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Plus fresh details on Meta’s next AI headset, and another smart home company begins its Matter transition.
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It’s funny, Google has been promoting its AI efforts for years, but something about the mainstream attention ChatGPT has been getting, combined with Bing-owner Microsoft’s interest in the technology, seems to have lit a fire underneath the search giant. Google is holding an event about search and AI next week on February 8th. And CEO Sundar Pichai’s recent comments really make it sound sound as though Google will soon let people interact with its AI technology in a way that’s very similar to ChatGPT.
Next up, as we prepare to welcome Sony’s PSVR2 into the world later this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know it hasn’t forgotten about its own Quest headset. During Meta’s earnings call, the CEO said the new headset will support its mixed reality tech when it launches later this year.
Finally Aqara, a smart home company that announced a very interesting presence detection sensor at CES this year, is gearing up to support the new Matter smart home standard. Although this paves the way for its tech to integrate more seamlessly with other smart home devices, there are unfortunately still a lot of caveats.
And now, here’s a silly tweet to start your day:
a]:shadow-highlight-franklin”>Stay tuned, as we continue to update this list with the most important news of today: Friday, February 3rd, 2023.
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Feb 3, 2023, 9:04 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
‘Billionaires don’t get to operate under a different set of rules,’ the lawyer for a class of Tesla investors said in closing arguments of Musk’s securities fraud trial.
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Feb 3, 2023, 6:52 PM UTCAsh Parrish
The developers of both Genshin Impact and Arknights have warned players that if they use Twitter to log in to their accounts, they might lose access.
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Today on the Vergecast — Samsung’s Galaxy S23 and Galaxy Book3 Ultra.
We’re back in video form (audio feeds for your podcast app are here), and this time yes, I admit it — I was occasionally using Nvidia AI to enhance my eye contact with Nilay, Allison, and Monica.
Other than the Galaxy Unpacked news, we also discussed earnings results from Apple and Google as they were announced on Thursday and tried to get a handle on what’s happening to big tech companies.
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Feb 3, 2023, 5:23 PM UTCJames Vincent
The startup, Anthropic, also conducts research into AI language models. The company has built its own general purpose chatbot, a potential rival to ChatGPT named Claude, but has yet to release it publicly.
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Feb 3, 2023, 4:19 PM UTCJess Weatherbed
Nickolas Sharp held Ubiquiti’s data ransom while posing as an anonymous hacker, but an internet outage that disrupted his VPN helped the feds catch on to his scheme.
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