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News
AIML
What can LLMs do right now for most companies?
Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence
Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
RAFT: A new way to teach LLMs to be better at RAG
After raising $1.3B, Inflection is eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft
Microsoft hires DeepMind cofounder to head consumer AI
Progress in AI is slowing down not speeding up – and history teaches us why
Charted: The Jobs Most Impacted by AI
OpenAI GPT-4 vs Groq Mistral-8x7b
Painting
Musquetier, 1872, Giovanni Battista Quadrone, (1844 – November 23, 1898), oil on wood 28.5 x 21.5 cm. (11.2 x 8.5 in.), Private Collection
Cyber
How To Hack An Electric Vehicle's Charger And Cause Maximum Chaos
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
Markets
The Era of No-Brainer 5% Returns on Cash Is Ending
AI will shift liability rather than create new risks
Over 300 Years of Central Bank Rates
Electricity is a bull market for the first time in decades
The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone
Discount grocers smell opportunity amid rising prices
Boeing is slowly breaking the airline industry
Too Many Homes Rest on a Slab of Climate Delusion
America’s Magical Thinking About Housing
Fed Hikes Weighing on Coverage Ratios
Misc
25 Years Later, We’re All Trapped in ‘The Matrix’
The $9.5 Million Wine Hangover
The Bored Button (thanks ORH2)
How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
Documentary
9 episodes of excellent