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Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: A look at the book The Anxious Generation, as some say author Jonathan Haidt falls short in showing that social media is causing a teen mental health crisis  —  Jonathan Haidt wrote a best-selling book about teens and social media.  Not everyone buys its thesis  —  I. Source link

Apple has warned users in several countries that they might have been the target of a mercenary spyware attack. The alert was issued to iPhone owners in 92 countries and the company has not attributed these attacks to specific groups and has not revealed a list of countries where users were alerted. Meanwhile, the iPhone

Bloomberg: A US official says the OFAC is investigating several US and foreign companies for shipments of chips with military applications that ultimately end up in Russia  —  – US, EU increasingly concerned about Russian sanctions evasion  — US analyzing data from over 600 distributors selling to Russia Source link

Instagram will test features that blur messages containing nudity to safeguard teens and prevent potential scammers from reaching them, its parent Meta said on Thursday as it tries to allay concerns over harmful content on its apps. The tech giant is under mounting pressure in the United States and Europe over allegations that its apps

New York Times: Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about AI models costing ~$10B to train, why AI models are close to being “able to replicate and survive in the wild”, more  —  Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode with Dario Amodei. Source

Mistral released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, 8X22B, on Wednesday. The mixture-of-expert AI model follows the 8X7B model released in December 2023 and offers a larger parameter size. The company known for its fully open-source AI models released the latest model unconventionally, without any announcement posts or blog posts accompanying it. While there are

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Elon Musk’s xAI previews Grok-1.5 Vision, its first multimodal model, and says the AI model will be available soon to “early testers and existing Grok users”  —  Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival has introduced its first multimodal model.  Not only can it understand text … Source link

Meta, on Wednesday, unveiled its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), its family of custom-made chipsets for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The upgrade to its AI chipset comes almost a year after the company introduced the first AI chips. These Inference Accelerators will power the tech giant’s existing and future products, services, and the

Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: Google researchers detail a technique that gives LLMs the ability to work with text of infinite length while keeping memory and compute requirements constant  —  A new paper by researchers at Google claims to give large language models (LLMs) the ability to work with text of infinite length. Source link

Amazon Mega Electronics Days Sale is now live on the e-commerce platform and customers can avail of massive discounts on several electronics products. During the ongoing sale, buyers can avail of discounts of up to 80 percent on several products. Meanwhile, if you have an SBI credit card, ICICI Bank credit card HDFC credit or