Microsoft added more to its latest Windows 11 release candidate than just a Bing AI shortcut button that launches the chatbot in an Edge browser window.
As Tom Warren pointed out, it also includes the tabs in Notepad feature that leaked on Christmas Eve, and for some people, that might be the biggest deal. (Even if you’ve already heard of Notepad++.)
If you missed Tesla’s Investor Day event last night, you can get the highlights of its new “Master Plan” in just four minutes, then read about what Musk did and didn’t announce.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released the Intelligence Community’s assessments after investigating reports by US diplomats in Cuba of suddenly suffering from symptoms that range from hearing loss, vertigo, and nausea to concussions.
Despite rumors of sonic or energy weapons as the cause, the agencies are unconvinced, as ”most IC agencies have concluded that it is “very unlikely” a foreign adversary is responsible for the reported anomalous health incidents.”
The autonomous car unit shares its parent company, Alphabet, with Google, which in January cut over 12,000 jobs or about six percent of its workforce. The Information reports that after a new round of layoffs affecting primarily engineers, Waymo has let go of about 8 percent of the people working there.
Like the other recent tech layoffs, it’s a sharp turn from a few years ago — in 2017, Bloomberg reported some Waymo staffers were quitting because the jobs paid so well.
[The Information]
In November, a fake (but Twitter Blue verified) account said Eli Lilly would make its insulin free, highlighting a situation Cory Zapatka explained in 2019 about the rising prices for something many people need to stay alive.
Now NBC News and the New York Times confirm the drugmaker has actually announced a 70 percent price cut on “its most commonly prescribed insulins,” and an expanded program to cap out-of-pocket patient costs.
And we’re back! With news from YouTube’s new leader Neal Mohan that, of course, includes generative AI, in addition to last night’s big scoop about the next few years of Meta VR and AR hardware.
This evening, however, we’ll be watching Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day event — here’s a preview of what to expect.
While the Nothing Phone 1 is “A good midrange phone underneath a whole lot of hype,” the US-bound sequel is ready for more.
This evening Rivian released its Q4 earnings (PDF), noting that the electric truck builder lost more than $1.7 billion over the three-month period, with $663 million in revenue while delivering 8,054 vehicles.
It also said that later this year, customers will start getting deliveries of the R1S and R1T with the company’s “Max Pack” battery and Enduro motor for long-range capability, though it won’t be available with a quad-motor all-wheel drive setup.
The FTC is casually warning companies to not do that in their advertisements, despite all of the current hype around AI bots and generative technology of all types.
Does the product actually use AI at all?
If you think you can get away with baseless claims that your product is AI-enabled, think again. In an investigation, FTC technologists and others can look under the hood and analyze other materials to see if what’s inside matches up with your claims. Before labeling your product as AI-powered, note also that merely using an AI tool in the development process is not the same as a product having AI in it.
[Federal Trade Commission]
