links

A collection of interesting links that made me go, WTF?
Oct
26

Link: Brain-computer interface company Science Corporation says its retinal implant, which has a 2mm chip, let some blind people read, play cards, and recognize faces (Emily Mullin/Wired)

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Oct
25

Link: As Kroger and Walmart roll out electronic shelf labels, US lawmakers worry that the tech could allow for dynamic pricing; both deny plans to add dynamic pricing (Sara Ruberg/New York Times)

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Oct
25

Link: Meta debuts "quantized" versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Oct
23

Link: Google open sources SynthID Text, which lets developers watermark and detect text generated by AI models, available under the Apache 2.0 license (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Oct
22

Link: Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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