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Shall I Propel the Usual?
Two days after Twitch allowed artistic nudity on the platform, the company has reversed that decision, to the shock of no one. It took two days too long to catch you up.
OnlyFans model Morgpie went viral for supposedly streaming topless, taking part in what was turning out to be an emerging meta. While Morgpie claims she was wearing a shirt just out of frame, we have our doubts. There’s a clip, but it’s not in our sources. Stop looking for it, and we won’t claim to be experts on the female form, but one of us studied physics and let’s just say the footage was gravitationally anomalous.
Intel’s Latest Launch
Intel launched their new Core Ultra Mobile processors, their first consumer CPUs with built-in neural processing units, during the company’s AI Everywhere event. What if you don’t want AI to be everywhere? Too bad. The H series is designed for thin and light gaming workstation laptops, while the U series is meant for Ultrabooks. Apparently, there has been a massive improvement in the integrated graphics, though Intel’s previous attempts in the iGPU front have set a pretty low bar.
They had a higher bar to clear with their new fifth-gen Xeon processor since they will be competing against AMD’s excellent EPYC platform. Team Blue is really pushing the AI angle here, with the data center chips emphasizing the baked-in AI acceleration and calling the new Xeon the best CPU for AI hands down.
Privacy Concerns with Cox Media
A marketing company called Cox Media Group claims they can listen to consumers’ ambient conversations through microphones in devices like smartphones to gather data for ad targeting. Even worse, they thought saying that was a solid business strategy. The company advertised active listening on their site as a marketing strategy for potential clients, calling it a marketing technique fit for the future, available today.
They mixed up their marketing textbook with 1984. Cox Media has since removed the page from their site, probably because it’s not a good look. And also, though they might actually be lying. Conclusive proof for the common suspicion that our phones are listening to everything we say has been very difficult to find. Even if Cox Media could listen to people through their phones, most models today indicate when the microphone is being used. Actually, that’s a feature exclusive to iPhones, according to Apple Insider.
Google Chrome’s Changes
Google Chrome will finally start blocking third-party cookies next year, merely years after every other browser. In a post on their official blog, the company will start testing their tracking protection feature on January 4th, starting with just 1% of global Chrome users. Google says they will reach every Chrome user at some point in the second half of next year.
In other Google news, the company has announced that it is changing how it handles Maps data so it will no longer be able to access users’ individual location histories. The change appears to be designed to make it pointless for law enforcement to serve Google with geofence warrants. In other other Google news, the company has released an on-device diagnostic tool and repair manuals for Pixel phones, announced in a blog post just one day after Apple announced they were launching web-based diagnostic tools for iPhones.
AI Discoveries
AI researchers at DeepMind claim that one of their large language models is the first one to discover new verifiable solutions for open problems in mathematics. The model, using a method called Fun Search, was able to discover multiple never-before-seen solutions to the well-known cap-set math problem and the bin-packing problem in computer science. Unlike biology or chemistry, these disciplines allow AI to make discoveries that can be tested without the risk of blowing up the lab or triggering a Last of Us situation. Math can’t hurt you – it’s not even real; some of it’s imaginary.
AI News Network
AI startup Channel One has created a proof-of-concept pilot episode for a 24/7 news network featuring a team of fully generated news anchors and AI-augmented news coverage. The news stories are reportedly at least partially drawn from existing news sources and edited by human beings.
