Archive: July 2016

Pinterest will lay off 15% of its workforce as the platform pivots resources to AI

July 16, 2016 | TechXplore AI
Pinterest will lay off 15% of its workforce as the platform pivots resources to AI
Banners for Pinterest, displayed to mark the fifth anniversary of the company's listing, hang on the front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, May 15, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File Pinterest plans to lay off under 15% of its workforce, as part of broader restructuring that arrives as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to artificial intelligence. In a Tuesday securities filing, San Francisco-based Pinterest said it was m

A mascot for Claude Code: how to know when the assistant is waiting for a response and not miss the Windows notification / Habr

July 16, 2016 | Habr AI
A mascot for Claude Code: how to know when the assistant is waiting for a response and not miss the Windows notification / Habr
The program listens for HTTP requests on 127.0.0.1:47821, and the hook simply sends it whatever it received on stdin.The || exit 0 part is needed so that, when the mascot isn’t running, the command exits silently with code 0: otherwise, Claude Code would show a hook error on every event. This command also works the same way in both bash and cmd.The server rejects requests with an Origin header. This prevents an arbitrary web page in the browser from connec

LINE and PayPay to link accounts in summer 2026, enabling transfers and bill splitting in chats; LINE Points to be integrated - ITmedia NEWS

July 10, 2016 | ITmedia NEWS
LINE and PayPay to link accounts in summer 2026, enabling transfers and bill splitting in chats; LINE Points to be integrated - ITmedia NEWS
PayPay and LINE Yahoo announced on July 2 that they will begin linking “LINE” and “PayPay” accounts in summer 2026. Once linked, users will be able to send money and split bills in LINE conversations without opening the PayPay app. Linking LINE and PayPay accounts (Source: Press release; the same applies to the following images) The linking will make it possible to use the PayPay balance’s “Send/Receive” feature in LINE conversations. Splitting bills will

OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses

July 6, 2016 | The Decoder
OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses
OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, instead of Anthropic's Claude. According to The Information, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI leaned heavily on Astra's outputs to train their latest models. People familiar with the matter say this includ

AI-written critiques help humans notice flaws

July 29, 2016 | OpenAI News
AI-written critiques help humans notice flaws
We trained “critique-writing” models to describe flaws in summaries. Human evaluators find flaws in summaries much more often when shown our model’s critiques. Larger models are better at self-critiquing, with scale improving critique-writing more than summary-writing. This shows promise for using AI systems to assist human supervision of AI systems on difficult tasks.