Despite Spending $100 billion on AI Google is still no where close to a real ai assistant | Amazon Walkout failure and how no one making money with ai but with something else.. (www.arktrek.shop)
OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (www.businessinsider.com)
New Orleans Loses Bid to Tax Music Streaming Service (natlawreview.com)
The New Orleans Collector of Revenue (“Collector”) failed in its attempts to subject music streaming services to the City’s sales tax. In* *http://labta.louisiana.gov/pdfs/ApplefinalMSJ.pdf, Docket No. L01283 (May 2, 2024), the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, Local Tax Division, analyzed the Company’s summary judgment...
Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail (hackaday.com)
The Mac vs. PC war is back on? (www.theverge.com)
I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal....
Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? (news.ycombinator.com)
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
This AI Paper from Huawei Introduces a Theoretical Framework Focused on the Memorization Process and Performance Dynamics of Transformer-based Language Models (LMs) (www.marktechpost.com)
A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial (thenameless.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/165906...
The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem (www.theverge.com)
ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t (www.vox.com)
Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
OpenAI announces GPT-4o, new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. (openai.com)
The decline of Intel.. (www.arktrek.shop)
The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)
How are Microchips Made? | Branch Education (youtube.com)
The channel has excellent visuals for the different steps
New Teslas might lose Steam (www.theverge.com)
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)
When TikTok therapy is more lucrative than seeing clients (www.vox.com)
Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director (foundation.mozilla.org)
The linked article is the intro message from her. I copied a part of it here:...
Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.extremetech.com)
