TechCrunch: Hands-on with Google Play Protect’s real-time scanning for sideloaded Android apps, which didn’t stop five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing  —  Here’s our hands-on review of the new Android security feature  —  Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Young / AIModels.fyi: Researchers say AI models like GPT-4 respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context because of how these models handle nuanced prompts  —  Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context  —  In the grand narrative … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at the gap between Amazon’s dazzling drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects can be delivered when the weather allows  —  Amazon’s much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways.  Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

xAI: Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok, an AI model that the startup says surpasses rivals in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users  —  Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: A look at companies’ responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, to potential US Copyright Office rules for AI and copyrighted content  —  The biggest companies in AI aren’t interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, deepfake detection issues, and more  —  Instead of detecting fakes, this effort aims to authenticate and track online images from the start; Adobe’s chief trust officer on the strategy Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Byju’s files much-delayed financial results: a $270.9M operating loss and $429.18M revenue for its FY ending March 2022, missing its $1.25B revenue projection  —  Indian edtech giant Byju’s said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How chip companies are experimenting with obscure materials, like synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips  —  To beat the heat that our devices throw off, engineers are experimenting with synthetic diamonds, ultrapure glass and other obscure materials Lees verder op Tech Meme