Fri. 04/14 - AWS Enters the Gen AI Race
AWS has begun offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, and AI21 Labs, as they look to be a neutral platform for generative AI features. WhatsApp is rolling out new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks. Twitter has just increased the character limit to 10,000 for Blue subscribers. And your weekend longread suggestions.
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AWS has begun offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, and AI21 Labs, as they look to be a neutral platform for generative AI features. WhatsApp is rolling out new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks. Twitter has just increased the character limit to 10,000 for Blue subscribers. And your weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Amazon Joins Microsoft, Google in AI Race Spurred by ChatGPT (Wall Street Journal)
- Amazon Is Joining the Generative AI Race (WIRED)
- WhatsApp makes it harder for scammers to steal your account (Engadget)
- Key transparency explainer (Matthew Green, Twitter)
- Twitter Blue’s new 10,000 character limit turns tweets into essays (The Verge)
- Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul. (The Ringer)
- With a wave of new LLMs, open-source AI is having a moment — and a red-hot debate (VentureBeat)
- Is ‘The Economist’ Making the Best News Podcasts Right Now? (Vulture)
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