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Intel loses $2.8 billion in another not-great quarter, down 36% year over year
Enlarge / Intel’s flagship desktop CPU, the Core i9-13900K. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 17 with Intel has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2023, and the numbers aren’t good: The company brought in $11.7 billion, a drop of 36 percent from Q1 of 2022. Because of the decline in revenue, Intel lost… Read More »
Reddit will start charging AI models learning from its extremely human archives
Enlarge / Reddit, a site that is chock-full of humans being every kind of human possible, will start charging larger businesses that want to train their Large Language Model AIs on its data. Getty Images reader comments 63 with Share this story If you’re a business training a large language model (LLM) AI and want… Read More »
Adobe teases generative AI video tools
Enlarge / A demo of Firefly AI generation in Adobe Premiere. reader comments 23 with Share this story On Monday, Adobe announced plans to add AI video synthesis tools to Premiere Pro and After Effects, reports Reuters. This follows an announcement last week that AI-powered text-based video editing will come to Premiere Pro in May.… Read More »
FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony
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? Aurich Lawson reader comments 70 with Share this story Chrome developers’ decision to remove support for a compressed image format that Google helped develop is just… Read More »
Apple releases last week’s security patches for older iPhones, iPads, and Macs
Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15. reader comments 14 with Share this story Last week, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 16.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1 to patch two actively exploited security vulnerabilities and fix other small bugs. Today it’s following those up with iOS and iPadOS 15.7.5, macOS Monterey 12.6.5, and macOS Big Sur 11.7.6… Read More »
Analysts say Mac sales are down 40% as post-pandemic PC sales slump continues
Enlarge / Apple’s M2 Pro Mac mini. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 92 with Share this story The analysts at IDC have released their worldwide PC sales numbers for the first quarter of 2023, and the news isn’t good for PC companies. IDC says that all the companies combined shipped 56.9 million PCs in Q1 of… Read More »
Personal AI Live Demo – Public release happening on 4/11
While the AI industry and the public at large take a closer look at the societal challenges that come with large AI systems, such as data attribution and ownership, we are pushing forward to put personal models into the hands of everyday consumers that they can steer. We are spearheading a transition from the era of personal computing to the… Read More »
Artists astound with AI-generated film stills from a parallel universe
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from an #aicinema still series called “Vinyl Vengeance” by Julie Wieland, created using Midjourney. reader comments 48 with Share this story Since last year, a group of artists have been using an AI image generator called Midjourney to create still photos of films that don’t exist. They call the trend… Read More »
ChatGPT vs Google Bard: Which is better? We put them to the test.
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of two robots fighting in an arena. Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 188 with Share this story In today’s world of generative AI chatbots, we’ve witnessed the sudden rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, introduced in November, followed by Bing Chat in February and Google’s Bard in March. We decided to… Read More »