Month: May 2024

Redefining Economic Forecasts: How insytz’s Algorithm Could Have Predicted the Great Recession

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Few events demonstrate a clear, back-to-back domino effect quite like the Great Recession of 2008. It was a time marked by a housing market collapse, widespread economic downturn, and seismic disruptions across the global financial system. The devastating aftermath left economists and analysts all wondering one crucial thing: could this have been predicted? It’s widely … Read more

Hands-on with the Surface Laptop on Arm

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Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge The Surface Laptop for non-business types is here, and Microsoft hopes that after four years of Apple Silicon, its new Arm-based “AI PC” has a shot at MacBooks. The sapphire and slightly pink dune color options are fetching in person, and the 13.8-inch screen size feels generous for the … Read more

Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air

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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is confident that it finally nailed the transition to Arm chips — so confident that, this time around, the company spent an entire day pitting its new hardware against the MacBook Air. On a recent morning at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft representatives set out new Surface devices equipped with Qualcomm’s … Read more

Why do LLMs Hallucinate?

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GPT-4o is out, but the problem of AI hallucination is still alive and kicking. Hallucination in LLMs is a pretty succinct way of saying “My AI assistant is spitting out incorrect or nonsensical information”. Think of wrong dates, historical inaccuracies, or responses that have nothing to do with your prompt. Things like that. LLM hallucinations … Read more

Meta’s Oversight Board takes its first Threads case

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Meta’s Oversight Board has now extended its scope to include the company’s newest platform, Instagram Threads. Designed as an independent appeals board that hears cases and then makes precedent-setting content moderation decisions, the board to date has decided on cases like Facebook’s ban of Donald Trump, Covid-19 misinformation, the removal of breast cancer photos, and … Read more

Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements

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Image: Allison Johnson Microsoft just wrapped up its special event ahead of Build 2024, and it had a lot of exciting news to share. Along with updates to its Surface lineup, Microsoft made some major announcements related to AI and a new era of PCs in partnership with Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and others. Microsoft didn’t … Read more

We Do A Little With Chikai

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In this week’s episode, we sit down with our good friend and one of the biggest supporters of the pod, Chikai Ohazama. Chikai is the co-founder of Keyhole which was acquired by Google and became Google Earth. He is one of the most caring art collectors in our space, as well as an extremely talented … Read more

Asus’ first Copilot Plus PC is the Vivobook S 15

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Photo: Asus Following Microsoft’s Windows event, Asus announced its first Copilot Plus PC laptop, the Vivobook S 15 (S5507), driven by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X-series processors. Asus says the Arm-based chip will not only improve a few current Vivobook features but also make new AI-driven programs and workloads fly with 45 TOPS of neural processing power. … Read more

FOMO HOUR 120 – SOLANA LEADS THE CHARGE

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SOL again leads majors, DEX volume dwarfs others. BTC whales buys $106M in 24hrs. ETH ETF decision on Thursday or Friday. 5 of 7 onchain indicators ‘point to bull-run’. ETH ETF may be rejected due to weak link to futures. AI coins in focus ahead of Nvidia earnings. Cobie inks new article on low float, … Read more

Google thinks the public sector can do better than Microsoft’s ‘security failures’

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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Google is pouncing on Microsoft’s weathered enterprise security reputation by pitching its services to government institutions. Pointing to a recent report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) that found that Microsoft’s security woes are the result of the company “deprioritizing” enterprise … Read more