The right is claiming that political correctness – not capitalism – caused this financial catastrophe. Really? You’d think that witnessing the second-biggest bank failure in US history would be a sobering moment. Since Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday amid a bank run, however, Republicans have instead been twisting themselves into inelegant pretzels to blame …
Latest version can take images as inputs and improves upon many of the criticisms users had, but will still ‘hallucinate’ facts The artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI has released GPT-4, the latest version of the groundbreaking AI system that powers ChatGPT, which it says is more creative, less likely to make up facts and less …
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Restructuring, as part of the company’s ‘Year of Efficiency’, also sees 5,000 unfulfilled job adverts closed Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is laying off another 10,000 people and instituting a further hiring freeze as part of the company’s “Year of Efficiency”, the chief executive announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday. The restructuring, which also sees a …
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Nintendo Switch, Platinum Games/NintendoThis cutesy origin tale replaces the guns and sex appeal of the original action series with fairies and cuddly toys. But this anti-Bayonetta will introduce younger players to the genre Risque, immature, absurd – just some of the words you could use to describe Platinum Games’ inimitably sexually charged action franchise, Bayonetta. …
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Twenty pools may be upgraded this year after startup uses energy from small data centre to heat water Public swimming pools facing closure because of soaring energy bills have been offered a lifeline via new technology to heat the water. Mark Bjornsgaard, the chief executive of the tech startup Deep Green, has trialled the idea …
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In this week’s newsletter: While its quick slip into financial hardship has left American bankers reeling, its UK division is surprisingly fine. But the tech sector isn’t out of trouble yet Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Last week, if you had heard of Silicon Valley Bank …
With cheap apps proliferating, how long til our likeness appears in a nonconsensual deepfake porn video? In the ad, a woman in a white lace dress makes suggestive faces at the camera, and then kneels. There’s something a bit uncanny about her; a quiver at the side of her temple, a peculiar stillness of her …
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In the US, the Federal Reserve has stepped in to guarantee deposits. The tech sector should realise it can’t go it alone Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) became one of the 20 largest banks in the US by being the darling of west coast tech startups, but it transpires that it expanded at the expense of …
Two in five Venmo users reveal ‘sensitive information’ on the app – we hear from those who discovered something big Officially, Venmo is an app for transferring money from one person to another. In the US, where most banks do not offer instant free money transfers, it was revolutionary for simple things like splitting the …
Firm says moves in west to block video app on government phones have been ‘based on misplaced fears’ TikTok has said it would be “disappointed” if it was banned from UK government devices, after it was reported that ministers were due to follow the example of the US, Canada and the European Commission in blocking …
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