Sam Altman seeks trillions of dollars to rebuild chip and AI businesses
Keech Hagee | Wall Street Journal
“OpenAI’s CEO said he would strengthen the world’s chip manufacturing capacity, expand its ability to power AI and more, and raise funding for hugely ambitious technology initiatives that will cost a few bucks.” The project is in talks with investors, including the United Arab Emirates government, in a deal valued in the trillions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter.The project could require as much as $5 trillion to $7 trillion in financing. “It’s possible,” one of the people said.
AI is rewiring programmers’ brains.the next one could be yours
Will Knight | Wired
“Microsoft, the owner of GitHub, said in its latest quarterly results that it now has 1.3 million paid Copilot accounts, an increase of 30% from the previous quarter, and that 50,000 different companies use the software. Domke said Copilot’s latest usage data shows that nearly half of the code written by users was generated by AI. He argues that there is little indication that AI programs can operate without human supervision.”
Google prepares for a future where search is not king
lauren good wired
“[Sundar] Pichai…is experimenting with a new vision from Google. We’re not replacing search yet, but we’re building an alternative to see what sticks. “As search evolves, mobile comes out, and user interactions change, this is how we’ve always approached search, adapting to it,” he said ahead of Gemini’s launch. Pichai said in an interview with Wired. “In some cases, like with multimodal AI, we lead the user. But we want to be flexible about the future, because otherwise we’ll end up going in the wrong direction.”
Turbocharged CAR-T cells dissolve tumors in mice – harnessing a cancer cell trick
Asher Mallard | Nature
“The research team treated mice with blood cancers and solid tumors with several CARD11-PIK3R3-enriched T cell therapies and watched the animals’ tumors dissolve. Choi He said researchers typically use about 1 million cells to treat these mice, but even 20,000 T cells enriched with cancer mutations are enough to wipe out tumors. That’s a surprisingly low number of cells,” says Nick Restifo, a cell therapy researcher and principal scientist at Marble Therapeutics, a rejuvenation startup in Boston, Massachusetts. ”
OpenAI wants to control your computer
Maxwell Zeff | Gizmodo
“OpenAI is reportedly developing ‘agent software’ that effectively takes over users’ devices and completes complex tasks on their behalf.” information. OpenAI’s agents work across multiple apps on your computer to perform clicks, cursor movement, and text input. This is truly a new type of operating system, and it has the potential to completely change the way you interact with your computer. ”
New car battery that could spark an electric vehicle revolution
nicola jones nature
“Researchers are experimenting with different designs that can reduce costs, extend vehicle range, and provide other improvements. …Chinese manufacturers are powering today’s best electric vehicles (EVs). announced a low-cost car in 2024 with a battery based on cheap sodium, one of the most abundant elements in the earth’s crust, rather than lithium, which supplies We surprised the world with our dream cell, which can store enough energy to power an airplane.”
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I stopped using passwords.It’s great but completely confusing
Matt Burgess | Wired
“Last month, I started a journey to convert as many accounts as possible (about 12 so far) to use passkeys and eliminate passwords completely. Spoiler: Once passkeys worked seamlessly, I started working on converting as many accounts as possible (about 12 so far) to using passkeys. It offers a glimpse of a more secure future for millions, if not billions, of people, reinventing the way they sign in to websites and services. is still a minefield and will likely take some time.”
Instant fusion breakthrough faces harsh reality
Ed Gent | IEEE Spectrum
“In December 2022, when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) revealed that nuclear fusion reactions produced more energy than was needed to start the fusion reaction. , the dream of fusion power has moved closer to reality. The feat of instantaneous fusion requires exquisite choreography and extensive preparation, and the level of difficulty makes it difficult to make practical use of it, according to new research. It makes clear that we have a long way to go before anyone expects to have power sources at hand.”
Introducing “Smaug-72B”: The new king of open source AI
Michael Nuñez | Venture Beat
“Most notable in today’s release is that Smaug-72B is two of the most advanced proprietary large-scale language models developed by OpenAI and Mistral, respectively, in several of the most popular benchmarks. GPT-3.5 and Mistral Medium. Although the model still falls short of the 90-100 average points that indicate human-level performance, its birth suggests that open source AI will soon This suggests that they have the potential to match the capabilities of Big Tech.”
AI-generated voices in robocalls can mislead voters. FCC just made them illegal
Ari Swenson Associated Press
” [FCC] On Thursday, it made robocalls that include voices generated by artificial intelligence illegal. This decision sends a clear message that this technology cannot be misused to deceive people and mislead voters. …The agency’s president, Jessica Rosenworcel, said bad actors are using AI-generated voices in robocalls to misinform voters, impersonate celebrities, and blackmail families. He said there was. “It seems like a distant future, but this threat is already here,” Rosenworcel told The Associated Press on Wednesday as the commission considered the regulations.
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