📨 Substack Goes Social, Apple AI Vote, BigCode's New Release
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Substack gets more social with the launch of DMs. Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the company announced today. DMs can be accessed in the Chat tab on the Substack app and website. By default, users will only receive DMs from people they are connected to. By Aisha Malik via TechCrunch
𝕏: Substack just added direct messages and I already want to know how to turn off the feature. I’m a magnet for crazy MAGA folks and I don’t really want to put up with abusive emails and trolls all day long. I purposefully set it up so only paid subscribers can comment. - Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews)
Apple Shareholders Vote Down Request for AI Transparency Report. Shareholders approve recommendations for board, executive pay Longtime directors Al Gore and James Bell officially step down Apple Inc. shareholders rejected a labor-backed request for an artificial intelligence transparency report, which would would have delved into whether the company is using the technology ethically. By Mark Gurman via Bloomberg
𝕏: Tim Apple better cook otherwise Apple is cooked. - Beff Jezos — e/acc (@BasedBeffJezos)
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StarCoder2 and The Stack v2. BigCode is releasing StarCoder2 the next generation of transparently trained open code LLMs. All StarCoder2 variants were trained on The Stack v2, a new large and high quality code dataset. We release all models, datasets, and the processing as well as the training code. Check out the paper for details. By Leandro von Werra via Hugging Face
𝕏: NVIDIA, Hugging Face, and ServiceNow release TheStack v2, a massive code dataset🌸 - 37 TB of de-duplicated code - 913B tokens - 619 programming languages - Omar Sanseviero (@osanseviero)
Welcome to the Era of BadGPTs. A new crop of nefarious chatbots with names like “BadGPT” and “FraudGPT” are springing up on the darkest corners of the web, as cybercriminals look to tap the same artificial intelligence behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Just as some office workers use ChatGPT to write better emails, hackers are using manipulated versions of AI chatbots to turbocharge their phishing emails. By Belle Lin via WSJ
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding. Figure AI raised $675 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI. The startup says it will use the money to accelerate development of its humanoid robot, which is intended for commercial use. Founded in 2022, Figure AI has developed a general-purpose robot, called Figure 01, that looks and moves like a human. Figure AI, a startup working to build humanoid robots that can perform dangerous and undesirable jobs, just got a big vote of confidence from some of the largest names in artificial intelligence. By Annie Palmer via CNBC
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