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🚕 Waymo scales back robotaxi service nationwide
👁️ Neuralink chip might give humans infrared sight
❌ Google plans to cut ties with Scale AI after Meta deal
🎧 Google can now generate a fake AI podcast of your search results
🥷 Chinese AI firms smuggle hard drives to evade chip restrictions
🎁 + 13 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 🚕 Waymo scales back robotaxi service nationwide LINK
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- Waymo is limiting robotaxi service in San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, and Atlanta after several vehicles were attacked during recent Los Angeles anti-ICE protests.
- Operations in Los Angeles will pause completely, where multiple Waymo vehicles were set ablaze by protesters during these same city demonstrations this week.
- These nationwide service adjustments reflect concerns over the high cost of its expensive robotaxis and their history as targets during periods of civil unrest.
| 👁️ Neuralink chip might give humans infrared sight LINK
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- Neuralink's Blindsight brain implant, currently tested in monkeys, intends to restore vision and might one day enable new capabilities like infrared sight.
- At a recent conference, Neuralink engineers reported the Blindsight device successfully stimulated vision-linked brain areas in a monkey during experimental tests with the animal.
- The monkey involved in Blindsight tests responded by moving its eyes toward what researchers wanted it to visualize over sixty-six percent of the time.
| ❌ Google plans to cut ties with Scale AI after Meta deal LINK
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- Google intends to stop using AI data-labeling startup Scale AI, its top data provider, after learning competitor Meta is taking a 49% stake in the firm.
- This move stems from Google's fear that Meta could access its proprietary data and AI model development plans, shared with Scale for annotating data.
- Consequently, Google is already seeking other data-labeling services for its AI models like Gemini, impacting a planned $200 million annual payment to Scale AI.
| 🎧 Google can now generate a fake AI podcast of your search results LINK
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- Google now generates a fake AI podcast of your search results where two nonexistent people discuss findings, available as an "Audio Overviews" test.
- This experimental feature is in Search Labs, requiring a click on a "generate" button to create the summary which appears below initial search results.
- The embedded player for this AI conversation lists sources from the overview and offers playback speed controls, extending a similar NotebookLM function.
| 🥷 Chinese AI firms smuggle hard drives to evade chip restrictions LINK
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- Chinese tech workers reportedly flew to Malaysia, each carrying fifteen hard drives holding 80 terabytes of data apiece for training AI models.
- Once in Malaysia, this data was processed using 300 rented Nvidia AI servers within a local data center to build the AI model.
- This data export strategy to Malaysian facilities emerged as U.S. bans made importing advanced Nvidia chips into China increasingly difficult for AI development.
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- New paper pushes back on Apple's LLM 'reasoning collapse' study LINK
- Google's Veo 3 AI Slopfest Just Reached New Heights LINK
- Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market LINK
- Apple's new AI benchmarks show its models still lag behind leaders like OpenAI and Google LINK
- Milestone one billionth Github Repo is just the word 'sh*t' LINK
- ChatGPT users experienced psychotic episodes after following harmful advice from the chatbot, LINK
- Discord flaw lets hackers reuse expired invites in malware campaign LINK
- Rabbit launches "intern," a software AI agent designed to handle team-level projects LINK
- Google's Wiz acquisition draws antitrust interest from Justice Department LINK
- Nvidia to exclude China from its revenue and profit forecasts LINK
- Silicon Valley tech execs are joining the US Army Reserve LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Self-Adapting Language Models: these language models can automatically adjust their own operations and knowledge when encountering new information, improving their performance without requiring full retraining. LINK
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Green Tea Garbage Collector: a parallel marking algorithm for Go intended to speed up garbage collection by better utilizing memory and reducing access delays. LINK
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Filedb: a disk-based key-value store for rapidly storing and accessing data, offering high throughput and a Redis-compatible client. LINK
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Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models: this paper presents methods to extract knowledge from language models without direct human supervision. LINK
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Bloxi: an AI copilot for Simulink that turns plain-English prompts into working control-system models and can debug them in real time. LINK
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Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers: this paper proposes new loss functions for training diffusion bridge samplers that are simpler to implement, more stable to train, and yield better performance. LINK
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