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iOS 17.4 code shows Apple may be testing two versions of its Ajax LLM for Siri and comparing their responses to OpenAI's ChatGPT (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/26/apple-siri-chatgpt-ios-18-development/
http://www.techmeme.com/240126/p25#a240126p25

Source: Salesforce plans to lay off ~700 employees, or ~1% of its staff, after cutting 10% of its workforce in January 2023; the company has 1,000 open jobs (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/salesforce-laying-off-700-workers-in-latest-tech-industry-downsizing-6a082fa3?mod=followamazon
http://www.techmeme.com/240126/p6#a240126p6

Fubo TV launches Instant Headlines Beta, which uses AI to generate headlines from live news programs on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and other networks (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)

https://cordcuttersnews.com/fubo-launches-ai-generated-highlights-form-live-news-programs/
http://www.techmeme.com/240125/p22#a240125p22

Google partners with Hugging Face to host the startup's open-source AI models on Google Cloud, letting Hugging Face developers access Google's computing power (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/google-to-team-up-with-startup-hugging-face-to-host-ai-software
http://www.techmeme.com/240125/p18#a240125p18

Internal memo: Microsoft plans to lay off ~1,900 staff at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, or ~8% of its Microsoft Gaming workforce, this week (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs
http://www.techmeme.com/240125/p16#a240125p16

IAE: electricity used by data centers, crypto, and AI may more than double in the next three years; Irish data centers will use 32% of its electricity by 2026 (Eamon Farhat/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/cryptocurrency-ai-electricity-demand-seen-doubling-in-three-years
http://www.techmeme.com/240124/p16#a240124p16

MIT CSAIL study: only 23% of US wages paid to humans for doing vision tasks would be economically attractive to automate with AI, due to large upfront costs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/22/new-mit-csail-study-suggests-that-ai-wont-steal-as-many-jobs-expected/
http://www.techmeme.com/240123/p7#a240123p7

Social networks' reduction in moderation, like a hands off approach to 2020 election lies and shuttering election integrity teams, is risky as AI content booms (Anna Edgerton/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/us-heads-into-post-truth-election-as-platforms-shun-arbiter-role
http://www.techmeme.com/240122/p17#a240122p17

Source: Alphabet's moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin projects out as independent startups; sources: it's laying off dozens of employees (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/google-layoffs-saga-continues-as-alphabet-s-x-cuts-dozens-of-jobs-seeks-funds
http://www.techmeme.com/240122/p10#a240122p10

Nightshade, a free tool letting artists "poison" AI models that attempt to train on their artwork without permission, is now available to download on Mac and PC (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

https://venturebeat.com/ai/nightshade-the-free-tool-that-poisons-ai-models-is-now-available-for-artists-to-use/
http://www.techmeme.com/240120/p12#a240120p12

X rolls out audio and video calling to Android following the October 2023 iOS launch; all users can receive calls but only Premium subscribers can place them (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/19/x-is-rolling-out-audio-and-video-calls-to-android/
http://www.techmeme.com/240119/p7#a240119p7

Google's TAG says Russia-linked hacking group Cold River is ramping up its activity and using new tactics, like data-stealing malware, to cause more disruption (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/18/google-cold-river-russia-espionage-malware/
http://www.techmeme.com/240118/p20#a240118p20

Gaza's internet and telecoms have been fully shut down for seven straight days, the longest time since October 2023; 12 of its ISPs are down since October 2023 (Access Now)

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/gaza-a-week-in-the-dark/
http://www.techmeme.com/240118/p17#a240118p17

Nielsen: Peacock's exclusive stream of the NFL AFC Wild Card game was the "most-streamed event in US history", with 27.6M total viewers and a 24.6M peak average (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/14/24038525/peacocks-afc-wild-card-game-was-the-most-streamed-event-ever-in-the-us
http://www.techmeme.com/240114/p8#a240114p8

A UN report says Tether token is one of the leading payment methods for money laundering and frauds, including pig butchering scams, in Southeast Asia (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)

https://t.co/OqaI57hENm
http://www.techmeme.com/240115/p1#a240115p1

Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/13/anthropic-researchers-find-that-ai-models-can-be-trained-to-deceive/
http://www.techmeme.com/240113/p9#a240113p9

Interoperability across ecosystems was one of CES 2024's main themes, with widespread support for Qi2 wireless charging perhaps being the most significant shift (Emma Roth/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/24035815/ces-2024-interoperability-android-google-samsung
http://www.techmeme.com/240113/p7#a240113p7

Bank of America values Jio Platforms at $107B, up 64.6% from $65B in 2020 when the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate raised $20B+ from Meta and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/bofa-gives-ambanis-jio-platforms-a-100-billion-plus-valuation/
http://www.techmeme.com/240110/p3#a240110p3

An analysis of fediverse backend hosting providers finds Germany-based Hetzner hosts 51% of the network by number of active users, followed by France-based OVH (benjojo blog)

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
http://www.techmeme.com/240112/p17#a240112p17

Notes on Meta's plans for Threads integration with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company is carrying out cautiously and in good faith (Tom Coates/plasticbag.org)

http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-integrate-with-the-fediverse/
http://www.techmeme.com/240112/p1#a240112p1