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Karissa Bell / Engadget: X tells users “the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium is going away soon”, after X began adding blue checks to “influential” users with 2,500+ followers  —  The change comes after X began verifying “influential” users who hadn’t signed up for premium. Source link

OpenAI announced a major improvement to its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4 Turbo on Tuesday. The AI model now comes with computer vision capabilities, allowing it to process and analyse multimedia inputs. It can answer questions about an image, video, and more. The company also highlighted several AI tools which are powered by GPT-4

Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: WPP announces a collaboration with Google, integrating Gemini AI tools with WPP data to create scripts, product images, and more for ad clients like Coca-Cola  —  The groundbreaking partnership implies Google’s robots could begin creating ads for world-leading brands like Coca-Cola.  —  Chat with SearchBot Source link

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk‘s brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients. Those with paralysis due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may qualify for the study, it said but

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: Grow Therapy, which provides services like patient-provider matching and EHR to help therapists run their own practices, raised an $88M Series C led by Sequoia  —  mental health funding round venture capital (VC) Sequoia Capital  —  Grow Therapy, a mental health technology startup … Source link

Some workers within Amazon’s once-storied hardware division – responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice-assistant – say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and a pipeline of devices in development that they fear are unlikely to prove hits. The division, known as Lab126, was a focus for Amazon’s

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: A look at Android 15’s Private Space feature, similar to Samsung’s Secure Folder, which creates a separate profile for hiding apps and data  —  With Private Space in Android 15, you can hide your most sensitive apps and data from other people.  —  •  —  TL;DR Source link

Researchers at Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s artificial intelligence arm, on Tuesday introduced a tool that predicts whether genetic mutations are likely to cause harm, a breakthrough that could help research into rare diseases. The findings are “another step in recognising the impact that AI is having in the natural sciences,” said Pushmeet Kohli, vice

Nico Grant / New York Times: Docs: after months of staffers sniping about the war in Gaza, Google is tweaking its internal message board Memegen, removing “thumbs down”, post metrics, more  —  The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship. Source link

OpenAI might have used more than a million hours of transcribed data from YouTube videos to train its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4, claims a report. It further states that the ChatGPT maker was forced to procure data through YouTube as it had exhausted its entire supply of text-word resources to train its AI