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With big new EV motor investment GM aims to cut reliance on China | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

Why Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky (www.technologyreview.com)

Cisco beefs up cybersecurity play with $28 bln Splunk deal (www.reuters.com)

Making Large Language Models work for you (simonwillison.net)

A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat (www.nytimes.com)

NYT gift article expires in 30 days....

LK99 - The case for scepticism (twitter.com)

I’m not plugged into all the hype around lk99, but this person seems to be a nice balance of hype, technical background and eagerness to not be wrong about things....

UK Version of "Online Harms Bill" wants to prefilter content without due process (easydns.com)

Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to “understand the true nature of the universe” (www.theverge.com)

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company called xAI with the goal of understanding the true nature of the universe. The team at xAI includes AI researchers who have worked at companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and DeepMind. Little is known about xAI currently except that Musk seeks funding from SpaceX and Tesla to start it....

China’s search engine pioneer unveils open-source large language model to rival OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)

Scientists make AI laser turret for killing cockroaches - What could possibly go wrong? (mybroadband.co.za)

Scientists have developed a laser with artificial intelligence (AI) designed to neutralise cockroaches as a new form of pest control....

Ireland plans build of datacenter powered by fuel cells (www.theregister.com)

GNU 40th anniversary (www.gnu.org)

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot now supports prompting with voice and images (www.theverge.com)

TL;DR: OpenAI’s ChatGPT has added voice and image prompting for plus users, coming to everyone else “soon after”. You can now ask questions by speaking or uploading images. It uses advanced text-to-speech and image recognition technology, but with controlled limitations to prevent misuse.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (www.joelonsoftware.com)

Figma Is A File Editor (digest.browsertech.com)

A high level but interesting write up of how Figma (a browser-based collaborative design tool) behaves like a file editor (their term), and how it overcomes the natural affinity of web apps to RDBMS-backed CRUD persistence patterns.

Bear 2 is a terrific notes app — and it only took forever to build (www.theverge.com)

Bear 2 is a major update to the popular note-taking app Bear, which was an immediate hit when it launched in 2016. The new version has taken a long time to build, over 5 years, as the developers decided to completely rewrite the underlying text editor to enable features like tables, GIFs, and footnotes. The developer says...

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