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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed “toxicity testing”, but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face  —  Microsoft deleted its WizardLM 2 LLM because it didn’t go through “toxicity testing,” but it’s already all over the internet. Source link

Starfield is just days away from launch and ahead of that the Bethesda RPG has seen several leaks. Copies of the game are currently in the hands of select reviewers and even some players who obtained it illegally, before sharing a plethora of screenshots and gameplay videos online. One such clip that’s now causing concern

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sources: AI search engine Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5B-$3B valuation with interest from previous backers NEA and IVP  —  Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is a hot property at the moment.  TechCrunch has learned that the company is currently raising at least $250 million … Source link

What are the biggest movies releasing in September 2023? Shah Rukh Khan headlines the biggest treat in Indian cinema this month with Jawan, an action-thriller which sees him in the role of an emotional vigilante, on a mission to rectify the wrongs in society. Marking the first Hindi-language film for director Atlee, it drops September

Victoria Song / The Verge: Meta rolls out an early access multimodal AI to Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, primarily to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions  —  When the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses launched last fall, they were a pretty neat content capture tool and a surprisingly solid pair of headphones. Source

Baldur’s Gate 3’s second patch is right around the corner, with Larian Studios suggesting that it’s a ‘chonky’ one. In a community update post on Steam, the developer revealed that the patch will be focused on improving performance issues, specifically in Act 3, where players have reported laggy cutscenes and stutters when the camera pans

Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge: Apple announces a “special Apple Event” on May 7, where new iPads will likely be unveiled  —  After kicking off 2024 with the launch of the Vision Pro, the next act in Apple’s 2024 script is a May product launch event.  Apple has started inviting members of the media to

Over 1.9 million videos were removed between January and March 2023 in India for violating YouTube’s community guidelines, marking the highest removals among nations, according to a report released by the popular video streaming platform. During the same period, globally, YouTube removed over 6.48 million videos for violating community guidelines. The Community Guidelines Enforcement report

Dave Lee / Bloomberg: As Congress’ TikTok bill moves ahead, lawmakers must show the public on what grounds the government is banning a popular and culturally significant platform  —  Congress must show the evidence to gain Americans’ support for its proposed sale or ban of one of the world’s most popular social networks. Source link

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, plans to launch video and audio calls as owner Elon Musk races to build an “everything app” to stay ahead of competition from Meta Platforms-owned Threads.  Users will not need a phone number for the features that will be available on Apple‘s iOS, Google‘s Android and personal computers, Musk