Enlarge / A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May 14, 2024. (credit: Google) Just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o, which it bills as being able to understand what’s taking place in a video feed and converse about it, Google announced Project Astra, a...
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Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away
Enlarge (credit: Getty) A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, leaving the company, often to work at competitors. The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The...
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The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko) Billy Restey is a digital artist who runs a studio in Seattle. But after hours, he hunts for rare chunks of bitcoin. He does it for the thrill. “It’s like collecting Magic: The Gathering or Pokémon cards,” says Restey. “It’s that excitement of, like, what if I catch...
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(BPRW) Minority Business Conference Florida State Minority Supplier Development Council Brings Business Opportunities to Florida – May 22–23, 2024
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI — The Florida State Minority Supplier Development Council (FSMSDC) will host the Minority Business Conference, a two-day premier event for growth-oriented minority businesses to connect with buyers and key decision-makers….
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OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.
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On Instagram, a Jewelry Ad Draws Solicitations for Sex With a 5-Year-Old
Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired about a child model.
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Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as “gpt-chatbot” that had been undergoing testing on LMSYS’s Chatbot Arena and frustrating experts was, in fact, OpenAI’s newly announced GPT-4o AI model. He also revealed that GPT-4o had topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, achieving...
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Black Basta ransomware group is imperiling critical infrastructure, groups warn
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal agencies, health care associations, and security researchers are warning that a ransomware group tracked under the name Black Basta is ravaging critical infrastructure sectors in attacks that have targeted more than 500 organizations in the past two years. One of the latest casualties of the native Russian-speaking group, according to...
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Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI debuted GPT-4o (o for “omni”), a major new AI model that can ostensibly converse using speech in real time, reading emotional cues and responding to visual input. It operates faster than OpenAI’s previous best model, GPT-4 Turbo, and will be free for ChatGPT users and available as a...
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Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.
Mr. Musk has built a constellation of like-minded heads of state — including Argentina’s Javier Milei and India’s Narendra Modi — to push his own politics and expand his business empire.