Technology News for Saturday 9th March 2024

1. 'Stranger Things' Actor Gaten Matarazzo Teams Up With Nintendo for Mario Day

It's-a Mario Day, which means deep discounts on select Mario games for the Nintendo Switch, including "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" and "Mario Party Superstar.".

2. Is Austin the next boomtown? Investor Jim Breyer, UT leaders talk AI and medicine

Just weeks after the death of his wife Angela Chao, tech investor Jim Breyer joined University of Texas President Jay Hartzell, UT Dell Medical School Dean Claurdia Lucchinetti, fellow tech investor Thomas Cahill, and medical artificial intelligence ...

3. Biden the President Wants to Curb TikTok. Biden the Candidate Embraces Its Stars.

The White House is so concerned about the security risks of TikTok that federal workers are not allowed to use the app on their government phones. Top Biden administration officials have even helped craft legislation that could ban TikTok in the United ...

4. Meet Pi, the world's 'friendliest' chatbot powered by the new Inflection-2.5 LLM

In less than a week, two Large Language Models (LLMs) have been launched that are closer to or even better at tasks than OpenAI's GPT-4. After Anthropic's Claude 3 captured the attention of the AI community, Inflection AI launched its latest LLM, ...