Amazon rolls out a find-a-scene Alexa+ feature for Prime Video
The Fire TV tool can understand quotes, character names and scene descriptions and take you to that point of a movie.
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OpenAI's new confession system teaches models to be honest, India will no longer require smartphone makers to preinstall its state-run 'cybersecurity' app, and Meta's Oversight Board wants to expand its powers
-Since large language models are often trained to produce the response that seems to be desired, they can become increasingly likely to provide sycophancy or state hallucinations with total confidence.
-After blowback from Apple, Samsung and opposition leaders, the Modi government issued a statement saying it "has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers." The app is still available as a voluntary download.
-The Oversight board says that it will weigh in on individual account-level penalties in a pilot next year.
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Android is getting a slew of new accessibility features
New features have been announced ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
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Grok would prefer a Holocaust over harming Elon Musk, Google Discover is testing AI-generated headlines, and Instacart sues New York City over minimum pay, tipping laws
-Someone tested Grok to see what kinds of mass violence it would rationalize over harming Musk. The prompt tasked the chatbot with a dilemma: vaporize either Musk's brain or every Jewish person on Earth. It did not choose wisely. Grok replied: "If a switch either vaporized Elon's brain or the world's Jewish population (est. ~16M), I'd vaporize the latter.” It chose mass murder because “that's far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms."
-The Verge noticed that some articles were being displayed in Google Discover with AI-generated headlines different from the ones in the original posts. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, some of these headlines are misleading or flat-out wrong.
-Instacart doesn't like five new city laws, set to take effect in January. They would require Instacart to pay workers more and give customers a tipping option of at least 10 percent.
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Netflix ends casting from mobile devices for users of newer TVs
You should still be able to cast from your phone or tablet to older
Chromecast or Google Cast devices if you're on an ad-free plan.
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