, an 18-year-old VC firm with nearly $3.5B in assets under management, has quietly decided to wind down and not raise any more funds (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Alison Snyder / Axios: Cohere’s nonprofit research lab releases its open-source multilingual LLM Aya, which it says can follow instructions in more than 100 languages  —  A new open-source generative AI model can follow instructions in more than 100 languages.… Read More »Cohere’s nonprofit research lab releases its open-source multilingual LLM Aya, which it says can follow instructions in more than 100 languages (Alison Snyder/Axios)