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More than half a million UniSuper fund members had no access to their superannuation accounts for a week after a misconfiguration led to the financial services provider's private cloud account being deleted.
This interview with Jack Dorsey discusses his exit from Bluesky, how Twitter lost its way, Dorsey's strategy for ending censorship forever, Elon Musk, and the death of social media as we know it.
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If you want to see the future of AI-powered hospitality, look no further than Jurny [4]. And if you want to invest in that future - now's your chance [4].
A former Google ML Head of Product and an MIT professor have raised money from a16z's new game fund for generative 3D character creation.
Stability AI has introduced Stable Artisan, a system combining all of its models that can be run from Discord. This is likely a play to compete directly with Midjourney.
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is previewing a new model that converts prompts into song lyrics. The company is using a promotional strategy similar to the one OpenAI used for Sora AI.
Predicting more than one token at a time is an interesting paradigm of active research. If successful, it would dramatically improve generation time for many large language models. The approach in this post, which mirrors consistency models from image synthetics, attempts to use a parallel decoding strategy on fine-tuned LLMs to speed up generation. Early results match speculative decoding performance of 3x.
The YOCO architecture is a decoder-decoder model that reduces GPU memory demands while retaining global attention capabilities. It consists of a self-decoder and cross-decoder, allowing for efficient caching and reuse of key-value pairs. YOCO achieves favorable performance compared to traditional Transformers, with significant improvements in inference memory, latency, and throughput, making it suitable for large language models and long context lengths.
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Click _capture_ when you start and _stop_ when you're done - then sit back and let Guidde's generative AI [10] do the rest. Guidde will add a step by step description of your workflow [10], include a voiceover in the language of your choice (100+ voices available), and make it
Buzz is a novel dataset that includes preference data in the pretraining mix. Its researchers have also released several models that were trained using this data. They found that the models perform well on a number of human preference tasks.
This new post-processing algorithm addresses model bias by applying a "fairness cost" to recalibrate output scores, ensuring compliance with various group fairness criteria such as statistical parity, equal opportunity, and equalized odds.
DiffMatch is a novel semi-supervised change detection method that leverages visual language models to synthesize pseudo labels for unlabeled data, providing additional supervision signals.
Discussion of the various ways to extend context for language models. It doesn't provide much in the way of evaluations, but it's a fascinating discussion of where the field is exploring.
A comprehensive survey that explores Mamba's applications across various visual tasks and its evolving impact. Stay updated on new findings and advancements on the Mamba project.
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Paris-based Mistral AI is raising funds at a valuation of $6 billion, tripling its previous valuation from December.
OpenAI's Preferred Publishers Program, detailed in a pitch deck, offers financial incentives and enhanced visibility within ChatGPT for select news publishers.
Alibaba Cloud has launched the latest version of its large language model, Tongyi Qianwen Qwen2.5, marking significant improvements in reasoning, code comprehension, and textual understanding over Qwen2.0.
Robinhood received a Wells Notice from the SEC indicating the SEC will proceed with civil enforcement despite meeting with the SEC 16 times to discuss registering as a special purpose broker-dealer for crypto assets. Vlad Tenev, Robinhood's CEO, criticized the SEC's approach as "regulation by enforcement" and emphasized the importance of defending both Robinhood's position and customer's right to access crypto.
Binance's market surveillance team, hired to prevent manipulative trading, found that VIP customers like DWF Labs engaged in pump-and-dump schemes and wash trading. The team also discovered that Binance maintained secret internal trading accounts. After these findings, Binance fired the investigator and kept DWF Labs as a client. The SEC has accused Binance of misleading U.S. investors about its risk controls.
Octane is an open-source, modular implementation of the EVM designed to simplify the integration of the EVM into any blockchain application. By incorporating technology from Cosmos and Ethereum, it is capable of sub-second finality, low query latencies, and high transaction throughput. It will be used for creating Layer 1 networks and decentralized sequencers for L2s.
Orb Labs has launched Orby, a chain abstraction provider that simplifies interactions across different blockchains by unifying user accounts and assets, enabling transactions on any chain. Orby provides two main tools: OrbyEngine, a Smart RPC endpoint for connecting and managing accounts across chains, and OrbyKit, an SDK that allows dapps to provide their users with a chain-agnostic experience regardless of which wallet is being used.
Vitalik Buterin discusses how Ethereum has traditionally used gas to manage computational resources (computation, storage, data transmission, and cryptographic proof generation) and represent them as a cost metric. He argues that this approach has some limitations given it doesn't effectively describe the limits of each computational resource. By shifting towards a "multi-dimensional gas system", Ethereum will be able to better align costs with the actual demands and capacities of these computational resources.
RWA tokens reached an all-time high market capitalization of $2.7 billion in February and are expected to grow as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Tether join the narrative. Though stablecoins are the biggest RWA sector, others like commodities, equities, and stocks are beginning to be released. Onchain private credit has already seen $4.4 billion in tokenized loans through protocols like Centrifuge, Maple, and Goldfinch. Real estate tokenization, spearheaded by Parcl and RealT, simplifies property fractionalization and property acquisition.
Donald Trump- and Joe Biden-inspired memecoin prices have risen significantly over the last 24 hours. The MAGA coin is up 44% and the Biden coin is up 22%. This rally seems to stem from Trump recently announcing that his campaign will accept crypto donations.
This post discusses how fully onchain games have the potential to create new gaming experiences by solving challenges that have not been addressed by traditional games. Some of these challenges include creating assets with real value from day one, facilitating efficient value transfer between players, and enabling high-stakes spending.
Binance has denied recent allegations of market manipulation by DWF Labs, which resurfaced following reports of $300 million worth of wash trading in 2023.
Despite controversy, there's a push for more Blast-native assets, reflecting a trend toward creative assets amidst crypto's memecoin season.
The FTX bankruptcy case highlights the issues with "dollarization" in crypto bankruptcies.
Robinhood's first-quarter notional crypto trading volume was $36 billion, leading to revenue of $126 million.
Duncan Kerr, a pivotal Apple designer responsible for various iPhone, iPad, and Mac features and a Jony Ive's original team member, is set to leave the company after over two decades. His exit follows a series of veteran Apple design team members departures, signaling a significant shift in the company's design department, which is now led by COO Jeff Williams.
New features in Sketch 100 include a significant prototyping update, a redesigned web app, better prototype sharing, two workflow-enhancing tools, the ability to pin documents and projects, new token exports, and improvements to the web app notifications view. There are also minor updates to permission groups and archiving.
TikTok will now label AI-generated content with an "AI-generated" tag, even if created on other platforms. It is the first social media platform to support the new Content Credentials metadata tags. Content Credentials support will go through a multi-phase implementation to enhance content authenticity. Support for the Adobe-developed tagging system comes as TikTok partners with Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative as well as the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity.
Steve Johnson, Netflix's VP of design, reveals how Netflix designs its system and what he thinks of gaming, the Apple Vision Pro, and generative AI. During this interview, Johnson discusses Netflix's interface, business priorities, future-thinking, and figuring out what you want to watch next on the platform.
Wacom's addressable market will likely shrink significantly after the new iPad Pro M4 and Apple Pencil Pro are released. The Pencil Pro has become a serious alternative to professional styluses, with features like the new squeeze gesture, rotation tracking, and haptic feedback.
Muuu Milk challenges conventions by offering high-quality products with a playful twist and reimagining the consumption of milk. Its packaging, a delightful fusion of creativity and functionality, is central to Muuu's identity. Each package is adorned with charming illustrations depicting milk flowing in a deliciously whimsical manner complemented by vibrant stickers that infuse life into the Muuu universe.
The People + AI Guidebook is a set of methods, best practices, and examples for designing with AI written by Google. It's based on data and insights from over a hundred Googlers, industry experts, and academic research.
Icônes offers you instant access to 100+ icon sets.
Generate stylistically consistent illustrations in minutes using pre-designed models or by uploading your creations.
Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas, began producing plimsolls in 1920 and officially established "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik" in 1924. Later, in 1949, he introduced the iconic three-striped sports shoe design, leading to a company name change to "Adidas" due to trademark issues, marking a pivotal moment in the brand's history.
The MoonRay production renderer started as a tool within DreamWorks Animation. It is now fully open-source, following a similar path to Pixar's RenderMan. This article examines the tool's strengths, such as the Monte Carlo ray tracer, limitations, such as its steep learning curve, and why it might be worth considering for your next project.
Generative AI has seeped into personal and professional realms, yet its potential as an experienced assistant for researchers still needs to be explored and utilized. This article emphasizes the importance of training GenAI through tailored prompts, understanding its limitations and biases, and equipping it with context to extract valuable insights. It highlights the need for researchers to continuously learn and adapt to harness GenAI's evolving capabilities effectively.
Incorporating unproven technology with a high potential for harm could be an edgy move, but it could also hurt a company's reputation, especially if transparency and responsible AI are lacking.
In celebration of Star Wars Day, Autodesk has partnered with Disney and Lucasfilm to challenge creatives to design a droid.
OK Boomer is a modern, bright trivia game that taps into different generations' knowledge, events, and experiences.
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Yuval Noah-Harari, Eric Brynjolfsson, Daniel Susskind, Tyler Cowen, Vivienne Ming — this is just part of the lineup of extraordinary speakers [5] at the Future Talent Summit [6], happening in Stockholm on June 18-19. On the agenda [4]: how will AI impact the future of Society, Business, Education and Work? And how can we prepare for this paradigm shift?