Wall Street investors were hoping the social media giant would regain its footing after more than a year of problems, including slumping ad sales.
Russia’s Online Censorship Has Surged During Ukraine War
A report from Citizen Lab laid out how much online censorship has increased on one of Russia’s biggest social media sites.
OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, OpenAI quietly pulled its AI Classifier, an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text. The decommissioning, first noticed by Decrypt, occurred with no major fanfare and was announced through a small note added to OpenAI’s official AI Classifier webpage:...
Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It has been a tough year for PC companies and companies that make PC components. Companies like Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have all reported big drops in revenue from the hardware that they sell to consumers (though the hardware they sell to other businesses is often doing better). Microsoft contributed another...
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris Delmas) Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as “X” wouldn’t be complete without a change to the company’s official Twitter account. The @X handle was already taken by a user who registered it over 16 years ago, but that wasn’t much of an obstacle—Twitter simply took over the username...
Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android
Enlarge (credit: OpenAI) On Tuesday, OpenAI released an official ChatGPT app for Android, now available in the Google Play Store in four countries: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with more coming soon. As a client for OpenAI’s language model family, the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models run on the cloud and provide results to your...
Major AI companies form group to research, keep control of AI
Enlarge / The four companies say they launched the Frontier Model Forum to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.” (credit: Financial Times) Four of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence companies have formed a group to research increasingly powerful AI and establish best practices for controlling it, as public anxiety and...
(BPRW) Cultivate Culture, Cravings, & Community With Black Foodie Finder
(Black PR Wire) How Far Are You Willing To Go For Great Food? Look No Further, Black Foodie Finder, the leading app for finding and supporting black-owned food businesses, announced the release of its new app 2.0. The updated app includes a number of…
Alphabet Steams Past Ad Worries, Fueled by Google’s Search Engine
Despite concerns of a shaky ad market and growing competition in A.I., Google’s bounce forward in the second quarter was aided by accelerating revenue from its search engine and the video platform YouTube.
Microsoft Revenue Up 8% to $56.2 Billion in Latest Quarter
The company’s profit topped $20 billion as it pointed to early interest in its artificial intelligence products.