Bluesky sends some users personalized apologies after racism controversy
Bluesky, which has been embattled with moderation issues since its launch earlier this year, appeared to apologize for failing to protect Black users and other marginalized groups on the platform. In emails responding to users who sent feedback regarding the platform’s failure to moderate racist content, Bluesky’s customer support outlined
Read moreReturn JSON from GPT
Return JSON From GPTGet properly formatted JSON in your responsePhoto by Pawel Czerwinski on UnsplashOpenAI recently announced updates to their API that now make it possible to get properly formatted JSON in your response.You can do a little “prompt engineering” and get stringified JSON by simply appending “provide your response in JSON format”
Read moreCreating a Zero-Allocation Environment in Go
Photo by Adi Goldstein on UnsplashAllocating dynamic memory is the thing everyone tries to avoid because it leads to performance degradation. Sometimes you can reorganize your logic to remove all the heap escapes from your code, but there are cases when it’s impossible to achieve such optimization. If that happens, you
Read moreNamed entity recognition
Named entity recognition (NER) is a task of natural language processing: pull out named things text. It sounds like trivial at first. Just create a giant list of named things and compare against that. But suppose, for example, University of Texas is on your list. If Texas is also on
Read moreWhatsApp now lets you record and share short video messages directly in chats
WhatsApp announced today that users can now record and share short personal videos directly in chats. The messaging app notes that voice messages changed the way people communicate by proving a quick and secure way to share their voice, which is why it’s now building on the functionality with instant
Read moreSaving Money with AI
Imagine having a personal safety net, always ready to catch you if life throws you a curveball. That’s what saving money can do for you. It’s like having a superpower that provides you with a sense of calm, knowing you’re covered if life decides to go off script. With savings
Read moreSun Exchange Solar Project to Propagate Sustainable Energy Education in SA
Sun Exchange, the global solar leasing platform, and independent power producer, CVE South Africa today announced that the French renewable energy leader has funded a large solar-plus-battery project that will provide clean power and load shedding relief to one of the oldest and largest technical high schools in South Africa.
Read moreShutdown of Meta’s East African Content Moderation Hub
Meta’s east Africa content moderation hub is shutting down, according to a report by Financial Times. The social media’s third-party Sama, that was contracted by owner of Facebook in 2017 to label data and train its artificial intelligence is now laying off around 200 out of their 1,500 employee base.
Read morePhotoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images
Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that “expands images beyond their original bounds,” as the company describes it. Aptly called Generative Expand, the capability, available in the beta version of Photoshop, lets users expand and resize images by clicking and
Read morea16z-backed Eco unveils Beam, a P2P crypto transfer service aiming to be a ‘global Venmo’
The crypto payments space is seeing a surge of activity these days as developers strive to make decentralized finance as user-friendly as web2 experiences. Eco Inc, an a16z-backed payments startup that’s raised $95 million in funding to date, just unveiled a decentralized payments project called Beam. In an interview with
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