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For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models, Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model large enough to compete with state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI itself, The Information reported. The new model, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being overseen by
Bluesky's most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse "no." Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up posts asking hime to explain
A Russian national pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit money laundering related to his role in operating cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice reported. According to court documents, Alexander Vinnick, 44, was one of the operators of BTC-e, which was one of the world’s largest virtual currency exchanges. From its inception in or
X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app’s Explore section. According to an announcement and screenshots posted by the X Engineering team on Friday, X’s Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the For You tab in Explore, TechCrunch reported.
Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts to replace the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys. Their password less approach relies on device-based authentication instead, making logging in faster and more secure, The Verge reported. In a blog post on Thursday, the company announced that over 400 million Google accounts
There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight, 9to5Mac reported. A number of people on social media say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening and forced to reset their password before logging back in.
DJI is on a Defense Department list of Chinese military companies whose products the U.S. armed forces will be prohibited from purchasing in the future. As part of the defense budget that Congress passed for this year, other federal agencies sand programs are likely to be prohibited from purchasing DJI drones as well, New York Times reported. The drones —