The Federal Communications Commission has voted to reinstate net neutrality protections that were jettisoned during the Trump administration. As expected, the vote fell across party lines with the three Democratic commissioners in favor and the two Republicans on the panel voting against the measure...

Gradient incorporates your data to deploy autonomous assistants that power critical operations across your business. To learn more or collaborate on a custom model, drop us a message at contact@gradient.ai. This model extends LLama-3 8B's context length from 8k to > 160K, developed by Gradient, s...

Ellie Pavlick stands in Brown University’s Computer History Museum. Her work on how large language models understand concepts often merges philosophy with science. Start talking to Ellie Pavlick about her work — looking for evidence of understanding within large language models (LLMs) — and sh...

Yeah, it turns out that a former athletic director, who is black, has been arrested for making this using a clip of the principal's voice that he uploaded to an AI audio platform, which then allowed him to make the recording with whatever words he put into a prompt. Baltimore County Police arrested ...

Shares surge after tech giant issues first ever dividend and posts revenue of $80.5bn, up 15% since last year, despite staff turmoil Shares in Alphabet, the owner of Google and YouTube, surged after it issued its first ever dividend and revealed that profits had surged in the last quarter. Sundar Pi...

Profits at Microsoft beat Wall Street’s expectations as its heavy bet on artificial intelligence continued to bear fruit in the second quarter. The technology giant has invested billions of dollars into AI in a bid to turbocharge its growth, particularly of its cloud computing services. Its cloud ...

PC gaming classic Garry's Mod is nearly 20 years worth of content, as Nintendo has issued a takedown notice for all Nintendo-based user content in the Steam Workshop for the game. Garry, the eponymous creator of the game, confirmed on Twitter/X today that there is no mistake, Nintendo themselves iss...

“Cause we all just wanna be big rock stars And live in hilltop houses, driving 15 cars The girls come easy, and the drugs come cheap We'll all stay skinny, 'cause we just won't eat” - Nickelback There are a lot of songs about wanting to be famous. There’s Mr. Jones by Counting Crows, ...

Investors felt differently. After earnings yesterday showed strong revenues but that Meta was investing heavily in AI, they took Meta stock down 15%. DeepMind and Anthropic also shipped, but in their cases it was multiple papers on AI alignment and threat mitigation. They get their own sections. W...

(1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search results, as all core updates are designed to do. It is incorrect to say it rolled back our quality or our anti-spam protections, which we'v...