Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:
A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor’s offices, and other places — If you’ve ever been through a large US airport, you’re probably at least vaguely aware of Clear. Maybe your interest (or irritation) …
Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI’s o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia’s business moving forward (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI’s o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia’s business moving forward — Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the last quarter, the company reported on Wednesday …
A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy — Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle …
Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google’s search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press)
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google’s search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices — U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through …
Filing: the US DOJ’s proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ’s proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers — – Antitrust officials propose options in historic lawsuit — Google says government pushing ‘radical agenda’ beyond case
As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade (Brian Fung/CNN)
Brian Fung / CNN:
As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade — The US government formally proposed a partial breakup of Google on Wednesday, urging a federal judge to force a sale …
OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology — OpenAI envisions teachers using its AI-powered tools to create lesson plans and interactive tutorials for students.
Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations (Rod McGuirk/Associated Press)
Rod McGuirk / Associated Press:
Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations — Australia’s communications minister introduced a world-first law into Parliament on Thursday that would ban children younger than 16 from social media …
Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital — The billionaire’s brain device company is currently recruiting patients in the US, UK and Canada.
Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors (Matt Swayne/The Quantum Insider)
Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors — – Google researchers introduced AlphaQubit, an AI-powered decoder that improves quantum error correction, reducing errors by 6% compared …
