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⋅ May 16, 2024
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Car and Driver

View Photos of the Morgan Midsummer
Car and Driver
The Morgan Midsummer is a roofless barchetta that will be built in very limited numbers for a very special clientele with nostalgia and a spirit of adventure. The car is powered by a BMW inline-six engine mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission.
TechTarget

GPT-4o explained: Everything you need to know
TechTarget
OpenAI is one of the defining vendors of the generative AI era. The foundation of OpenAI’s success and popularity is the company’s GPT family of large language models (LLM), including GPT-3 and GPT-4, alongside the company’s ChatGPT conversational AI …
Fast Company

Mozilla Foundation taps Nabiha Syed as executive director.
The Verge
Syed, the former CEO of the publication The Markup, will lead the foundation’s $30 million portfolio of programs beginning July 1. She will focus on partnering with organizations “to shift the narrative on AI,” create and fund open source datasets, …
Fast Company

New Mozilla director Nabiha Syed wants to bring ‘joy and creativity’ back to the internet (exclusive)
Fast Company
Nabiha Syed, who was previously CEO of investigative tech news nonprofit The Markup, is joining the Mozilla Foundation as executive director, she tells Fast Company in an exclusive interview. Syed will be stepping into an organization that looks to …
Fast Company

Neuralink knew their brain implant wires had issues for years. Trials continued anyway
Fast Company
The company knew from animal testing it had conducted ahead of its U.S. approval last year that the wires might retract, removing with them the sensitive electrodes that decode brain signals, three of the sources said. Neuralink deemed the risk low enough …
CNBC

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Amazon-backed Anthropic
CNBC
Anthropic has major backers, including Google, Salesforce and Amazon, and its chatbot directly competes with ChatGPT in both the enterprise and consumer worlds.
BBC News

Facebook and Instagram suspected to be ‘too addictive’
BBC News
The European Union is investigating Facebook and Instagram over whether they are so addictive that they are having “negative effects” on the “physical and mental health” of children. It will also scrutinise if have done enough to check whether users …
Evening Standard

Indika console release date: A Russian orthodox nun talks to the devil in acclaimed indie game
Evening Standard
Indika’s developers have likened it to the comedic and tragic works of renowned Russian authors Dostoyevsky and Bulhakov. Indika came out on PC to glowing reviews on May 2. Indika. Saqib Shah45 minutes ago. Indika, one of the most original games to …
CNN

The 10 best Amazon deals to shop this week: Hatch, Bissell and Beats
CNN
CNN Underscored editors found the best sales on Amazon right now, including deals on the Hatch Restore 1, a budget-friendly Bissell robot mop and Underscored-approved Beats Solo 4 headphones. Editor Favorite …
Gamasutra

Ubisoft shares slump after guidance disappoints
Morningstar.com
For the new fiscal year, Ubisoft expects solid net bookings growth and a slight increase in non-IFRS operating profit. UBS analysts pointed out in a research note that the operating profit guidance is somewhat below Visible Alpha consensus of 18% growth.