If you’re already putting something in your ear, why not let it keep tabs on your health while it’s there? That’s the idea behind OpenEarable 2.0 — a pair of advanced earphones equipped with sensors that track more than 30 physiological metrics. Developed by Dr. Tobias Röddiger and his team at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of […]
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A study that gained widespread attention a few months ago suggested that as AI becomes more advanced, it might develop its own “value systems” — potentially even prioritizing itself over humans. However, a newer MIT paper challenges that idea, concluding that AI doesn’t actually possess any consistent or meaningful values. According to the study’s authors,
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Meta is launching Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger, providing a default experience with built-in safety features for younger users. Initially available in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada, the feature will expand to more countries over time. These accounts were first introduced on Instagram last September, following increased pressure from U.S. lawmakers for social
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The Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia and several other crowdsourced knowledge projects, reported on Wednesday that multimedia download bandwidth from Wikimedia Commons has risen by 50% since January 2024. According to a blog post published Tuesday, this surge isn’t driven by human users but by automated scrapers gathering data to train AI models. “Our infrastructure
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OpenAI has faced multiple accusations of using copyrighted content without permission to train its AI models. A new paper from the AI Disclosures Project, an organization focused on AI transparency, makes a serious claim that OpenAI has increasingly relied on non-public, unlicensed books to train its advanced AI models. AI models work as sophisticated prediction
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TikTok is shutting down its Instagram-like app, TikTok Notes, on May 8. The photo-sharing platform, which was launched for testing last year in Canada, Australia, and Vietnam, is being discontinued. Users of TikTok Notes are being informed of the decision and redirected to ByteDance-owned Lemon8, a move that makes sense given the similarities between the
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Skylight, a startup challenging TikTok with a more open alternative, is launching its mobile app to the public on Tuesday after just 10 weeks of development. Supported by Mark Cuban and other investors, Skylight joins a growing list of apps built on the AT Protocol—the same technology behind the social network Bluesky and several other
OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app, but competitors are gaining traction, according to analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. Similarweb, which tracks web traffic to chatbot platforms, has observed steady growth among rivals like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot. In March, Gemini’s daily web visits averaged 10.9 million, a 7.4%
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OpenAI announced it plans to release its first “open” language model since GPT-2 in the coming months. This information comes from a feedback form published on the company’s website on Monday. OpenAI is inviting “developers, researchers, and members of the broader community” to fill out the form, which includes questions like, “What would you like
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OpenAI’s latest image generator, powered by the GPT-4o model, is now accessible to all users, CEO Sam Altman announced on X. Previously, the feature was limited to ChatGPT’s paid subscribers. The exact number of images free-tier users can generate remains unclear, but last week, Altman indicated a limit of three per day. OpenAI’s Image Tool
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