Godspeed, tech news fan
I wish I could prepare you for what you’re about to hear I really do high doses of tech news can overwhelm the senses and trigger a catatonic state
Nvidia’s $2 trillion, new Nvidia App
You’ll be fine Nvidia fueled by rabid demand for its AI accelerators briefly hit a$2 trillion market cap for the first time this morning joining an exclusive Club occupied by Apple and Microsoft who immediately started talking about
How their neighborhoods really going downhill but Axios notes that Nvidia’s climb can’t go on forever because the companies that want all those expensive
Nvidia GPUs to power their fancy new AI features like Microsoft and Google recently reported earnings that disappointed their own investors
because as cool as it is to give everyone free access to Bing that doesn’t suck when something is free it means users don’t pay for it and that is financial advice
you can take that to the bank where they’ll ask you to leave Come on it’s a joke Nvidiacould also soon face competition as companies continue developing their own custom AI chips Microsoft
just made a $15 billion deal with Intel on that front although Nvidia doesn’t seem too worried about that the company listed its top competitors as Huawei AMD AmazonMicrosoft
and Broadcom in its annual report which I assume had the Thanosmeme as an attachment but in a sign that Nvidia hasn’t forgotten that some people play games on its GPUs it also launched a Beta
for the Nvidia app a supposed replacement for and merging of the GeForce experience and the Nvidia control panel on Windows, it doesn’t require you to log in unless you care about potential account-based rewards
Overall it seems like a much better option than splittingGraphics settings across two separate apps some of them just like feel like a control panel thing you know
I only hope that Nvidia doesn’t pull a Windows and keep their old control panel around while they make the new settings app more and more garbage for fun Google has
Gemini image gen, Stable Diffusion 3
Paused its Gemini chatbot capability to generate images after widespread complaints about how hesitant it was to create images of white people sure there’s no real reason why drawing a hypothetical pope of color would be problematic
but I’m not sure the same could be said about depicting your average racially diverse platoon of German soldiers Circa 1943
they were trying to correct historical injustices Gemini would even refuse to generate anything if asked about white people specifically leading to increasingly creative prompts asking for pictures of a medieval Knight or someone eating a mayo sandwich on White Bread
I’m not going to lie I would eat it’s all you eat sure call me out like that in some cases the model also refused to specifically depict Latino people who I’m sorry to report are no longer diverse in their blog post-Google.
explained that when they added Gemini’simage generation feature 3 weeks backpack when it was still barred rip they tuned it to ensure that it represented a wide range of types of people to avoid
the real documented phenomenon of AImodels waiting for images of white people more heavily than images of non-white people causing a prompt for something like a black Tech News host to give you this
and if you didn’t know I’m white it’s not open AI does something similar but it seems like they’ve managed to do so without turning all the dials up to11
if you want to test how well open-source image generator stable diffusion did version 3 was just released in an early preview while its diversity quotient is still unclear it seems to have largely caught up with mid-journey
and Dolly in terms of depicting shapes and pets the most important so hopefully Google Tunesup their AI models a bit better because Chrome’s new help me write
feature AI-generated schlock is going to be just a right-click away okay shapes pets and one day.
Reddit’s IPO, AI deal with Google
Hispanics Reddit has confirmed leaks from last week that it would go public but because it’s Reddit they had to do so in a quirky way that’s kind of charming as long as you do it in the right
sub the company filed its initial public offering yesterday to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange as Reddit ticker symbols are usually just your company name
but cuter interestingly in addition to offering stocks to your standard institutional investors Redditsays they’ll also offer them to its top users including moderators as determined by their
Reddit Karma proves that it’s not worthless it’s worth the chance to lose your money gambling Reddit also confirmed a leak claiming it had struck
a Content licensing deal with a major AI company which turned out to be Google will have direct access to Reddit’s API for a rumored 60 million bucks a year
now if your Reddit data being collected to train AI rubs you the wrong way Reddit points out in their filing that well everyone was already doing that anyway including Open AI whose CEO Sam
Alman is Apparently one of Reddit’s biggest investors which is doing much to dispel the notion that he has a plan to take over the world through the power of shrewd Investments
and scanning everyone’s eyes into the crypto ball’ll help I’m sure now we have your eyes leave my balls alone Alman
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Owners have reported identical issues where hairline cracks form on their headset coverglass an unfortunately noticeable problem
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