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No 'security testing' or 'crackdown' plans for smartphone makers: Govt
Responding to a media report, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said that there is no "security testing" or "crackdown" plans for smartphone makers at the end of the government. "@GoI_MeitY is 100 per cent committed to 'Ease of Doing Business' and is totally focused on growing electronics manufacturing to touch $300 billion by 2026," the minister said in a tweet.
Engineers who joined in-person perform better than remote workers: Zuckerberg
According to him, the early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they.
Anthropic introduces ChatGPT's rival 'Claude'
"Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic's research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems," the company said in a blogpost on Tuesday. The new chatbot is accessible through chat interface and API in the company's developer console, and is capable of a wide variety of conversational and text-processing tasks while maintaining a high degree of reliability and predictability.
Reddit back in order after brief outage
The company tweeted from its 'Reddit Status' account: "Resolved: Alright, things are back in order. We're peeling a lot better now! Thanks for your patience." Taking to Twitter, several users had reported the issue. While one user posted: "Anyone else's Reddit gone down?", another said: "Is Reddit down or is this the universe trying to tell me to get a life?"
OpenAI announces new AI model 'GPT-4' that accepts image, text inputs
"We've created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI's effort in scaling up deep learning," the company said in a blogpost on Tuesday. We've spent 6 months iteratively aligning GPT-4 using lessons from our adversarial testing program as well as ChatGPT, resulting in our best-ever results on factuality, steerability, and refusing to go
Microsoft's flagship developer conference 'Build' in May, to focus on AI
A Twitter leaker published a marketing image of Microsoft Build dates that is slated to be in-person this time. The company was yet to make the dates of its flagship event official. Last year, Microsoft's annual developer conference Build was limited in-person as well as in full virtual format.
Meta CEO fires 10K more employees, shuts 5K additional open roles
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said overall, "we expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven't yet hired" in the company's "year of efficiency". In a separate filing with the US SEC, Meta said the new job cuts will lower the high end of its expense guidance for the year by $3 billion.
'Times are hard, road ahead is going to be tough': Sacked Meta worker
Sutha Sehgar, who worked as a talent acquisition, wrote in her LinkedIn post: "Apparently it's a tradition to take badge photo when you leave Meta but I did not realise that the timeline would be this short. Meta laid off 11K of its staff and unfortunately, I'm impacted too together with my wonderful teammates."
Samsung S23 Ultra AI 'doesn't apply' any image overlaying to Moon photos, says company
The company told IANS that when a user takes a photo of the Moon, "the AI-based scene optimisation technology recognizes the Moon as the main object and takes multiple shots for multi-frame composition, after which AI enhances the details of the image quality and colours".
Samsung may ditch Exynos chipsets for Galaxy S24 series
According to a Twitter leaker, smartphones in the Galaxy S24 series will not use an Exynos SoC anywhere in the world, reports SamMobile. Therefore, the S24 series will likely be similar to the latest S23 series, and is expected to come packed with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor. According to rumours, the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC might come with 1+5+2 CPU core architecture featuring one Cortex-X4 mega-core clocked at up to 3.75GHz.
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