🤝 Yahoo Acquires AI News App Artifact, ChatGPT Now Accessible Without Account, Google to Destroy Incognito Browsing Data
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Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders. Instagram's co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale. Yahoo has hundreds of millions of readers — but could use a dose of tech-forward cool to separate it from all the internet’s other news aggregators. And so, the two sides are joining forces: Yahoo is acquiring Artifact, the companies announced on Tuesday. By David Pierce via The Verge
𝕏: Yahoo is buying AI news app Artifact just weeks after laying off the leaders of Engadget and some editors at TechCrunch - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
ChatGPT no longer requires an account - but there's a catch. OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven’t bothered making an account. It won’t be quite the same experience, however — and of course all your chats will still go into their training data unless you opt out. Starting today in a few markets and gradually rolling out to the rest of the world, visiting chat.openai.com will no longer ask you to log in — though you still can if you want to. By Devin Coldewey via TechCrunch
𝕏: No login required to use https://chat.openai.com with GPT 3.5 now (in some markets) I wonder how their scraping prevention works? I imagine the temptation for people to abuse this as a free 3.5 API will be pretty strong - Simon Willison (@simonw)
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Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle ‘Incognito’ Lawsuit. Google plans to destroy a trove of data that reflects millions of users’ web-browsing histories, part of a settlement of a lawsuit that alleged the company tracked people without their knowledge. The class action, filed in 2020, accused Google of misleading users about how Chrome tracked the activity of anyone who used the private “Incognito” browsing option. By Erin Mulvaney via WSJ
𝕏: wow. super interesting data point on impact to Google's revenues from 3rd party cookie blocking (aka privacy)... connecting dots. Left: Google's redacted estimate of impact on blocking 3rd party tracking cookies in Chrome's private mode (aka Incognito). - Jason Kint (@jason_kint)
Is this AI? See if you can spot the technology in your everyday life.. Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere. Fueled by huge technological advances in recent years and gobs of venture capitalist money, AI has become one of the hottest corporate buzzwords. Roughly 1 in 7 public companies mentioned “artificial intelligence” in their annual filings last year, according to a Washington Post analysis. But the term is fuzzy. By Kevin Schaul via Washington Post
Apple researchers develop AI that can 'see' and understand screen context. Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can understand ambiguous references to on-screen entities as well as conversational and background context, enabling more natural interactions with voice assistants, according to a paper published on Friday. The system, called ReALM (Reference Resolution As Language Modeling), leverages large language models to convert the complex task of reference resolution — including understanding references to visual elements on a screen — into a pure language modeling problem. By Michael Nuñez via VentureBeat
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