Pranav Dixit
Pranav is a senior editor at Engadget responsible for handling news coverage during west coast hours. He previously spent more than five years in New Delhi as the India-based tech correspondent for BuzzFeed News, writing about the impact of Silicon Valley tech companies on the culture, society, democracy, and politics of more than a billion people in the region. In 2019, he won a Mirror Award a feature about how misinformation that spread through WhatsApp destroyed an Indian village, and was a 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Send him a tip on Signal at +1 408-905-9124 or pranavdixit@protonmail.com
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OpenAI will train its AI models on the Financial Times' journalism
Generative AI is only as good as the training data used to train the models that power it, so AI companies have increasingly been striking deals with news publishers.
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Apple has reportedly resumed talks with OpenAI to build a chatbot for the iPhone
Apple has resumed talks with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, to build an AI-powered chatbot into the iPhone, according to a new report.
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The world's leading AI companies pledge to protect the safety of children online
Leading artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta and others have jointly pledged to prevent their AI tools from being used to exploit children and generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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Adobe Photoshop's latest beta makes AI-generated images from simple text prompts
Adobe will now let you use AI to generate images directly within Photoshop. That's just the beginning.
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Mozilla urges WhatsApp to combat misinformation ahead of global elections
Social media companies like Meta, YouTube and TikTok, have promised to protect the integrity of those elections, at least as far as discourse and factual claims being made on their platforms are concerned. Missing from the conversation, however, is closed messaging app WhatsApp, which now rivals public social media platforms in both scope and reach.
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Netflix is done telling us how many people use Netflix
Although subscriber metrics are an important signal to Wall Street that show how quickly a company is growing, Netflix isn't the first company to do this.
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Meta is stuffing its AI chatbot into your Instagram DMs
Meta's chatbot in Instagram isn't doing anything Instagram-specific, however. It's the same bot available in all other Meta apps.
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Google's new AI video generator is more HR than Hollywood
Google Vids is not a replacement for AI-powered video generation tools like OpenAI's Sora. Instead, it uses stock footage and personal documents and media to spit out videos that office workers would be proud of.
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How WhatsApp became the world’s default communication app
Fifteen years after it was created, the messaging app runs the world.
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NVIDIA's GPUs powered the AI revolution. Its new Blackwell chips are up to 30 times faster
In a sign of just how dependent our modern AI revolution is on NVIDIA’s chips, the company’s press release describing its new Blackwell family of AI chips includes testimonials from seven CEOs who collectively lead companies worth trillions of dollars.
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TikTok's CEO urges users to 'protect your constitutional rights' as US ban looms
Should the bill pass into law, it would force TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, a Chinese corporation, to sell TikTok to a US company within six months, or be banned from US app stores and web hosting services.
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Elon Musk kills Don Lemon's new X show before it ever began
Lemon said that X canceled his contract hours after he interviewed the platform's billionaire owner Elon Musk for the first episode of “The Don Lemon Show,” which was scheduled to stream from this Monday.
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Sam Altman is back on the OpenAI board. We still don’t know why he was fired.
In addition to Altman, OpenAI's new board now consists of three new members including a former Meta executive.
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Facebook is using AI to supercharge the algorithm that recommends you videos
Facebook tested the new system with Reels and noticed that watch times went up significantly. So it will roll it out to the main Facebook feed and Groups as well.
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A former Google engineer was arrested for allegedly stealing AI secrets for Chinese rivals
In an indictment that was unsealed in a federal California court, prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national who started working at Google in 2019, of uploading trade secrets from his Google-issued laptop to personal cloud storage accounts.
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EA is laying off over 650 employees
EA’s cuts are the latest in a long line of layoffs that have rocked the video game industry since last year.
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The Apple Car project is reportedly dead
A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple has officially canceled the project, breaking the news to nearly 2,000 employees who had been working on it on Tuesday.
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Stable Diffusion 3 is a new AI image generator that won't mess up text in pictures, its makers claim
Stability AI claimed that the new model, which isn’t widely available yet, improves image quality, works better with prompts containing multiple subjects, and can more accurate text as part of the generated image, something that previous Stable Diffusion models weren’t great at.
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Rivian is laying off 10 percent of its salaried employees
The Amazon-backed company reported that it lost $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 and said that it expects to build 57,000 electric vehicles in 2024, the same number it built last year.
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Don't use smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar without needles, the FDA warns
“The FDA has not authorized, cleared, or approved any smartwatch or smart ring that is intended to measure or estimate blood glucose values on its own,” the agency wrote in a safety communication, and asked consumers, patients, and caregivers to stay away from such devices.