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Archives for November 2023

Microsoft is finally making custom chips — and they’re all about AI

The Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 chips are the first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud infrastructure.

Tom Warren
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Adi Robertson
Jon Porter
Jon Porter
OpenAI pumps the brakes on ChatGPT Plus signups.

A little over a week after announcing a bunch of new features at its debut developer conference, OpenAI is pausing signups for ChatGPT Plus. The subscription offers access to features like OpenAI’s new custom GPTs, which let anyone create their own versions of ChatGPT.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Airbnb just bought its very own AI company, led by a Siri co-founder.

CNBC reports Airbnb bought the “stealth mode” Gameplanner.AI for almost $200 million, and notes its plans to use generative AI for trip planning help.

The article says Gameplanner.AI was founded in 2020 by former Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer, whose later work included co-founding Viv Labs, which Samsung bought to make Bixby.

Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?

Applying the advancing tech to how we grow and cultivate our food has some big upsides — but is it worth the cost?

Abigail Bassett
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Humane will be updating its AI Pin reveal video to address a big error.

In the video, Humane’s AI Pin confidently lied about the best places to watch April’s upcoming total solar eclipse, but Humane staffer (and Verge alum) Sam Sheffer said in Humane’s Discord that this was a bug that’s since been resolved. Sheffer says Humane will be updating the video on its website, but as of this writing, the wrong eclipse information is still in it.

The device also misstated the amount of protein in a handful of almonds. Sheffer says the pin was spelling out the amount of protein for a half cup of almonds, which was the “correct and current” behavior. However, he says the behavior will “improve over time.” The video on Humane’s website has a footnote that says “protein amount estimated” — I’m not sure if this was there originally.

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Kara Verlaney
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Humane is hiring if you’re an Android developer looking for a job.

Humane didn’t explicitly say what underpins the Ai Pin’s “Cosmos” operating system when it announced it this week. A Threads user spotted this nugget in a job posting on the company’s website, which has a pretty strong hint:

Work alongside our System Software team to tightly integrate and customize our usage of Android OS (AOSP)