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If you want to succeed in AI, a good hack would be to impersonate Google. You just can’t get caught.This is what just happened to Perplexity, a startup that competes with ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and other generative AI services.Quality data is crucial for success in AI, but tech companies don’t want to pay for this, so they crawl the web and scrape information for free, often without permission. This has sparked a backlash by some content creators and others interested in preserving the incentives that built the web.Cloudflare and its CEO, Matthew Prince, have stormed into this battle with new…
Nations gather in Geneva Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.It’s the sixth time negotiators are meeting and they hope the last. A key split is whether the treaty should require cutting plastic production, with powerful oil-producing nations opposed; most plastic is made from fossil fuels. They say redesign, recycling and reuse can solve the problem, while other countries and some major companies say that’s not enough.Only a treaty can mobilize the necessary global action, said Angelique Pouponneau, lead ocean negotiator for 39…
As more people aged 45-49 are getting screened for colon cancer, more early stage diagnoses are being made, according to new research from the American Cancer Society.The research, published in two studies Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed increases in screenings among those younger than 50 is linked to rises in earlier diagnosis. One study showed an annual increase of 1.1% from 2004 to 2019 jumped to 12% from 2019 to 2022 for colorectal cancer incidence among people aged 45 to 49, while another study showed screenings among U.S. adults aged 45 to 49 increase 62% from…
On Monday’s earnings call, Palantir executives took shots at elite education while expressing optimism about “blue collar” workers who use the company’s software products.”If you did not go to school, or you went to a school that’s not that great, or you went to Harvard or Princeton or Yale, once you come to Palantir, you’re a Palantirian, no one cares about the other stuff,” CEO Alex Karp said. “We are making a new credential independent of class and background at Palantir.”Such rhetoric seems increasingly par for the course for Karp as well as Silicon Valley founders and investors who have…
Coca-Cola will be adding cane sugar to its ingredients list after all.“We’re going to be bringing a Coke sweetened with US cane sugar into the market this fall, and I think that will be an enduring option for consumers,” Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said on a second-quarter call with investors and analysts on July 22.The company initially declined to comment on its intentions to use cane sugar after President Donald Trump claimed it would do so in July.“I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,”…
The Florida Department of Health is warning about the risks of drinking raw, unpasteurized milk after 21 people, including six children under the age of 10, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk from the same farm. Seven people have been hospitalized, and two have developed severe complications.”Sanitation practices in this farm are of particular concern due to the number of cases,” the department said in a news release. Officials did not identify the farm, but indicated its products were available in Northeast and Central Florida. CBS News has reached out to the health department…
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to stop enabling its users’ unhealthy behaviors.Starting Monday, the popular chatbot app will prompt users to take breaks from lengthy conversations. The tool will also soon shy away from giving direct advice about personal challenges, instead aiming to help users decide for themselves by asking questions or weighing pros and cons.“There have been instances where our 4o model fell short in recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency,” OpenAI wrote in an announcement. “While rare, we’re continuing to improve our models and are developing tools to better detect signs of mental or emotional distress so ChatGPT can…
To tease its new phone, Google dunked on Apple — and soundtracked it to Snoop Dogg.In a new advertisement for the coming Pixel 10 smartphone, Google took a shot at Apple’s delayed launch of its AI features. Apple announced an overhauled, “more personalized” Siri powered by Apple Intelligence at the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2024, but has yet to roll the feature out.”If you buy a new phone because of a feature that’s ‘coming soon,’ but it’s been ‘coming soon’ for a full year, you could change your definition of ‘soon’ — or you could just change your phone,” the ad’s…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers activated Max Muncy from the injured list and put fellow infielder Tommy Edman on the list Monday.Muncy has been out since July 2, missing nearly five weeks with a bone bruise in his knee after a collision on a tag play during a game against the Chicago White Sox. The veteran slugger had been on a monthlong roll at the time of his injury, boosting his OPS to .832 with 13 homers and 55 RBIs.Muncy returned more quickly than the initial six-week projection for his recovery. He was batting fifth and playing…
Apple’s mission to put a camera in everyone’s hand may have backfired.The Apple community is buzzing about a photo posted on social media recently that purportedly shows an unreleased iPhone 17 being tested in the wild.In the photos, shared by X user @Skyfops, a person wearing sunglasses and a hat holds up two phones while walking down the street. One of them clearly looks like an iPhone with its Apple logo covered by a piece of black tape — the other device looks a bit different.The second device, which appears to be in a case, has a camera lens placement…