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Microsoft’s New Partnership Announcement

Microsoft has announced a new partnership with a French AI company and open AI rival, Mistel. Truly a sad day for shippers of Microsoft and Sam Altman, also known by the community as Maltman.

The multi-e agreement is apparently a part of Microsoft’s new AI access principles to promote innovation and competition in the AI space through investments, partnerships, and programs. Microsoft loves programs.

Mistal AI has only been around for about a year but they’ve made some serious waves and secured record-breaking financial backing. Mral just launched their new flagship language model apply named large LGE. This and other LLMS from the company will now be offered on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. Mol is also rolling out a multilingual chatbot called Lea which is masculine French for the cat but which will likely be mispronounced by hapless English speakers as the feminine word for cat which is of course extremely vulgar slang. Thanks, France.

With this deal, Microsoft appears to be shifting away from open AI and Sam Altman. Microsoft president Brad Smith himself said, “Sam is brilliant, but just as the printing press evolved beyond Gutenberg, AI is evolving beyond any single individual.” It’s a very poetic argument for a polyamorous relationship post Singularity world is going to be freaky.

Samsung’s Latest Innovation – The Galaxy Ring

Samsung publicly unveiled the Galaxy Ring at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona today. Though no one was allowed to take pictures, the ring will allegedly have a longer battery life than Samsung’s own smartwatches and offer health services like heart rate monitoring, sleep tracking, and even fertility tracking thanks to a partnership with the Natural Cycles birth control app. But Samsung may have some competition on the horizon in the form of Apple.

A Korean outlet, ET News, allegedly spoke to an industry insider who claims that advanced development for commercialization of an Apple smart ring is imminent. Mark Gman, however, doesn’t entirely agree. Mark Shark with the spark to hunt for stories in the dark says that an Apple ring is currently just an idea and Gman claims it isn’t the only one. Apple is apparently exploring multiple wearable devices such as smart glasses similar to Meta’s Ray-Ban partnership. The Cupertino company is even considering adding cameras to their AirPods that could then be used to capture data for a multimodal AI system which is also like Meta smart glasses but could allow for a smaller form factor.

I hate this idea. Of course, these ideas are merely early stage explorations. Apple probably won’t seriously consider releasing these until they can figure out a way to sell them for $3,500 or $300 5 years after several other companies already doing it.

Highlights from Mobile World Congress 2024

Mobile World Congress 2024 kicked off in Barcelona today, and there have already been a massive amount of weird and wonderful announcements. Here’s a roundup of some of the best so far:

• Avanir Telecom used its license of Drumming Rabbit company Energizer to slap a smartphone inside a 28,000 mAh battery.
• HMD is partnering with Mattel to release the Barbie flip phone this summer.
• Motorola showed off a bendable phone concept that wraps around your wrist when used in combination with a special magnetic bracelet.
• Lenovo’s see-through laptop allows for privacy invasion in a whole new way.
• Xiaomi’s Cyber Dog 2 is poised to replace your dog with one that can talk to you and do backflips. Take that, Fido.

Quick Bits

I hardly know bits. But honestly, I’ve thought about asking bits out because there might be something there. Google just announced they’re rolling out more AI features in Google Messages, Android Auto, and more less than a week after causing controversy over whether its Gemini AI is racist. Strike while the iron’s hot.

Microsoft is currently testing a new method of making critical updates for Windows 11 without requiring a reboot called hot patching. The summer’s hottest patching is already in use in Windows Server and Xbox. The new feature should debut later this year and hopefully stop Microsoft from spoiling your killstreak with yet another annoying update.

AMD launched a China-exclusive cut down version of the RX 7900 XT graphics card back in August called the 7900 GR Golden Rabbit Edition, but now they’re setting it free to travel the world and compete with Nvidia’s RTX 4070. That card just got its price drop to $550, so that’s what the 1700 GRE will cost as well. Great news for gamers.

Reddit’s official IPO filing claims the popularity of subreddit Wall Street Bets is a stock price risk due to the extreme volatility it caused in meme stocks like GameStop. Reddit’s user base as a whole isn’t super thrilled about the IPO and Reddit’s attempts to monetize them. Elon works at one of those.

One man used the power of Twitter to jailbreak a prison laptop he bought on eBay. Most people may have given up on a laptop with no OS, no storage, or no USB ports, but Twitter user Wenting isn’t most people. With the power of the internet’s public square on his side, Wenting hotwired a USB hub to the laptop, somehow managed to get a permanent storage solution despite the laptop’s hard drive ban list, and then did what anyone else would do after hacking a prison laptop – freedoom. No really, Freedoom the free game for the Doom engine. That’s what he played.

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