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Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has “not enough interest from the entire ecosystem,” what does that mean, exactly? (credit: Aurich Lawson) Chrome developers’ decision to remove support for a compressed image format that Google helped develop is just another sign of “the disturbing amount...

(Black PR Wire) This year marks the 50th Anniversary of The East Coast Chapter Tuskegee Airmen, Incorporated (ECCTAI), the oldest and largest chapter of the renowned Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.  ECCTAI is dedicated to fostering recognition of and…

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “self-improving robot.” (credit: Midjourney) Since the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 API last month to beta testers, a loose group of developers have been experimenting with making agent-like (“agentic”) implementations of the AI model that attempt to carry out multistep tasks with as little human intervention as possible. These...

(Black PR Wire) ELGIN, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Yesterday, Boys & Girls Clubs of America celebrated the opening of its 5,000th Club location across the nation. Located in Elgin, Illinois, the new youth-serving Club, boasting 20,000 sq. ft., sets a reco…

Enlarge (credit: Databricks) On Wednesday, Databricks released Dolly 2.0, reportedly the first open source, instruction-following large language model (LLM) for commercial use that’s been fine-tuned on a human-generated data set. It could serve as a compelling starting point for homebrew ChatGPT competitors. Databricks is an American enterprise software company founded in 2013 by the creators...

Enlarge / An AI generated image of a “colorful data center.” (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, Amazon released a new suite of AI technologies, including foundational large language models (LLMs) called Titan and a cloud computing service called Bedrock, reports Reuters. The move comes as competitors Microsoft and Google integrate AI chatbots into their search engines...

(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fearless Fund, the first venture capital fund built by women of color, for women of color, has announced a new industry-specific cohort of the Get Venture Ready (GVR) Program in partnership with JPMorgan Cha…

Youth culture and national defense collided in a community known for edgy jokes. The YouTube celebrity it was dedicated to seemed as surprised as anyone.

Workers at Facebook’s parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company’s direction.

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a cyborg Twitter bird logo composed of thousands of computer chips.” (credit: Midjourney) Despite recently calling for a six-month pause in the development of powerful AI models, Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently purchased roughly 10,000 GPUs for a generative AI project within Twitter, reports Business Insider, citing people familiar...