Character.AI received a cease-and-desist letter from Disney, urging the chatbot company to remove Disney characters from among the millions of AI companions on its plaftorm, Variety reports. Character.AI allows users to generate AI chatbots that can range from real people like Elon Musk to fictional characters like Hermione Granger, plus users’ own original creations. These chatbots can be quite unfiltered — in one particularly horrific case, a family sued Character.AI after a chatbot inspired by a Game of Thrones character allegedly encouraged their teenage son to commit suicide. “Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney’s famous marks and brands,…
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Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product—a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models.“We believe [Tinker] will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models, and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to all people,” says Mira Murati, cofounder and CEO of Thinking Machines, in an interview with WIRED ahead of the announcement.Big companies and academic labs already fine-tune open source AI models to create new variants that are optimized for specific tasks, like solving math problems, drafting legal agreements, or answering…
Microsoft has revealed another nuance with how the extra year of free updates for Windows 10 will workIt will require you to be signed into a Microsoft account on an ongoing basisThis is to avoid somebody signing up for extended updates with a Microsoft account, then switching to a local one for the rest of the yearWe’ve had another development in the twist-and-turn-filled saga of extended support for Windows 10, and a further revelation about how the offer of an extra year of free security updates will work that might come as bad news for some.Even the no-strings-attached offer that…
Periodic Labs came out of stealth on Tuesday with a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industry’s who’s who: Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Nvidia, Accel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos. Period Labs was founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus. Cubuk led the materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, where one of his projects was, for instance, an AI tool called GNoME. That tool discovered over 2 million new crystals in 2023materials that could one day be used to power new generations of technology, researchers say.…
As a Yakuza fan, I’ve recommended the series from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, otherwise known as RGG, to plenty of people, but it has long come with one big caveat: Yakuza 3. It’s not that there is anything necessarily wrong with it, but with high-quality remakes of the first games in the series, and the more modern and refined graphics and gameplay of the newer entries, it has stood out a bit as a bit of an odd duck, looking and playing worse than the games before and after. However, with the just-announced Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Tiesa twin…
What you need to knowTile trackers have been found to broadcast unencrypted IDs and a static Bluetooth MAC address, making them easy to spot and follow.Apple’s AirTag and Samsung’s SmartTag rotate identifiers and encrypt transmissions, while Tile’s protections are partial and inconsistent.While Tile’s Anti-Theft Mode hides trackers from scans, it also removes safety checks, allowing abusers to plant devices undetected.Tile trackers are making headlines again, though not in a positive way. Wired reports that researchers at Georgia Tech have found major problems with how these Bluetooth trackers manage data, putting users at risk of being tracked or having their information…
Pixel QPR Beta issue breaks key native, default Android app PhoneArena
Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, September 30 (game #576).Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today…
Compare Our Top PicksMore Sound Machines We LikePhotograph: Julia ForbesYogasleep Rohm+ Travel White Noise Machine for $50: This is a more refined, adult sound machine option that looks significantly more chic than your standard sound machine (if that matters to you, that is). The timer and white noise options are solid, but for the price and audio quality, Momcozy’s portable option runs circles around the Rohm+.Baby Brezza Sleep and Soother for $25: This is super light, can run on batteries or be plugged in, and has 18 sleep sounds and three timer options (or it plays continuously). There’s also a…