Thursday, March 30, 2023

How to enrol into Apple Swift Student Challenge: Steps by step guide, things to keep in mind and more

Apple has announced the Swift Student Challenge. According to Apple, Swift Student Challenge is aimed at students and young developers who have just started with software development and nurturing their skills. https://ift.tt/PIeJwZ7

Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January after complaining that Bard was being trained with ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January after complaining that Bard was being trained with ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge  —  Google's Bard hasn't exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested …



FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more (Pranav Dixit/BuzzFeed News)

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more  —  FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right.  Its makers say that is the point.



Berlin-based Parloa, which uses AI and low-code tools to automate call center operations, raised a €20M Series A led by EQT Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Berlin-based Parloa, which uses AI and low-code tools to automate call center operations, raised a €20M Series A led by EQT Ventures  —  It's estimated that over $400 billion are spent annually to run customer contact centers around the world.  To cut costs, in recent years …



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...