Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team  —  Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu… Continue Reading →

This self-driving startup is using generative AI to predict traffic

Self-driving company Waabi is using a generative AI model to help predict the movement of vehicles, it announced today. The new system, called Copilot4D, was trained on troves of data from lidar sensors, which use light to sense how far… Continue Reading →

The TikTok divestment bill’s progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor (New York Times)

New York Times: The TikTok divestment bill’s progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor  —  Legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app… Continue Reading →

The Download: AI’s gaming prowess, and calculating methane emissions

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI that can play Goat Simulator is a step toward more useful machines The news: A new… Continue Reading →

Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are storing, instead of selling, second-hand chipmaking machines over fears of breaking US export controls and sanctions (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are storing, instead of selling, second-hand chipmaking machines over fears of breaking US export controls and sanctions  —  Samsung and SK Hynix have been storing used machines in warehouses as US-China tensions rise … Continue Reading →

The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI’s model (Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI’s model  —  Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top… Continue Reading →

The SEC’s new climate rules were a missed opportunity to accelerate corporate action

This week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission enacted a set of long-awaited climate rules, requiring most publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse-gas emissions and the climate risks building up on their balance sheets.  Unfortunately, the federal agency watered… Continue Reading →

How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections

While the vendors pitched their latest voting machines in Concord, New Hampshire, this past August, the election officials in the room g­­asped. They whispered, “No way.” They nodded their heads and filled out the scorecards in their laps. Interrupting if… Continue Reading →

X’s audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users’ IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: X’s audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users’ IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting  —  The new X calling feature can hurt your privacy  —  In his quest… Continue Reading →

The Download: tech help for herders, and bacteria clean-ups

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why shiny, high-tech solutions won’t solve one of Africa’s worst crises Herding— one of humanity’s most foundational ways… Continue Reading →

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