Emails from the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google have revealed what Microsoft executives are up to He is alarmed and even envious of Google’s leadership in artificial intelligence.
CTO Kevin Scott wrote in an email message that Google is “very, very concerned” about its rapidly growing AI capabilities. He initially dismissed the company’s “gaming stunts,” referring to Google’s AlphaGo models, he said. Emails refer to Gmail’s autocomplete features, which execs call “scary good.” Microsoft has struggled to copy Google’s BERT-large model, an AI model that deciphers the meaning and context of words in a sentence. It took the company six hours to replicate the model, while Google went even further with more sophisticated, larger models.
Scott said there are “very smart” people on Microsoft’s machine learning teams, but their ambitions are curbed and their company is “several years behind the competition in terms of ML scale.” All this gave OpenAI a billion dollar boost in 2019. Since then, it has invested $13 billion.
– Matt Smith
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LinkedIn, the career-focused social network, is coming into play. But the serious, word-based games your mom let you play when you were a kid. LinkedIn describes them as “thinking games,” though the format will look familiar to fans of The New York Times Games. You can only play each game once per day and you can share your score with your friends. And maybe… start a conversation about how you can help each other with targeted SaaS projects. Yes, I have a feeling about who hit me on LinkedIn.
It appears to be directing users to “avoid in-app service fees.”
TikTok allegedly violates Apple’s App Store rules, with the app allowing (and even recommending) certain users to purchase their coins directly from the website. TikTok has apparently given some iOS users the option to “Try to top up on tiktok.com to avoid in-app service fees” — meaning Apple’s 30 percent commission on purchases is more likely not to be passed on to those users. It is definitely not available to all users and it seems to be there for TikTok users who have bought a lot of coins before – TikTok if you want.
Someone extracted the APK and put it on an Android phone.
Rabbit R1, a pocket-sized artificial intelligence virtual assistant device, runs the Android operating system. Now, early adopters have been able to mock the R1 APK, install it on their Android phone and make it work, though not with all the features. If so, what’s the point of a $200 gadget?
in a comment sent to Android Authority, Rabbit CEO Jesse Liu said Rabbit R1 is “not an Android app.” He added that R1 runs on a very custom AOSP (Android Open Source Project) build and low-level firmware mods, so a native bootleg APK won’t be able to access most R1 services. We’re wrapping up our detailed review – stay tuned.
