Google details an AI model trained on 400+ languages with the largest “coverage seen in a speech model” and plans to expand to the 1,000 most spoken languages (James Vincent/The Verge)

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:
Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for languages that are primarily spoken rather than written, which can currently translate between Hokkien and English  —  Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component.

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google says its multisearch tool, which lets users search using both images and text, will expand to more than 70 languages in the next few months  —  Google’s impressive multisearch tool, which lets you search using both an image and some text, will be expanding to more than 70 global languages …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple scales back ambitious self-driving plans for its electric vehicle, now delayed to 2026 with a design that includes a steering wheel and pedals  —  Apple Inc. has scaled back ambitious self-driving plans for its future electric vehicle and postponed the car’s target launch date …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web”  —  Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.  In a step toward solving it …

Stephen Witt / New Yorker:
A deep dive into the race to develop a quantum computer, which could help address climate change and food scarcity, break current encryption protocols, and more  —  Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet.  Will the U.S. or China get there first?

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI’s GPT-3, Google’s LaMDA, Meta’s OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data  —  Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet.  So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?