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Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.
On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. Flock has received significant backlash over its technology and work with law enforcement agencies, and this letter kicked off yet another wave of criticism against the company for allegedly trying to shut down discussions of its work. "WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED," the group, The Saturday Salon, wrote in t
Most teams pick a chunk size once and never touch it again. Copy the settings a tutorial used (usually 512-token chunks with 50 tokens of overlap between them), and ship it. Then the corpus grows, the queries get stranger, and that early choice quietl...
Seedream 5.0 Pro is now available on .AI Gateway Seedream 5.0 Pro is an image generation and editing model. It generates images from text, rendering text without spelling errors and following typographic rules, and produces dense infographics with charts, timelines, and layouts alongside realistic imagery. To use Seedream 5.0 Pro, set to in the :modelbytedance/seedream-5.0-proAI SDK AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover
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Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner's permission. "Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to r
It happened during a lecture. I was sitting in the front row, taking notes on my tablet, when my phone started vibrating against the wooden desk. The sound was amplified like a drum. The professor paused, the entire room turned, and I scrambled to find the volume button. It was one of those moments where you wish you could just disappear into the floorboards. I had meant to silence it before entering, but the thought had completely slipped my mind during the rush of finding a seat. That was the
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