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“Revolutionary Innovations: Disney’s Virtual Reality Treadmill, OpenAI’s Resolution for ‘Lazy’ GPT-4, and Apple’s Stolen Device Safeguard”

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On the agenda for this edition is Disney’s innovative VR treadmill, OpenAI fixing its “lazy” AI and MIT’s high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech. We also cover Apple’s new stolen device protection feature, AI startup Rabbit’s nifty hardware and app makers debating launching apps tailor-made for Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Apple’s new device protection: Romain writes about Apple’s new stolen device protection feature, which, when turned on, requires Face ID or Touch ID biometric authentication for some actions, like accessing stored passwords and credit cards. Vision Pro apps a maybe: After Netflix said it wouldn’t release a dedicated app for the Apple Vision Pro, other app makers, including YouTube, are following in its footsteps. Bonus roundLamborghini licenses MIT battery tech: Writing for TechCrunch+, Tim reports that Lamborghini has licensed new battery tech from MIT that could overcome the limitations of the lithium-ion batteries in wide use today.

“OpenAI Reduces Prices and Repairs ‘Uncooperative’ GPT-4 Model”

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OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. It’s also a popular API, being lower cost and faster than GPT-4 on a lot of tasks. Hence the steady ratcheting down of prices — though it’s also a natural result of streamlining the models and improving their infrastructure. GPT-3.5 Turbo also gets a new model version, 0125 (i.e. And the company also released a new version of its free moderation API — which identifies potentially harmful text.