Jake Evans / ABC: Australia unveils a plan to mandate safeguards around the use of higher-risk AI, such as self-driving technology, potentially requiring auditing and labeling — abc.net.au/news/government-response- to-ai-safety-sets-up-risk-based- approach/103324906 — The federal government has introduced …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: FCC filings seem to indicate Apple Vision Pro will not support Ultra Wideband, Wi-Fi 6E, or Wi-Fi 7 — If you were hoping for Ultra Wideband and Wi-Fi 6E or 7 chips in Apple Vision Pro,… Read More »FCC filings seem to indicate Apple Vision Pro will not support Ultra Wideband, Wi-Fi 6E, or Wi-Fi 7 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Sources: African neobank Kuda raised $20M in 2023 at a $500M valuation, same as its 2021 valuation; it has 7M retail and business users, short of projections — Earlier this month, Kuda co-founder and CEO Babs… Read More »Sources: African neobank Kuda raised $20M in 2023 at a $500M valuation, same as its 2021 valuation; it has 7M retail and business users, short of projections (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Researchers studying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search results over a year: search engines are losing the cat and mouse game of SEO spam, likely boosted by AI — “The majority of high-ranking product reviews in… Read More »Researchers studying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search results over a year: search engines are losing the cat and mouse game of SEO spam, likely boosted by AI (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI forms a Collective Alignment team to create a system for collecting and using input from the public in its training of models’ behaviors — OpenAI says it wants to implement ideas from the public about… Read More »OpenAI forms a Collective Alignment team to create a system for collecting and using input from the public in its training of models’ behaviors (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Engadget: Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min — We got hands-on with the device once more before its official… Read More »Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min (Engadget)
Bloomberg: OpenAI VP Anna Makanju says the company is developing tools with the US DOD on open-source software and held talks on ways to assist preventing veteran suicide — OpenAI is working with the Pentagon on a number of projects… Read More »OpenAI VP Anna Makanju says the company is developing tools with the US DOD on open-source software and held talks on ways to assist preventing veteran suicide (Bloomberg)
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: In 2023, US metaverse VC funding was just ~$910M, the lowest in at least six years and below a $3.11B peak in 2021; no consumer metaverse company raised $100M+ — Almost nobody these days is… Read More »In 2023, US metaverse VC funding was just ~$910M, the lowest in at least six years and below a $3.11B peak in 2021; no consumer metaverse company raised $100M+ (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
Jon Victor / The Information: Source: Google has increasingly awarded select DeepMind researchers with large grants of restricted stock worth up to millions of dollars, to fend off OpenAI — Even as Google makes a major round of staff cuts,… Read More »Source: Google has increasingly awarded select DeepMind researchers with large grants of restricted stock worth up to millions of dollars, to fend off OpenAI (Jon Victor/The Information)
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which is focused on building smaller AI models, raised a $30M seed led by Lux Capital, a source says at a $200M valuation — Lux Capital, Jeff Dean and others are backing the… Read More »Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which is focused on building smaller AI models, raised a $30M seed led by Lux Capital, a source says at a $200M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)