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⋅ August 31, 2024
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The New York Times

How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind?
The New York Times
When I set out to improve my tainted reputation with chatbots, I discovered a new world of A.I. manipulation. … I have a problem: A.I. chatbots don’t like me very much. Ask ChatGPT for some thoughts on my work, and it might accuse me of being dishonest or …
CBS News

Our favorite Labor Day TV deals at Best Buy
CBS News
LG C4 OLED Evo 4K smart TV · LG 55″ Class C4 Series OLED Evo 4K smart TV · TCL 55″ Q6 QLED 4K smart TV · Samsung’s The Frame TV · Hisense 75″ Class U6 Series Mini-LED 4K UHD QLED Google TV · Toshiba 55″ Class C350 Series LED 4K UHD Smart Fire TV …
ZDNet

Anthropic Helps Upgrade Amazon’s Alexa Voice Assistant
Inc.com
Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
GeekWire

Claude meets Alexa: Amazon will reportedly use Anthropic’s AI to help power its voice assistant
GeekWire
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, right, speaks about the company’s partnership with Amazon at the AWS re:Invent conference in November 2023. With him is Adam Selipsky, who has since left his role as AWS CEO. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop).
Yahoo News

Don’t miss this insane Labor Day deal on the iPad 10.2-inch: Just $199, lowest price ever
Yahoo News
Never mind that it’s a previous-generation model. iPads hold their value and this iPad is one of the best tablets you can buy, period — especially at this heavily discounted price. $199 …
GMA

Labor Day 2024: Sales on tech from Best Buy, Walmart and more
GMA
Apple devotees will be pleased to find deals on Beats headphones, AirTags, MacBook Pro, iPads and more from retailers like Amazon and Best Buy. For example, Amazon’s Labor Day sale includes $150 off Apple AirPods Max Wireless Over-Hear Headphones and 39% …
Phys.Org

Physics researchers identify new multiple Majorana zero modes in superconducting SnTe
Science Daily
Summary: A collaborative research team has identified the world’s first multiple Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in a single vortex of the superconducting topological crystalline insulator SnTe and exploited crystal symmetry to control the coupling between the …
ABC7 Los Angeles

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics
Science Daily
Summary: Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today’s plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases — propylene and isobutylene — that are the building blocks of polypropylene …
Axios

Google extends election policies to most of its AI products
Axios
The big picture: The speed of consumer adoption around generative AI has forced tech companies to move quickly to address misinformation concerns, especially around the election. It’s essentially up to the industry to regulate uses …
www.pewresearch.org

What is in your LLM-based framework?
www.nature.com
To maintain high standards in clarity and reproducibility, authors need to clearly mention and describe the use of GPT-4 and other large language models in their work. With the emerging accessibility of pretrained large language models (LLMs), such as, …