Month: November 2024

Elon Musk targets OpenAI’s for-profit transition in a new filing

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Illustration: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images In a new motion filed late Friday in his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk’s attorneys have asked for a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from transitioning to a for-profit enterprise, reports TechCrunch. They also asked the judge to forbid the company from continuing alleged practices that … Read more

Bluesky promises more verification and an ‘aggressive’ approach to impersonation

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As more celebrities and popular influencers join Bluesky, the fast-growing social media service has been facing more concerns around impersonation and verified identity. The Bluesky Safety team posted Friday that the company has updated its impersonation policy to be “more aggressive,” adding that “impersonation and handle-squatting accounts will be removed.” The company said it should … Read more

Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit

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Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other named defendants from engaging in what Musk’s counsel claims is anticompetitive behavior. The motion for an injunction, which was filed late on Friday in the … Read more

Fortnite’s latest concert turned pop stars into kaiju

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Image: Epic Games Fortnite’s most recent virtual concert was supersized in multiple ways. Unlike previous events, which focused on specific artists like Ariana Grande or Metallica, this one featured a cast of four different artists: Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ice Spice, and the late Juice WRLD. And it turned each one of the large lineup into … Read more

Why Choose Home Assistant?

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Last June, I spoke at Berlin Buzzwords. In all honesty, I rarely attend others’ talks for a variety of reasons: lack of time, lack of energy, no interest in the proposed subjects, etc. When I do, I go either for subjects I know and want to deepen my understanding of or for subjects I know … Read more

Embeddings for RAG – A Complete Overview

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This article starts with the transformers and looks at its shortcomings as an embedding model. It then gives an overview of BERT and deep dives into Sentence BERT (SBERT) which is the state-of-the-art in sentence embeddings for LLMs and RAG pipelines. Visual Explanation If you are a visual person like me and would like to … Read more

Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike

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As one of the most decorated track cyclists of all time, Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to back the burgeoning electric bike movement. The common refrain, after all, is that e-bikes aren’t real bikes. However, the six-time Olympic gold medalist has done exactly that, investing in a fledgling U.K. startup that … Read more