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Uber Denies Implementing Phone Model-Based Pricing in India
Uber said it does not set ride prices based on a user's phone model. India's consumer affairs minister Pralhad Joshi said on X on Thursday that the Central Consumer Protection Agency (CCPA) had sent notices to the companies over the alleged price disparity or "differential pricing".
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Microsoft Introduces Magnetic-One Generalist Multi-Agent AI System That Can Complete Complex Tasks
Microsoft introduced a new multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Magnetic-One on Monday. The tech giant called it a high-performing system that can activate multiple AI agents to complete complex tasks via web browsers on locally on a device. It is based on a new framework that allows an AI model to access multiple modalities and c...
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Tech Executive Calls Upgrade To iPhone 16 Pro "Waste Of Time", Internet Agrees
Aditya Agarwal, a prominent Indian-born tech executive based in San Francisco, recently expressed his dissatisfaction with the newly released Apple iPhone 16 Pro.
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Anthropic Rolls Out ‘Tool Use’ Designed to Provide More Accurate Responses For Claude-3 AI Models
Anthropic started rolling out a new feature for its family of artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude-3, on Thursday. Dubbed Tool Use or Function Calling, this feature enables Claude to interact with external tools and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to perform a wide variety of tasks. This way, the AI chatbot can perform tasks which ...
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Call of Duty: MW 3, Warzone Season 1 Is Out Now: New Maps, Drivable Trains, Zombies Story Mission, More
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone have kicked off their Season 1 content, bringing new maps, game modes, and more. Warzone plays host to the new Urzikstan map, a large metropolis with traversal options like a drivel train and horizontal zip lines. Meanwhile, the base game gets three new close combat maps and a new Assassin Vest perk that m...
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Unity Engine’s Installation-Based Fee Prompts Backlash From Game Developers: Details
Unity will soon charge developers a certain fee based on the number times a game is installed onto a system. The plan is called Unity Runtime Fee and it goes into effect starting January 1, 2024, upsetting indie developers around the world, who are bound to make a loss and potentially, go bankrupt because of it. For those on Unity Personal and Plus...
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Gran Turismo Takes a Meta Turn on Hollywood’s Newfound Video Game Adaptation Craze
When director Neill Blomkamp got a call to direct a movie based on a racing simulator, he was understandably confused since it has no main characters that would lend to a Hollywood adaptation. Gran Turismo instead bases itself on a 2008 marketing stunt, where Sony and Nissan launched a competition in which top Gran Turismo video gamers could test t...
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News Organisations Call for Regulations on Content Use by AI Makers, Reveals Letter
A group of the world's biggest news media organizations called for revised regulations on the use of copyrighted material by makers of artificial intelligence technology, according to an open letter published on Wednesday. The note batted for a framework enabling media companies to "collectively negotiate" with AI model operators regarding the oper...
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Meta Releases Open-Source AI Tool AudioCraft to Create Music and Audio
Meta Platforms on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music, sound, compression and generation, Meta said. MusicGen is trained using company-owned and specifically l...
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Adobe Adds Generative AI Features to Photoshop; Says Will Make Editing, Creating Images Faster
Adobe on Tuesday said it is adding artificial intelligence (AI) technology for generating imagery into Photoshop, its flagship software for editing images. The San Jose, California-based company said it was the start of a major push to add such AI technologies to its suite of programs aimed at creative professionals.
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ChatGPT’s Greatest Achievement Might Just Be Its Ability to Trick Us Into Thinking That It’s Honest
ChatGPT, and other generative AI chatbots like it, are trained on vast datasets from across the internet to produce the statistically most likely response to a prompt. Its answers are not based on any understanding. It presents its responses through what’s called a “conversational interface”.
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Bandai Namco Invests in Pune-Based Game Studio SuperGaming: Details
Japanese publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment, best known for Elden Ring and Pac-Man, has invested in two gaming technology startups — SuperGaming from India and Deepmotion from the US. SuperGaming is known for its mobile game such as Silly Royale and MaskGun and is currently working on its indo-futuristic battle-royale title Indus. The company a...
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Quentin Tarantino’s Supposed Final Film Is Reportedly Titled ‘The Movie Critic’
Quentin Tarantino’s supposed final film is reportedly called ‘The Movie Critic.’ As per The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is being prepped to begin filming this autumn and is likely set in the late in 1970s Los Angeles, with a female lead. The report mentions that the project could be based on the renowned film critic Pauline Kael, who briefl...
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Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT, Google's LaMDA
Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The technology has become popular, and controversial, in recent months as more companies have started to build them and ...
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Swiggy Lays Off 380 Employees, CEO Calls Overhiring Case of 'Poor Judgement'
Swiggy on Friday announced that it had laid off 380 employees, as Co-Founder and CEO Sriharsha Majety said the growth rate for food delivery has slowed down versus the company's projections. The firm has offered a cash payout ranging from three to six months based on the affected employees' tenure and grade.
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Uber Denies Implementing Phone Model-Based Pricing in India
Uber said it does not set ride prices based on a user's phone model. India's consumer affairs minister Pralhad Joshi said on X on Thursday that the Central Consumer Protection Agency (CCPA) had sent notices to the companies over the alleged price disparity or "differential pricing".
-
Microsoft Introduces Magnetic-One Generalist Multi-Agent AI System That Can Complete Complex Tasks
Microsoft introduced a new multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Magnetic-One on Monday. The tech giant called it a high-performing system that can activate multiple AI agents to complete complex tasks via web browsers on locally on a device. It is based on a new framework that allows an AI model to access multiple modalities and c...
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Tech Executive Calls Upgrade To iPhone 16 Pro "Waste Of Time", Internet Agrees
Aditya Agarwal, a prominent Indian-born tech executive based in San Francisco, recently expressed his dissatisfaction with the newly released Apple iPhone 16 Pro.
-
Anthropic Rolls Out ‘Tool Use’ Designed to Provide More Accurate Responses For Claude-3 AI Models
Anthropic started rolling out a new feature for its family of artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude-3, on Thursday. Dubbed Tool Use or Function Calling, this feature enables Claude to interact with external tools and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to perform a wide variety of tasks. This way, the AI chatbot can perform tasks which ...
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Call of Duty: MW 3, Warzone Season 1 Is Out Now: New Maps, Drivable Trains, Zombies Story Mission, More
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone have kicked off their Season 1 content, bringing new maps, game modes, and more. Warzone plays host to the new Urzikstan map, a large metropolis with traversal options like a drivel train and horizontal zip lines. Meanwhile, the base game gets three new close combat maps and a new Assassin Vest perk that m...
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Unity Engine’s Installation-Based Fee Prompts Backlash From Game Developers: Details
Unity will soon charge developers a certain fee based on the number times a game is installed onto a system. The plan is called Unity Runtime Fee and it goes into effect starting January 1, 2024, upsetting indie developers around the world, who are bound to make a loss and potentially, go bankrupt because of it. For those on Unity Personal and Plus...
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Gran Turismo Takes a Meta Turn on Hollywood’s Newfound Video Game Adaptation Craze
When director Neill Blomkamp got a call to direct a movie based on a racing simulator, he was understandably confused since it has no main characters that would lend to a Hollywood adaptation. Gran Turismo instead bases itself on a 2008 marketing stunt, where Sony and Nissan launched a competition in which top Gran Turismo video gamers could test t...
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News Organisations Call for Regulations on Content Use by AI Makers, Reveals Letter
A group of the world's biggest news media organizations called for revised regulations on the use of copyrighted material by makers of artificial intelligence technology, according to an open letter published on Wednesday. The note batted for a framework enabling media companies to "collectively negotiate" with AI model operators regarding the oper...
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Meta Releases Open-Source AI Tool AudioCraft to Create Music and Audio
Meta Platforms on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music, sound, compression and generation, Meta said. MusicGen is trained using company-owned and specifically l...
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Adobe Adds Generative AI Features to Photoshop; Says Will Make Editing, Creating Images Faster
Adobe on Tuesday said it is adding artificial intelligence (AI) technology for generating imagery into Photoshop, its flagship software for editing images. The San Jose, California-based company said it was the start of a major push to add such AI technologies to its suite of programs aimed at creative professionals.
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ChatGPT’s Greatest Achievement Might Just Be Its Ability to Trick Us Into Thinking That It’s Honest
ChatGPT, and other generative AI chatbots like it, are trained on vast datasets from across the internet to produce the statistically most likely response to a prompt. Its answers are not based on any understanding. It presents its responses through what’s called a “conversational interface”.
-
Bandai Namco Invests in Pune-Based Game Studio SuperGaming: Details
Japanese publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment, best known for Elden Ring and Pac-Man, has invested in two gaming technology startups — SuperGaming from India and Deepmotion from the US. SuperGaming is known for its mobile game such as Silly Royale and MaskGun and is currently working on its indo-futuristic battle-royale title Indus. The company a...
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Quentin Tarantino’s Supposed Final Film Is Reportedly Titled ‘The Movie Critic’
Quentin Tarantino’s supposed final film is reportedly called ‘The Movie Critic.’ As per The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is being prepped to begin filming this autumn and is likely set in the late in 1970s Los Angeles, with a female lead. The report mentions that the project could be based on the renowned film critic Pauline Kael, who briefl...
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Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT, Google's LaMDA
Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The technology has become popular, and controversial, in recent months as more companies have started to build them and ...
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Swiggy Lays Off 380 Employees, CEO Calls Overhiring Case of 'Poor Judgement'
Swiggy on Friday announced that it had laid off 380 employees, as Co-Founder and CEO Sriharsha Majety said the growth rate for food delivery has slowed down versus the company's projections. The firm has offered a cash payout ranging from three to six months based on the affected employees' tenure and grade.
