Mark Zuckerberg snubs his Llama in favour of OpenAI’s GPT-4
Open relationship
While Mark Zuckerberg has been telling world+dog that Meta’s Llama AI model is the bee’s knees he has been using OpenAI’s GPT-4 model behind the scenes.
US consumers set Cyber Monday spending record
Pre-tariff rush
US consumers splurged $15.8 million every 60 seconds in two hours on Monday night, capping off a five-day spending spree that smashed previous records.
The music sector will lose a quarter of its income
AI will take all their cash in just four years
According to the first global economic study examining the impact of emerging technology on human creativity, people working in the music sector will lose almost a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence within the next four years.
Amazon stopped giving Prime service to black customers
Even if they paid for it
The District of Columbia sued Amazon, claiming that the brown box shifter had secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighbourhoods while still charging for a membership that promised the benefit.
Marvell beats estimates
AI Marvell
Marvell Technology has forecasted its fourth-quarter revenue to be above estimates, driven by strong demand for its custom artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
Intel investors worry about Kicking Pat’s exit
Share prices fall six per cent
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are worried about Intel’s future after the surprise “retirement” of Pat [Kicking] Gelsinger this week.
US chips are unsafe, claims China
Gloves off in renewed tech tensions
China’s top industry associations have banded together to declare US semiconductor products “no longer safe.”
Coppers shut down encrypted messaging service
Used by international drugs and arms dealers
An encrypted messaging service, which was international drug and arms trafficking dealers' tool of choice, has been taken down by Inspector Knacker of Europol.
Amazon's Data Centres to become carbon capture machines
Offsetting the CO2
Amazon’s data centres could soon double as carbon capture machines, significantly mitigating the harmful effects of the colossal energy required to operate them.
Robots replace ten per cent of Korean workers
Tackling shrinking population
South Korea is the first country to have replaced 10 percent of its workforce with robots, addressing its shrinking population due to its low birth rate.