Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
With around $100 billion in annual sales by the end of this decade up for grabs, the GLP-1 drug war for the global waistline is heating up. Around two weeks back, Novo Nordisk created a media spectacle out of a study that claimed its GLP-1 weight loss drug could slash death risk from heart disease by up to 20 percent. This salvo was apparently fired in response to the steeply discounted price at which Eli Lilly and Company began marketing its own GLP-1 drug. Well, today, the American pharma giant is again attacking Novo Nordisk's proverbial front lines, resplendent in […]
After a horrendous 2023 - characterized by persistently muted demand for electric vehicles, especially when compared with rosy projections for the industry at the turn of the decade - much of the EV industry lies in tatters for believing in the false paradigm that there would always be enough demand for electric vehicles, that you can sell whatever you produce. This patch of inky darkness has so far spared two of the industry's biggest players, Tesla and BYD, courtesy of the proverbial hell that they have unleashed on the rest of the EV players by engaging in an escalating price […]
Chinese personal computing and technology firm Huawei has become one of the few companies of its kind in the world to test out a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet network similar to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service. Starlink is the world's largest LEO constellation, and it owes its size to SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, which has made rocket launches a regular occurrence of daily life in the 21st century. Details of Huawei's test were shared on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, with slides from a presentation showing that the LEO satellite test delivered download speeds of as […]
After a remarkable weekend in Silicon Valley that saw its latest innovation, A.I., sitting dead center between typical corporate boardroom politics, OpenAI's former C.E.O Sam Altman returned to his company triumphantly. Altman's friction with OpenAI's board has caused a lot of discourse in social and traditional media, with the disagreements believed to stem from the divide between OpenAI and its holding company's profit/non-profit nature. However, a for-profit approach might not have been the only reason for the divide, as a fresh report from the New York Times shares that a key source of friction was a research paper written by […]
The limited ability of the current iterations of Large Language Models (LLMs) to comprehend increasing loads of context remains one of the biggest impediments at the moment to achieving AI singularity - a threshold at which artificial intelligence demonstrably exceeds human intelligence. At first glance, the 200K-token context window for Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM appears impressive. However, its context recall proficiency leaves much to be desired, especially when compared with the relatively robust recall abilities of OpenAI's GPT-4. Our new model Claude 2.1 offers an industry-leading 200K token context window, a 2x decrease in hallucination rates, system prompts, tool use, […]
After OpenAI co-founders set aside their differences to work together again, former and current CEO Sam Altman announced his return to the company late at night yesterday. The announcement was confirmed by the company, too, on X, after xAI CEO Elon Musk shared a letter on GitHub with stunning allegations against the firm that was formed as a moonshot attempt at humanity's first artificial general intelligence (AGI) computing software. OpenAI's ChatGPT, trained on the latest semiconductors designed by NVIDIA Corporation, has been the center of media coverage for a year now, and with the fairy tale completing its first 12 […]
Just when you thought there could not possibly be any more climactic twists left in this ongoing saga, former OpenAI employees have come forward to level serious allegations against the just-deposed CEO, Sam Altman. What's even more surreal, the letter from these employees has landed in the hands of Elon Musk who has now called for a thorough investigation. For the benefit of those who might not be aware of all of the intricate details in this live soap opera, OpenAI's board of directors sent shockwaves throughout the global tech sector on Friday when it dismissed Sam Altman for not […]
After having delivered several blockbuster quarters this year, chip designer NVIDIA Corporation continued its aggressive growth in its third quarter of the fiscal year 2024. NVIDIA shared its earnings report for the quarter moments back, showing that the firm's revenue grew by a whopping 206% annually to sit at $18.12 for the period. This growth follows a year ago quarter that came during a slump in the semiconductor industry, and NVIDIA's triple-digit percentage revenue growth came as its bread and butter data center division grew by 279% on an annualized basis to $14 billion from an unbelievable $3.8 billion in […]
The ambitious CEO is fired by the company's uptight board of directors. The fired CEO nurses his bruised ego by decamping to a quasi-competitor's headquarters. The employees revolt against the board, baying for blood and retribution. Chaos, drama, heartbreak, and poignancy: you'd think I was narrating the plot of a fast-moving corporate thriller. Instead, these are the events currently unfolding at OpenAI's HQ, prompting Microsoft to usurp the startup's global AI leadership, benefitting the tech behemoth's shareholders, including the former US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. OPENAI STAFF THREATENING TO QUIT OVER ALTMAN EXIT NOW TOP 700 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) November […]
After a year-long slump that has seen its revenue drop annually for most of the year, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is slated to post strong first-quarter results next year, according to estimates from analysts. TSMC is the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, and the firm caters to the needs of big-ticket firms such as NVIDIA Corporation and Apple Inc. Demand for its products has been slow this year as the chip industry digests inventory ordered through optimistic forecasts. However, recent trends have indicated that the supply glut is clearing up, and more orders from its biggest customers can […]
A "juvenile 4-person board" and "kids' poker" are some of the words being bandied about today as the entire social media collectively erupts with hot takes on the power moves that transpired over the weekend, relegating the erstwhile apex predator of the world of generative artificial intelligence to the dustbin of history as Microsoft ascends the proverbial throne while treading on OpenAI's crumbling carcass. What Happened? As we reported on Friday, OpenAI's board of directors fired its then-CEO, Sam Altman, with nary a prior notice for not being "consistently candid," a deliberately vague charge that immediately set the proverbial tongues […]
The owner of X social media platform, Elon Musk, just can't seem to catch a reprieve. After being accused of both anti-Semitism as well as supposedly pandering to the Jewish lobby, Musk now finds himself in an unenviable position of trying to soothe the tempers of agitated advertisers, who seem intent on jumping the proverbial ship. As we hinted in a recent post, Elon Musk recently waded into the controversy surrounding the Gaza war by responding in the affirmative to an X post that accused the Jewish communities of pushing "dialectical hatred" against the whites. And, at the risk of […]
With around $100 billion in annual sales by the end of this decade up for grabs, the GLP-1 drug war for the global waistline is heating up. Around two weeks back, Novo Nordisk created a media spectacle out of a study that claimed its GLP-1 weight loss drug could slash death risk from heart disease by up to 20 percent. This salvo was apparently fired in response to the steeply discounted price at which Eli Lilly and Company began marketing its own GLP-1 drug. Well, today, the American pharma giant is again attacking Novo Nordisk's proverbial front lines, resplendent in […]
After a horrendous 2023 - characterized by persistently muted demand for electric vehicles, especially when compared with rosy projections for the industry at the turn of the decade - much of the EV industry lies in tatters for believing in the false paradigm that there would always be enough demand for electric vehicles, that you can sell whatever you produce. This patch of inky darkness has so far spared two of the industry's biggest players, Tesla and BYD, courtesy of the proverbial hell that they have unleashed on the rest of the EV players by engaging in an escalating price […]
Chinese personal computing and technology firm Huawei has become one of the few companies of its kind in the world to test out a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet network similar to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service. Starlink is the world's largest LEO constellation, and it owes its size to SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, which has made rocket launches a regular occurrence of daily life in the 21st century. Details of Huawei's test were shared on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, with slides from a presentation showing that the LEO satellite test delivered download speeds of as […]
After a remarkable weekend in Silicon Valley that saw its latest innovation, A.I., sitting dead center between typical corporate boardroom politics, OpenAI's former C.E.O Sam Altman returned to his company triumphantly. Altman's friction with OpenAI's board has caused a lot of discourse in social and traditional media, with the disagreements believed to stem from the divide between OpenAI and its holding company's profit/non-profit nature. However, a for-profit approach might not have been the only reason for the divide, as a fresh report from the New York Times shares that a key source of friction was a research paper written by […]
The limited ability of the current iterations of Large Language Models (LLMs) to comprehend increasing loads of context remains one of the biggest impediments at the moment to achieving AI singularity - a threshold at which artificial intelligence demonstrably exceeds human intelligence. At first glance, the 200K-token context window for Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM appears impressive. However, its context recall proficiency leaves much to be desired, especially when compared with the relatively robust recall abilities of OpenAI's GPT-4. Our new model Claude 2.1 offers an industry-leading 200K token context window, a 2x decrease in hallucination rates, system prompts, tool use, […]
After OpenAI co-founders set aside their differences to work together again, former and current CEO Sam Altman announced his return to the company late at night yesterday. The announcement was confirmed by the company, too, on X, after xAI CEO Elon Musk shared a letter on GitHub with stunning allegations against the firm that was formed as a moonshot attempt at humanity's first artificial general intelligence (AGI) computing software. OpenAI's ChatGPT, trained on the latest semiconductors designed by NVIDIA Corporation, has been the center of media coverage for a year now, and with the fairy tale completing its first 12 […]
Just when you thought there could not possibly be any more climactic twists left in this ongoing saga, former OpenAI employees have come forward to level serious allegations against the just-deposed CEO, Sam Altman. What's even more surreal, the letter from these employees has landed in the hands of Elon Musk who has now called for a thorough investigation. For the benefit of those who might not be aware of all of the intricate details in this live soap opera, OpenAI's board of directors sent shockwaves throughout the global tech sector on Friday when it dismissed Sam Altman for not […]
After having delivered several blockbuster quarters this year, chip designer NVIDIA Corporation continued its aggressive growth in its third quarter of the fiscal year 2024. NVIDIA shared its earnings report for the quarter moments back, showing that the firm's revenue grew by a whopping 206% annually to sit at $18.12 for the period. This growth follows a year ago quarter that came during a slump in the semiconductor industry, and NVIDIA's triple-digit percentage revenue growth came as its bread and butter data center division grew by 279% on an annualized basis to $14 billion from an unbelievable $3.8 billion in […]
The ambitious CEO is fired by the company's uptight board of directors. The fired CEO nurses his bruised ego by decamping to a quasi-competitor's headquarters. The employees revolt against the board, baying for blood and retribution. Chaos, drama, heartbreak, and poignancy: you'd think I was narrating the plot of a fast-moving corporate thriller. Instead, these are the events currently unfolding at OpenAI's HQ, prompting Microsoft to usurp the startup's global AI leadership, benefitting the tech behemoth's shareholders, including the former US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. OPENAI STAFF THREATENING TO QUIT OVER ALTMAN EXIT NOW TOP 700 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) November […]
After a year-long slump that has seen its revenue drop annually for most of the year, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is slated to post strong first-quarter results next year, according to estimates from analysts. TSMC is the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, and the firm caters to the needs of big-ticket firms such as NVIDIA Corporation and Apple Inc. Demand for its products has been slow this year as the chip industry digests inventory ordered through optimistic forecasts. However, recent trends have indicated that the supply glut is clearing up, and more orders from its biggest customers can […]
A "juvenile 4-person board" and "kids' poker" are some of the words being bandied about today as the entire social media collectively erupts with hot takes on the power moves that transpired over the weekend, relegating the erstwhile apex predator of the world of generative artificial intelligence to the dustbin of history as Microsoft ascends the proverbial throne while treading on OpenAI's crumbling carcass. What Happened? As we reported on Friday, OpenAI's board of directors fired its then-CEO, Sam Altman, with nary a prior notice for not being "consistently candid," a deliberately vague charge that immediately set the proverbial tongues […]
The owner of X social media platform, Elon Musk, just can't seem to catch a reprieve. After being accused of both anti-Semitism as well as supposedly pandering to the Jewish lobby, Musk now finds himself in an unenviable position of trying to soothe the tempers of agitated advertisers, who seem intent on jumping the proverbial ship. As we hinted in a recent post, Elon Musk recently waded into the controversy surrounding the Gaza war by responding in the affirmative to an X post that accused the Jewish communities of pushing "dialectical hatred" against the whites. And, at the risk of […]