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AI Trash Talk Heats Up: OpenAI, Anthropic Battle!

The Super Bowl offered more than just a football game this year; it also served as a battleground for artificial intelligence companies, with Anthropic launching a series of ads directly targeting OpenAI's plans for advertising within its ChatGPT chatbot. The ads, which cost millions of dollars, featured headlines like "Deception" and "Betrayal," and carried the tagline "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude," highlighting Anthropic's commitment to keeping its Claude chatbot ad-free (Fortune).

The Super Bowl ads, a first for Anthropic, were a clear jab at OpenAI's strategy, according to Fortune. While the ads didn't explicitly mention OpenAI, the message was unmistakable. The move signals a shift in the AI landscape, with companies increasingly vying for dominance through public perception and positioning. The annual football extravaganza provided a vivid snapshot of how the long-running AI rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic has erupted into a much noisier contest over perception, positioning, and power (Fortune).

Beyond the AI advertising clash, other tech developments were also making headlines. According to multiple sources, the next generation Sony WF-1000XM6 wireless earbuds are expected to feature significant upgrades, including a faster processor, an increase from six to eight microphones, and improvements to the speaker, DAC, and amplifier (The Verge). These enhancements aim to improve active noise cancellation and overall audio quality, while maintaining the same battery life as the previous model (The Verge).

Meanwhile, in the realm of audio technology, a post on Hacker News discussed audio enhancements for the Game Boy Advance. The post described how an emulator can implement audio interpolation to reduce audio aliasing and noise, resulting in cleaner sound. The post included a comparison of "Accurate interpolation" versus "Enhanced interpolation" in Metroid: Zero Mission, demonstrating the improvement in audio quality (Hacker News).

In a separate project highlighted on Hacker News, an individual created an ESP8266 WiFi Analog Clock. The project uses a WEMOS D1 Mini ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to connect to a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server, automatically retrieving and displaying the local time on an inexpensive analog quartz clock. The clock also automatically adjusts for daylight savings time (Hacker News). The creator used a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart, modifying its quartz movement to be controlled by the ESP8266 module (Hacker News).

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