Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

The move follows a visit that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, made last month to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

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Anthropic’s 3.5 Haiku model comes to Claude users

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Anthropic has released one its newest AI models, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for users of its AI chatbot platform, Claude. Reports of 3.5 Haiku’s launch in Claude began rolling in Thursday morning on social media, and TechCrunch was able to independently confirm that the model is available in Claude on the web and mobile. Claude Haiku […]
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Mark Zuckerberg sweetens Meta’s $1M donation to Trump’s inaugural fund with a pair of smart glasses

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pulling off a lobbying-public relations combo move by gifting President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund $1 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The money came from Meta, to be clear, but Zuckerberg sweetened the gift further — while doing great marketing — by sending Trump a pair of Meta’s smart […]
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Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.

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Venture capitalists bet on Sublime, a startup bringing AI to email security

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Generative artificial intelligence has helped hackers craft personalized emails more quickly. Now startups are using the technology to block attacks.

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Controversial chatbot’s safety measures ‘a sticking plaster’

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Character.ai is facing legal action in the US over claims a bot on the site encouraged a teenager to kill his parents.

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How to Fix Network Jitter (for Good) in Under 10 Minutes

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Don’t let network jitter ruin another call. Learn fast and effective ways to get a high jitter rate down to a manageable level.

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DOJ asks court to reject TikTok’s bid to temporarily block sell-or-ban law

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

The Department of Justice has asked a U.S. appeals court to reject ByteDance and TikTok’s emergency motion that aims to temporarily block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership by January 19.  The Justice Department said the court should not delay the matter, arguing that […]
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Realize Music’s ‘Sing’ wants you to sing out loud by yourself in VR because it just feels good

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Aimed at maintaining well-being, Sing is a VR app that you can sing out loud with when you’re home alone.
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Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

This week on Uncanny Valley, we debate which social media apps are still worth the scroll.

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