💼 Zoom Isn't Enough for Zoom

💼 Even Zoom Seeks More Than Virtual

Zoom is sending some of its workers back to the office.

Yes, you heard that right. The company that makes remote work possible is telling its employees to work in person.

Why? Well, according to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, it’s because remote work makes it hard for employees to get to know each other and trust each other. Yuan said, “Trust is a foundation for everything. Without trust, we will be slow.”

He also said that Zoom doesn’t help employees have the kind of conversations and debates that lead to innovation.

Employees who live within 50 miles of a Zoom office that they have to work there at least two days a week.

Although many companies have announced return-to-office mandates, including Amazon and Meta. This decision is still surprising given the role Zoom’s technology plays in remote work.

⏳ North Korean Hackers Set to Cash Out $40 Million in Stolen Cryptocurrency

Are you still holding on to any cryptocurrency?

FBI warned that the North Korean hackers are preparing to cash out the $40 million in stolen cryptocurrency in the coming days.

The FBI has tracked approximately 1,580 Bitcoin — worth more than $40 million — that the North Korean hackers are currently holding in six separate crypto wallets.

These funds were stolen during “several” cryptocurrency heists, including the theft of virtual currency from Atomic Wallet, AlphaPo, and CoinsPaid.

Crypto organizations are urged to examine recent blockchain data linked to six Bitcoin addresses shared by the FBI and “be vigilant in guarding against transactions directly with, or derived from the addresses.”

The U.S. government has announced a $10 million reward for information on members of state-sponsored North Korean threat groups, including the notorious Lazarus Group.

🔧 OpenAI Introduces Fine-Tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo

You can now fine-tune your GPT.

OpenAI has announced that developers can now fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo to suit different use cases, with the feature being available for GPT-4 later this year.

Fine-tuning allows developers to tailor the language model to specific tasks, such as matching a business’s brand voice and tone, producing more natural, human-sounding translations, or formatting API responses as JSON.

Early testers have used fine-tuning to make the model’s outputs more consistent and reliably formatted, improve how well it follows instructions, and match a specific brand’s style and messaging.

Fine-tuning has also allowed for shorter prompts, up to 90% shorter in some cases., speeding up API calls and reducing compute costs.

GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning is available now in beta. OpenAI recommends its gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model for most use cases.

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