Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)
I hate to go as cliche as "surprising absolutely no one," but really, this is not a surprise.
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Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (arstechnica.com)
Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
The truly shocking thing to me is that any voters believe the ISP's arguments and are ... I guess fine with a portion of their monthly bills being earmarked for litigation to make their consumer experience ever worse....
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet (arstechnica.com)
Ars provides this asterisk:...
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out (arstechnica.com)
As a general rule, when trillion-dollar companies don't like regulation, it simply means they're admitting the rules are good for their customers.
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show (www.extremetech.com)
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public (arstechnica.com)
This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)
The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future (www.rollingstone.com)
From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)
With a fair amount of system integration (no wake word available) missing, of course. Which rather sounds like a feature.
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Aww ... poor little ISPs.
