Tesla Optimus can’t do that. The Figure AI robot received voice, hearing and vision thanks to OpenAI technologies
It seems that Musk has a one more reason to hate OpenAI.
Viral photo of «Hollywood Mountain» in California turned out to be a fake generated by a neural network
Perhaps you’ve come across a stunning bird’s-eye view of «Hollywood Mountain» in California on Facebook or BlueSky? It turns out that it was completely generated by artificial intelligence — in fact, there is no place with that name.
US regulator accuses Musk of trying to «distort» Twitter takeover investigation
The billionaire is suspected of «fraud» with shares on the eve of the acquisition of Twitter, which could potentially earn him about $150 million.
The EU Parliament has approved the AI Act — «the world’s strictest» law on artificial intelligence regulation. What’s next?
After reaching political consensus in December, EU lawmakers approved by a majority vote (523 — «for») a landmark document that will regulate AI and require transparency from suppliers, reports The Verge.
«Diia» officially Open Source — and already available on Github
From now on, any IT professional will be able to analyze the technology and offer their own solutions to improve the application, and governments around the world will be able to learn about Ukraine’s digitalization experience and use the code to create their own public services.
The first trailer for the Disney series about the legendary couturier Karl Lagerfeld. Premiere — June 8
Series tell about Lagerfeld’s rise to the top of the fashion world, starting in 1972, and his position as an unknown designer of ready-to-wear.
Midjourney is testing a function that will allow «to save» the image of a given character to generate future images
From now on, users can provide the neural network with a reference image of a person and set up the generation so that the next image looks the same.
«Wild disappointment»: tech manager says the internet is stagnating», just like space exploration after the 1970s
Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of the moment when renowned computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee presented his vision of what would become known as the «World Wide Web». At the same time, Akamai’s Chief Technology Officer Robert Blumoff believes that after a breakthrough and years of development, the Internet is now stagnating.
Variety: Christopher Nolan earned «Oppenheimer» $100 million — director received bonuses for winning «Oscars»
The director’s final fee includes salary, bonuses, a percentage of box office receipts, and a bonus for awards at «Oscar 2024».
Larry Ellison is $15 billion richer after Oracle shares soar 12% to record high
Today, Allison is one of the five richest people in the world in of the Forbes rating with a net worth of $157.3 billion.
The third «Venom» will be released earlier (October 2024), but the sequel to «Batman» with Robert Pattinson «has been delayed until 2026.
The third installment of the «Venom» franchise has finally received the official title — Venom: The Last Dance, as well as new release date — October 25, 2024 (instead of the previously announced November 8).
A rare Devil’s comet will sweep over Earth in the coming weeks. How to see?
You’ll need good weather, binoculars or a telescope — and a little bit of luck.
Ari Aster casts Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal in next A24 movie «Eddington»
It is probably a new horror movie, the production of which will start this week.
At the «Oscars», the composer of «Oppenheimer» thanked his parents for «giving him guitars and drums instead of video games»
Ludvig Joransson received his second statuette for music to «Oppenheimer», but in his emotional speech spoke somewhat arrogantly about video games.
Trump offered Musk to buy Truth Social, — The Washington Post
Both tried in different ways to create their own «platform for freedom of speech».
Michael Keaton says he didn’t understand his cameo in «Morbius» and wouldn’t mind returning to the role of Batman
Box office news about «Madame Web» now are not without mention about another failed movie from Sony’s Spider-Man universe, — «Morbius» with Jared Leto.
A giant «sand battery» can provide heat to an entire city in Finland for a week
A pilot plant developed by Polar Night Energy has been operating since 2022, and now an industrial (10 times larger) «sand battery» is to be launched in Finland for use during cold polar nights.
Virus spreads on X due to an ad for actress Sydney Sweeney’s nudes
The topic «Sidney Sweeney Leak» has become especially popular on Elon Musk’s social media, but in the end, it leads users not to exclusive nude images of the actress, but to malware.
«The Ukrainian interface was actually knocked out» — ex-director of Google Ukraine on localization of services
Dmytro Sholomko, who headed Google’s representative office in Ukraine for 17 years (and resigned last October), gave an interview to the DOU publication and, among other things, touched upon the topic of Ukrainian localization of the company’s services.
A cut scene from David Lynch’s 1984 film adaptation of «Dune» has been published online
Writer Max Evry, who wrote the book «A Masterpiece In Disarray (David Lynch’s Dune – An Oral History)», acquired footage from actress Molly Vrean, who played Garou (Alia Atrid’s nanny) in the film.
Midjourney bans Stability AI employees after data theft attempt
At the beginning of the month, the service faced a 24-hour outage — allegedly due to «botnet activity» two accounts associated with a competitor company, Stability AI.
«20 Days in Mariupol» and Chernov’s speech were not included in the shortened international TV version of the «Oscars»
The organizers of this year’s broadcast of the «Oscars» cut the «Best Feature Documentary» category (along with several other categories) from the shortened international telecast, which won a film by Ukrainian director Mstislav Chernov «20 days in Mariupol».
How do you like this, OpenAI? Elon Musk to open source his Grok chatbot
Last week, Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI with accusations of abandoning the original mission «to develop AI for the benefit of humanity» in favor of making money.
«Dune: Part Two» grossed $367.5 million in 11 days — almost as much as the first film earned in its entire run
The second part of Denis Villeneuve’s «Dune» added $81 million from 72 international markets in its second week of release, bringing its total foreign box office to $210.5 million. Combined with the considerable earnings of the domestic box office ($157 million), «Dune: Part Two» grossed $367.5 million in 11 days — only $66.4 million…
YouTube stopped showing recommendations after logging out of Google account and in incognito mode
Instead, users are shown a homepage without videos and viewing tips.
Three writers to sue Nvidia for illegal use of their books for AI training
The class action lawsuit, filed Friday night in a San Francisco federal court, says Nvidia used the copyrighted books to train its new NeMo platform, created by the chipmaker as a «fast and affordable way to implement generative AI».
Apple will add «hearing aid mode» to AirPods Pro with iOS 18, — Mark Gurman
AirPods already offer several features related to hearing health and accessibility, but in a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (via 9to5mac) says that Apple plans to expand the capabilities of its headphones with a new «hearing aid mode».
Ukraine officially starts negotiations with the US and EU on resumption of passenger air transportation
Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development Oleksandr Kubrakov said that Ukraine has started official consultations with US and EU regulators, as well as the Israeli Civil Aviation Authority, on the resumption of passenger air travel.
The Super Mario Bros. return to the movies — Nintendo and Illumination to release another animated film in 2026
Now the cartoon is under development, however, it is unknown whether it will be a direct sequel to the first — «Super Mario Bros. in the Movies», which debuted last year and earned $1.36 billion worldwide.
Updated: Former Activision Blizzard’s boss Bobby Kotick wants to buy TikTok, — The Wall Street Journal
He has allegedly already presented the idea to potential partners, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Tesla’s value has fallen by $234 billion this year — this is more than McDonald’s, Disney or Nike are worth
Shares of Elon Musk’s automaker have fallen 29% in less than 10 weeks, closing on Wednesday at their lowest level since May.
From the SPH-WP10 to the Galaxy Ring: an infographic of all Samsung wearables released since 1999
To celebrate the Galaxy Ring’s unveiling at MWC in Barcelona last week, Samsung created an infographic with a complete history of her wearable devices.
European Commission «on game» — demands explanations from Apple on blocking Epic Games developer’s account
Apple has to explain to EU regulators how its blocking decision complies with the requirements of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Adam Sandler has beaten Margot Robbie and Tom Cruise. Forbes has compiled the top 10 highest paid actors of 2023
2023-й was marked in the world of cinema as the year of Barbenheimer — «Barbie» and «Oppenheimer» were released in theaters at the same time, and despite the fact that Warner Bros led the box office with $1.4 billion, the work of Universal won the advantage among the nominations for «Oscar». At the same time, the top position in the Forbes…
Following the example of Apple: Google introduces new fees for app developers in the EU
Google has already allowed users to download apps outside the Play Store in accordance with the EU Digital Markets Act, but is now introducing two new commissions for this purpose.
Elon Musk considers abolishing likes and retweets on X/Twitter
A potential update allows authors of X posts to hide the number of their likes and retweets from prying eyes.
Apple banned Epic Games developer account due to «unreliability» — EGS on iOS is still postponed
The other day, Apple released iOS 17.4 by allowing users to download apps and games from third-party app stores — Epic was also preparing its own alternative, but due to the blocking of the developer’s account, the plans are still on hold.
Netflix has renewed the series «Avatar: The Last Airbender» for seasons 2 and 3 at once
The series, which adapts the Nickelodeon hit of the same name, will end with season 3, following the same structure as the animated version.
Dakota Johnson is likely to give up superhero movies after the failure of «Madame Web»
The actress plays a paramedic named Cassandra Webb, who receives the gift of clairvoyance after a traumatic incident and tries to protect three teenage superheroes from a mysterious enemy.
Anthropic «forgot» to mention in the Claude 3 announcement that they compared the model to the «old» GPT-4, not the GPT-4 Turbo
The company, founded by several former OpenAI employees, promoted its language model as «better than ChatGPT», but there is a nuance.
German man received 217 COVID vaccinations in 29 months — this is how it ended
The vaccinations included 8 different vaccine formulations, including updated boosters.
SpaceX has launched three Falcon 9s in less than a day, two of them — in a record-breaking 1 hour and 51 minutes.
In less than a day after the launch of the crew to the ISS, SpaceX delivered 53 commercial satellites (including an innovative spacecraft for tracking methane emissions) and 23 Starlink satellites into orbit.
Spotify will add pricing information and payment options outside the iOS app — if Apple allows it
In this way, the company wants to test whether Apple will violate EU antitrust laws.
OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted to merge it with Tesla for «absolute control»
The ChatGPT developer has rejected the billionaire’s claims outlined in a lawsuit last week. Musk claimed that OpenAI was allegedly focused on making money and forgot about the primary goal — development «of artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity».
Apple releases iOS 17.4 — with permission for alternative marketplaces and third-party NFC payments in the EU
Transcriptions for podcasts and new emojis — among other updates.
Bitcoin has updated its all-time high — the price per coin has reached $69.2 thousand.
On Tuesday, the flagship cryptocurrency jumped in price again due to the high demand for bitcoin ETFs, updating its historical record to $69.2 thousand (in November 2021, the coin was valued at $68.9 thousand).
Musk has activated calls to X by default — now your IP address is visible to everyone. How to turn it off?
In his quest to turn the simple and functional Twitter program into an app for everything called X, Elon Musk launched audio and video calls in social networks as standard — but there is a nuance.
The second season of «House of the Dragon» will be released on HBO in June
Earlier, HBO CEO Casey Bloys announced release of the sequel in early summerand Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav spoke in February about «next quarter».
Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and Rihanna «showed» at the pre-wedding party of the son of Asia’s richest man
According to Forbes, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is the ninth richest person in the world with a net worth of $118 billion. He runs Reliance Industries, a conglomerate that covers a variety of industries, from oil and gas to telecommunications.
The second «Dune» showed the best opening in the history of Warner Bros. in Ukraine since the beginning of the war
Denis Villeneuve’s film debuted in Ukrainian cinemas on February 29 and earned UAH 32.6 million in its first weekend, an absolute record for Warner Bros. films in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
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