OpenAI’s ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users
ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Monday at the company’s first developer conference in San Francisco. The service released nearly a year ago and garnered an estimated 100 million monthly users within just two months of launching and set a record for
Read moreCoperniq raises $4M seed round to bring SaaS to solar installers
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Read moreApp Store for AI: OpenAI’s GPT Store lets you build (and monetize) your own GPT
OpenAI took the leash (and the “Chat”) off ChatGPT today with the announcement of GPTs, a way for anyone to build their own version of the popular conversational AI system. Not only can you make your own GPT for fun or productivity, but you’ll soon be able to publish it
Read moreWhat to know about Fortnite maker Epic Games’ antitrust battle with Google, starting today
Match may have settled its antitrust lawsuit with Google last week, but Fortnite maker Epic Games is still set to go to trial with the tech giant today, November 6, in hopes of convincing a jury that Google engages in anticompetitive behavior with regard to its Android app store, Google
Read moreGenerative AI shouldn’t reduce your startup’s marketing headcount
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Read moreDecentralized communication protocol Matrix shifts to less-permissive AGPL open source license
Element, the company and core developer behind the decentralized communication protocol known as Matrix, has announced a notable license change that will make the open source project just that little bit less appealing for companies looking to build on top of it. The London-based company revealed that the core Matrix
Read moreThe best jigsaw puzzles to gift in 2023
Today’s jigsaw puzzles don’t always look like yesteryears’, and that’s for the best: Not all of us care for scenery, birds and flowers as much as we like Disney and Pixar, for instance. Let’s not be snobs, classic puzzles can be very enjoyable, too. But there’s a whole world that
Read moreBumble announces Slack CEO Lidiane Jones will be its new chief exec
In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble announced a doozy: It’s replacing founder CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd with Slack CEO Lidiane Jones. Jones only started as CEO at Slack last year, replacing another founder CEO, Stewart Butterfield.
Read moreRansomware gang continues to publish data stolen from Ontario hospitals
The Daxin Team ransomware group has released its third tranche of data stolen from southwestern Ontario hospitals that share an IT services provider because it can’t get a penny from the institutions. According to Canadian-based Emsisoft threat researcher Brett Callow, this third installment of data was released Sunday. The gang
Read moreEarth mover’s distance
There are many ways to describe the distance between two probability distributions. The previous two posts looked at using the p-norm to measure the difference between the PDFs and using Kullbach-Leibler divergence. Earth mover’s distance (EMD) is yet another approach. Imagine a probability distribution on ℝ² as a pile of
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