💡 Yahoo's AI acquisition

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April 03, 2024

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Hey Edge Family, good morning! Yahoo is joining the AI mix today with their latest purchase.

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Latest Developments
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Real Life Use Cases
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🚨 Latest Developments

Yahoo’s AI acquisition

Source: Yahoo

Big Takeaway: Yahoo acquired AI news startup Artifact's technology from co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, marking their first AI acquisition.

Instagram co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom introduced Artifact in January 2023, using AI to curate content that was specific to each user's news-reading preferences. Artifact ceased operations in January 2024.
Yahoo's acquisition of Artifact follows discussions with several potential buyers after Artifact announced its closure. Yahoo emerged as the chosen acquirer.
Yahoo intends to integrate Artifact's recommendation engine into Yahoo News, which has a monthly readership of 185 million, to enhance content personalization.

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Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot

Source: Reddit

Big Takeaway: Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot designed to automate support tasks, showcasing an "embodied AI character" that animates in response to Xbox support inquiries.

The chatbot is linked to Microsoft’s Xbox network and ecosystem support documents, capable of answering questions and processing game refunds through the Microsoft support website.
Microsoft has recently expanded the testing pool for this "Xbox Support Virtual Agent," indicating potential plans to deploy it widely to assist all Xbox customers with support queries.
Internally, Microsoft is also exploring AI for game testing, AI NPCs in partnership with Inworld, and AI Copilots for safety, moderation, and content moderation tasks on the Xbox platform.

🔎 Extra Insights

Apple is calling this Vision Pro upgrade “Spatial Persona”

Apple has launched "spatial Persona" capabilities for its Vision Pro headset, allowing users to collaborate, play games, or watch media together in shared virtual spaces using SharePlay-enabled apps. This new feature lets up to five Vision Pro users interact with hovering personas in the same room.

Amazon offers free credits for startups to use AI models

Amazon Web Services has expanded its free credits program for startups to cover the costs of using major AI models from providers like Anthropic and Meta AI platform Bedrock. The move aims to attract startup customers and boost Bedrock's market share, following AWS's $4 billion investment in Anthropic.

Anthropic finds LLM loophole

Anthropic researchers have discovered a new "many-shot jailbreaking" technique that can convince large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to provide harmful information, such as instructions for building a bomb, if primed with dozens of incrementally riskier queries first. This exploit takes advantage of LLMs' increased context window capabilities that allow them to learn better from many examples within a prompt.

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💻 Real Life Use Cases

Chat GPT Prompt: Social media for job searching

Use ChatGPT to get a list of the ins and outs of using social media to conduct job searches.

Copy and paste the prompt below:

Social media can be a powerful tool in the job search process for [industry]. How can I leverage platforms like Twitter, Instagram, or specialized forums to discover job opportunities, connect with industry professionals, and share content related to [topic]? Include dos and don'ts of professional social media use.

Here’s a link to the results:

Social media for job searching

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

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💼 Who’s Hiring in AI

Job Title	Company	Salary Range	Location
Sr Data Scientist	NextEra Energy	$125k-$194k	On-site
Director of Robotics	Apptronik	$81k-$152k	On-site
Admin Business Partner	OpenAI	N/A	On-site

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