Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo

May 17, 2024

After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased attention also brought the threat of legal action, as Adobe targeted Delta for sporting a logo that looked too […]

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GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites

May 17, 2024
Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, its newest version of the large-language model chatbot, some Chinese-language speakers started to notice something seemed off: the tokens it uses to parse text were full of spam and porn phrases. On May 14, Tianle Cai, a Ph.D student at Princeton University studying inference efficiency in…

Meta’s latest experiment copies BeReal and Snapchat’s core ideas

May 17, 2024

Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature that borrows concepts from others — in this case, BeReal and Snapchat. The company is developing a feature for Instagram called “Peek” that would allow users to post authentic pictures that can only be viewed once. While Snapchat popularized the idea of ephemeral […]

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Indiebio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises

May 17, 2024

IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups; here are a few we took special notice of, making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in a big way. Biotech has been creeping out in recent years to touch adjacent industries, as companies find how much […]

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