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Hi there, this is your daily ☕️ Techpresso.
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💥 Microsoft to axe 'thousands' of its sales staff
🧠 MIT study shows AI chatbots greatly reduce brain activity
🔍 The 'OpenAI Files' push for oversight in the race to AGI
🏭 Amazon to deliver 10,000 robotaxis annually with new factory
🎬 Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model
🎁 + 20 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 💥 Microsoft to axe 'thousands' of its sales staff LINK
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- Microsoft will axe thousands more positions, mainly impacting the sales division; an official announcement is expected next month after its fiscal year end.
- Bloomberg reports these job reductions are linked to Microsoft's heavy investments in artificial intelligence, including building AI-enabled data centres and deploying AI applications.
- This planned staff reduction follows multiple recent workforce cuts, including 6,000 people last month, as Microsoft also aims to reduce its management layers.
| 🧠 MIT study shows AI chatbots greatly reduce brain activity LINK
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- An MIT study found students using an LLM chatbot for essay writing showed significantly reduced brain activity, as measured by electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets.
- Brain connectivity, gauged by dDTF, systematically scaled down with more external help, showing the weakest coupling and up to a 55 percent reduction in signal for the LLM cohort.
- This research indicates that relying on LLMs substantially lessens task-related brain connectivity, signaling lower cognitive engagement from students during the essay writing.
| 🔍 The 'OpenAI Files' push for oversight in the race to AGI LINK
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- "The OpenAI Files" is an archival project by tech watchdogs that documents concerns about OpenAI's governance and leadership, pushing for oversight in AGI development.
- These files highlight OpenAI's structural changes like removing investor profit caps, alongside rushed safety evaluations and potential leadership conflicts of interest demanding scrutiny.
- This initiative seeks to shift the AGI conversation from inevitability to accountability, demanding increased transparency and robust oversight for powerful AI companies.
| 🏭 Amazon to deliver 10,000 robotaxis annually with new factory LINK
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- Amazon revealed its 220,000-square-foot robotaxi factory in Hayward, California, where it plans to manufacture up to 10,000 Zoox self-driving vehicles annually by 2027.
- Zoox's Hayward facility now assembles one robotaxi per day, with plans to increase production to three vehicles each hour by next year on its 21-station assembly line.
- Zoox transformed a former bus manufacturing plant into a high-tech Hayward facility to assemble its boxy, gondola-like robotaxis, distinctively designed without any steering wheel.
| 🎬 Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model LINK
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- Midjourney launched its first AI video generation model V1, letting users animate their generated or uploaded images into 5-second clips, extendable to 20 seconds.
- Animation of stills uses automated motion synthesis or a custom motion prompt to direct movement, offering choices between low motion and high motion modes.
- The model launches as Midjourney faces a major copyright lawsuit, which specifically names the new video service as a future infringement concern.
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FROM OUR PARTNER
Future Cardia walked away from Y Combinator (S21) and turned down $5M in VC funding to stay laser-focused on their mission.
Why investors are joining Future Cardia:
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60,000+ hours of real-world heart data already collected
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$117B+ global market projected by 2032 and growing fast
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Elite team from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and Stanford
Future Cardia is moving fast. That's why they're featured twice today.
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Other news & articles you might like
- Report: Meta targets former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman to boost its AI research efforts LINK
- Microsoft prepared to abandon high-stakes talks with OpenAI, FT reports LINK
- OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different 'personas' LINK
- xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits LINK
- Google looks likely to lose appeal against record $4.7 billion EU fine LINK
- 6-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash LINK
- Report: Google's switch to TSMC for Pixel 10 chip was a 'shock' and wake-up call for Samsung LINK
- DOJ seizes record $225 million in crypto tied to global 'pig butchering' scams LINK
- Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening LINK
- Foldable iPhone set to begin production in late 2025 LINK
- Apple explores using generative AI to design its chips - executive says 'it can be a huge productivity boost' LINK
- OpenAI walks away from Scale AI - triggering industry-wide rethink of data partnerships LINK
- Texas Instruments will invest $60 billion in U.S. chipmaking LINK
- YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts LINK
- YouTube slows down videos for ad blockers, prepares more 30-second unskippable ads LINK
- Google's AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations LINK
- Some AI Prompts Can Cause 50 Times More CO2 Emissions Than Others LINK
- This AI Model Never Stops Learning LINK
- Waymo cars are coming to New York, but with a driver behind the wheel LINK
- SpaceX's next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Unregistry: a lightweight container image registry allowing direct Docker image pushes to remote servers via SSH, transferring only missing layers efficiently. LINK
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Bento: a compact computer designed for external spatial displays, fitting under a keyboard for improved portability by omitting a built-in screen. LINK
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Fang: a CLI Starter Kit that helps build command-line tools with automatic versioning, custom themes, and a silent output user experience after errors. LINK
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Claude Code Usage Monitor: a real-time terminal tool monitoring Claude AI token usage and predicting depletion to help users avoid exceeding their token limits. LINK
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A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly: it is compiled into a bootable ISO image with GRUB, designed to run in the QEMU emulator. LINK
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Style over Substance: Distilled Language Models Reason via Stylistic Replication: distilled language models tend to copy the writing style of their larger teacher models to appear as if they are reasoning, rather than truly understanding the reasoning process itself. LINK
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