The smart glasses race is really on now
Last month, I had a conversation with someone wearing glasses — and couldn’t see that they had a display right in front of one of their eyes. Through a monitor connected to the glasses, I watched in awe as my…
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Welcome to the Xbox $360 era
When Microsoft first revealed that it would be giving day-one Game Pass releases to all of its own Xbox games back in 2018, it suddenly turned the subscription service into a must-have for many fans. It was lauded as “the…
4 tips for using Nano Banana to create amazing images
Get the scoop on how to use Nano Banana, the Gemini app’s viral new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind.
AI Engineering and Evals as New Layers of Software Work
How to maintain reliability in inherently stochastic systems The post AI Engineering and Evals as New Layers of Software Work appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Amazon’s Vega OS launch trick: cloud-streamed apps
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Vega OS is finally here: On Tuesday, Amazon officially unveiled its new, custom-built Vega entertainment…
Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
The Trump administration declared war on the “terrorist organization” of “antifa” and the supposed “networks” associated with it last week. Antifa is not so much a vast national conspiracy as it is simply an abbreviation for anti-fascism – but don’t…
A new a16z report looks at which AI companies startups are actually paying for
a16z releases its first AI spending report that shows which AI-native application layer companies startups are actually spending money on .
China Rolls Out Its First Talent Visa as the US Retreats on H-1Bs
The Chinese government unveiled a program to woo foreign talent just as the US cracked down on H-1Bs with a $100,000 fee. The move immediately provoked xenophobic backlash.
Amazon halts drone deliveries in Arizona after a pair crashed into a crane
Amazon has paused drone deliveries in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area after a pair of its MK30 drones crashed into a crane. The crash happened on Wednesday morning at around 10AM local time in Tolleson, Arizona, approximately two miles…
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati introduces Tinker, an API for fine-tuning of open-weight LLMs
Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has introduced its first product: Tinker, an API for training language models. The article Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati introduces Tinker, an API for fine-tuning of open-weight LLMs appeared first…