A look at Discogs, a user-generated music database and marketplace for physical music media, as sellers complain about the website's old tech and increased fees — A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which could impact fields like customer service, HR, mental health — Artificial Intelligence is getting smart enough to express and measure human empathy. Here's how the new technology could change healthcare …
Q&A with Dr. Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, on generative AI in medicine, privacy risks, responsible deployment, and more — The dean of Stanford University's medical school thinks artificial intelligence will transform the medicines you take, the care you get and the training of doctors
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release true AR glasses in 2025 and a cheaper Quest — Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 haven't even been released yet, but the two companies are already deep into work on follow-up products.
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud between January 2021-June 2023 said it started on social media, resulting in losses worth $2.7B — Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.
The UK FCA plans to name firms violating its crypto promotion rules, which will be widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location — - Watchdog will add firms to warning list starting on Sunday — The UK's Financial Conduct Authority will move fast to name …
A research paper details how decomposing groups of neurons in a neural network into interpretable “features” may improve safety by enabling monitoring of LLMs — Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training …
IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones between 2016 and 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the last 12 months — Google Pixel is still a minor player in the global smartphone market, but the brand continues to move along. As the Pixel 8 series launched this week …
Amazon's Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen citing sources from Rumble and Substack; Amazon says the errors were fixed — The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source — foreshadowing a new information battleground
The US adds 42 Chinese companies and seven companies from India, the UK, and other countries to an export control list over their support for Russia's military — The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over their support …
A look at SoftBank-owned PayPay, which holds a two-thirds share of the QR-code payments market in Japan and could be next in the conglomerate's IPO pipeline — - Firm chases gross merchant value growth of over 30% this year — PayPay seen to be next in SoftBank's arsenal of possible IPOs
Bloomberg : Montenegro says Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to the US, potentially ending a standoff over competing ...
