Trump's win as president shook up the markets. Bitcoin jumped 13%, reaching a new high as people got excited about what his pro-business policies might bring. Stocks like the S&P 500 also rose. But, oddly, gold dropped, guess folks feel safer betting on crypto now.
🧵 1/ The latest ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study reveals a global shortage of 4.8 million cybersecurity professionals. Growth in the workforce has stalled due to budget cuts, with 58% of respondents highlighting the risk to organizations
🧵 2/ AI and outsourcing are seen as solutions to bridge the talent gap, though AI is not expected to fully replace human expertise. Cyber professionals are upskilling in AI to stay relevant, with 66% viewing AI as a career opportunity.
Elon Musk says making Tesla's robot Optimus is hard because they need to design it to be easy to build and make many of them. Hopefully as AI improves, it'll help make developing stuff like this easier
I believe that's what it means, perhaps utility is much easier. It's a new tech so they're entering new terrain no wonder there are such challenges and the investor pressures to see something good ain't an easy thing too
Saudi Arabia is investing a massive $100 billion in AI, hoping to create a global tech hub. They’re building data centers and attracting top talent. They’re betting on AI to shape their future and that's pretty smart because in my opinion I don't see the future of tech outside of Ai.
I tried ChatGPT Search and Perplexity AI, two new AI search tools. ChatGPT is fast but Perplexity felt more detailed in certain searches. Both are impressive, but for now, Perplexity seems more consistent. Honestly, each has its strengths, so I’d say it’s all about preference!
Yeah and LeoAi could really monetize it. If done well. Most of these chatbots charge over 20 dollars a month. I think 10 bucks would drive a lot of people here. And as I read it buys back the token, that would drives the price up.
🧵 1/ IT spending in Europe is set to hit $1.28 trillion in 2025, a 8.7% increase from 2024. This surge is driven by higher investments in AI infrastructure and cloud services.
🧵 2/ CIOs are also ramping up spending on security, which is expected to reach $47 billion in 2024. 2025 is forecast to be the year with the highest IT spending growth since the post-pandemic boom of 2021. #ITspending #AI #Cloud #Security
AI is changing search engines. It makes finding answers faster but my concern is that it may take away the fun of exploring and learning new things. Through scrolling sites you find more things
Phillip Toledano’s new project uses AI to imagine lost photos from D-Day, originally taken by famous WWII photographer Robert Capa. He’s crafted it as a 1944-style newspaper, making history feel close. It’s beautiful and amazing to see how technology can help us connect with stories we thought were gone.
yes it will take a long time man, but with the speed of AI I think it can help make technology advancement faster and we might see things we never thought we would see in our life time
Lilian Weng, a top safety expert at OpenAI, announced she's leaving after seven years. She’s had a big role in making AI safer. It seems like OpenAI’s safety team is seeing a lot of changes lately. I wonder how this might impact the company’s future.
The crypto industry poured over $119 million into supporting pro-crypto candidates in U.S. Congressional races, aiming to elect leaders who favor digital assets. With key wins, this could signal a more crypto-friendly Congress.
Top investments included supporting Bernie Moreno in Ohio against crypto-skeptic Sherrod Brown, and Ruben Gallego in Arizona, who aligns with crypto-friendly policies. Despite heavy backing, not all investments paid off, with pro-crypto candidate John Deaton losing to Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts.
LA’s tech scene is booming, with AI startups attracting a record $1.8 billion in funding last quarter! LA is growing as a tech hub, especially in healthcare and defense.
Feels like “Silicon Beach” might really be happening!
Silicon Valley’s view on Trump seems to have softened this time around. When he first won in 2016, tech leaders were really upset. Now, many are ready to work with his team. Yeah, adopt or perish people. Love him or hate him, you gonna have to kiss his ass for the next 4 years 😂.
After halvings the prices usually rise due to reduced supply. We're halfway through so big price jumps are expected in the next years. Plus Trump is president so let's see some policies add up
ChatGPT recently blocked over 250,000 image requests of real people, like Trump and Harris, around Election Day. OpenAI says it was to avoid misleading or harmful uses, especially during elections. They even partnered with CanIVote.org to direct questions there. Feels like a cautious move, but necessary.
ASML, a big name in making computer chip equipment, had an IT outage that briefly stopped work and made some employees go remote. Luckily, they fixed it, but the cause is still unknown.
ChatGPT had a short outage that affected a lot of people. OpenAI got it back up after about 30 minutes. CEO Sam Altman even shared a frown emoji – guess he wasn’t too happy about it.
Detroit’s going big on Bitcoin! Soon, residents can pay taxes with crypto, thanks to a new partnership with PayPal. They’re aiming to make life easier, especially for folks without bank accounts. I think it’s a smart move for Detroit, embracing tech and thinking forward.
A judge decided that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, won’t face personal charges in lawsuits saying Meta’s social media harms kids. The judge felt there wasn’t enough proof of his direct role in causing harm, but cases against Meta as a company will still go on.
After Trump won the election, there’s been a buzz about creating a U.S. “Bitcoin Reserve” (which he promised in his campaign message). It’s like a savings account but in Bitcoin instead of dollars.
Trump believes this could even help reduce the nation’s debt! Now, several states are interested in starting their own Bitcoin reserves, which might make the U.S. a leader in Bitcoin adoption.
Wow, almost everyone with Bitcoin is making money right now. Nearly 99.9% of people holding Bitcoin are in profit since it’s hit an all-time high. Honestly, seeing this makes me wish I’d invested earlier! But, history says Bitcoin’s price might dip soon, just something to keep in mind.
Gemini AI Now Accessible Through the OpenAI Library for Streamlined Use
Google has introduced Gemini, a new AI model aimed at providing a more accessible and developer-friendly platform for developers. This update is expected to offer enhanced opportunities for developers to utilize AI technology in their projects.
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang believes AI will soon touch every part of science and engineering. He says in just a couple of years, every big discovery will involve AI.
From designing computer chips to improving business tools everywhere.
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, believes we'll soon have AI coworkers doing different jobs, like helping with marketing or designing. It sounds wild, right? But he thinks it could make work faster and maybe even save jobs. Who knew our next "colleague" might be a computer!
YouTube's raising prices again. People with old YouTube Premium plans, like those from Google Play Music, are finally losing their price breaks. Starting soon, they’ll have to pay the full monthly fee, like everyone else. Some lucky folks will get three more months at the old rate, but that’s it.
Google’s new app, Vids, uses AI to make video presentations simple. You just give it a prompt, and it’ll add stock clips, script, and even voiceovers. No need to record anything yourself. It’s mostly for work teams, but still pretty cool tech!
Trump’s return could mean big changes in tech, AI, crypto, and even electric cars. He might loosen rules around AI and crypto, but with tariffs on China and fewer incentives for electric vehicles, tech companies could feel the hit. In other words, Elon made a smart move.
Block Inc., led by Jack Dorsey, is shifting its focus towards developing tools for Bitcoin miners and enhancing its self-custody crypto wallet, Bitkey. The company plans to reduce its investment in TIDAL, Jay-Z's music streaming platform, and wind down TBD, its Bitcoin-focused unit.
This shift coincides with Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, as he has expressed support for Bitcoin mining in the US and criticized the previous administration's stance on cryptocurrency. Block Inc. aims to invest in its bitcoin mining initiative and Bitkey, while also cutting costs and reallocating resources. This strategic move follows earlier layoffs at the company.
Ethereum has experienced a surge in buying pressure near the $2.4K support level, leading to a significant price increase and the reclaiming of key resistance levels. This indicates a potential shift towards a bullish market sentiment, with expectations of higher price levels in the mid-term. The daily chart shows intensified buying near the $2.4K boundary, resulting in Ethereum breaking through critical resistance points, including the 100-day and 200-day moving averages, and the upper boundary of a descending channel.
This performance signals a bullish shift, with the possibility of reaching a new all-time high by year-end. The 4-hour chart reveals a surge from $2.4K, surpassing the $2.8K resistance and approaching the upper boundary of a flag pattern at $3.1K.
However, a short-term rejection and corrective retracement may occur, setting the stage for a healthier uptrend. Onchain analysis of the fund market premium metric shows a substantial decline from Ethereum's all-time high, followed by a modest rise since January 2023, indicating renewed market optimism and robust demand for Ethereum funds. This positive shift in the premium metric could reinforce Ethereum's broader price momentum and contribute to its future price growth trajectory.
Bitcoin's price has surged past $77,000 for the first time, and according to CoinDesk senior analyst James Van Straten, it is poised to continue its upward trajectory. This suggests a strong bullish sentiment in the market, indicating potential for further price increases.
Optimus, a robot developed by Tesla, is designed to be an ideal assistant for the elderly, offering a range of services to make their daily lives easier. This advanced robot is capable of tasks like safe cooking assistance, reminding seniors to take their medication, and providing interactive companionship, all of which contribute to enhancing the quality of life and independence for those living at home. Optimus is positioned as a valuable aid in supporting elderly individuals in managing their daily routines and maintaining a higher level of autonomy.
However, those interested in having an Optimus robot in their home will need to wait until 2026, when mass production is expected to begin. In addition to the wait, potential buyers will need to budget between USD20,000 and USD30,000 for the purchase of the robot. Elon Musk has also stated that while the price range may seem steep, it is expected to decrease over time, making the robot more affordable and accessible to a broader audience in the future. The price is projected to be lower than that of a car, further indicating its potential for widespread adoption.
Tesla has described Optimus as a "human companion" with a focus on safely assisting with a variety of household tasks, including those that involve caring for the elderly. Examples of tasks that Optimus can perform include picking up packages, watering plants, and other domestic chores. These functions showcase how Optimus can be integrated into daily life, particularly in helping elderly individuals manage their home responsibilities and provide them with valuable support.
Initially, there were speculations that the Optimus robot would be designed exclusively for use in Tesla's auto manufacturing plants, with no indication of it being developed for residential purposes. However, Elon Musk clarified on the X platform that Tesla plans to produce a limited number of humanoid robots for internal use within the company starting in 2025. This statement reassures that the development of Optimus is intended to expand beyond industrial applications and into home environments in the near future.
So, what exactly is First Principles Thinking? It’s a form of reasoning where you begin by identifying and understanding the fundamental principles of a problem or situation. Instead of relying on analogies or conventional wisdom, this approach encourages you to start with what you know to be true and reason up from there. By dissecting problems into their most basic, self-evident truths, you’re able to construct new solutions or insights that aren’t limited by current assumptions or beliefs.
Easier said then done. We should e-mail this to our representatives (Congress, Parliment, Knesset; whichever is our Country's flavor of government structure).
Thanks for this Task. I think I will do that today! Note to self...
🧵 1/ Microsoft has confirmed that Outlook crashes if too many emails are open at once, with the issue occurring when more than 60 emails are open. To avoid this, users are advised to keep the number of open emails under 60.
🧵 2/ Alternatively, adjusting the Windows registry to increase the process quota is possible, but Microsoft warns this may cause system instability. #Outlook #TechIssues #Microsoft
🧵 1/ Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice has proposed a new law to protect individuals who discover and responsibly report security vulnerabilities from criminal charges.
🧵 2/ To qualify for protection, the person must intend to identify a vulnerability and report it to the responsible party. The law also allows exceptions for data eavesdropping and modification if done legitimately.
🧵 1/ The Canadian government has banned ByteDance and its subsidiary TikTok Technology Canada from operating in the country, citing national security concerns.
🧵 2/ However, this decision does not ban the popular app for the general public, though government employees are prohibited from installing TikTok on their devices. TikTok's Canadian office will close, leading to the loss of local jobs.
The optimized surface completely prevents frost formation on flat areas for up to one week.
One day, we might finally say goodbye to defrosting freezers or scraping frost off slippery surfaces. Engineers at Northwestern University have developed a new strategy to prevent frost formation before it even starts.
In a new study, the researchers discovered that tweaking the texture of any surface and adding a thin layer of graphene oxide prevents 100% frost from forming on surfaces for one week or potentially even longer. This is 1,000 times longer than current, state-of-the-art anti-frosting surfaces.
As an added bonus, the new scalable surface design also is resistant to cracks, scratches, and contamination.
By incorporating the textured surface into infrastructure, the researchers imagine companies and government agencies could save billions of dollars per year in averted maintenance costs and energy inefficiencies.
The research was recently published in the journal Science Advances.
Unwanted frost accumulation is a major concern across industrial, residential, and government sectors,” said Northwestern’s Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park, who led the study. “For example, the 2021 power crisis in Texas cost $195 billion in damages, resulting directly from frost, ice, and extreme cold conditions for more than 160 hours. Thus, it is critical to develop anti-frosting techniques, which are robust for long periods of time in extreme environmental conditions. It is also necessary to develop anti-frosting methods which are easy to fabricate and implement. We designed our hybrid anti-frosting technique with all of these needs in mind. It can prevent frosting for potentially weeks at a time and is scalable, durable, and easily fabricated through 3D printing.”
Park is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and a faculty affiliate of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy and the International Institute for Nanotechnology.
This could save a lot of money and energy during cold climates. It feels like soon science will have a solution for all problems, the only thing is if I'll live long enough to see all that
The leading cryptocurrency has gained significant momentum following Donald Trump's election win
Bitcoin surged to a new all-time high of just over $77,000 on Friday, continuing its record-breaking streak following Donald Trump’s reelection as President of the United States. The strong support from the crypto community for Trump’s return to the White House is fueling Bitcoin’s upward momentum, making its rise appear unstoppable as of now.
Bitcoin’s rise proves how political events can give investors confidence. Trump’s policies may attract support no doubt but Bitcoin is still volatile, how will they encourage people in spite of that
And Here I am awaiting the $100K bull run in 2025. I believe it Bitcoin will surpass 100K it's 2025 because politics around it is good although crypto doesn't need a president anyways. It's good for adoption I think
The leading cryptocurrency hit a record high of $77,239 at approximately 3:00 PM on Friday. According to crypto tracking website CoinGecko, the top cryptocurrency has surged 113,011% since 2013. This means a $1000 investment in Bitcoin back then would now be worth over $1 million.
Bitcoin’s price is expected to rise further, showing heightened optimism and enthusiasm among investors due to recent political developments. The momentum shows no signs of slowing — among seasoned traders and newcomers alike. Some even anticipate when the top cryptocurrency will cross the $100,000 level.
Investors poured over $1B into Bitcoin ETFs in one day
Following Trump’s reelection, investors are pouring funds into the spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds). On November 7th alone, U.S. Bitcoin ETFs recorded unprecedented inflows of $1.3 billion. BlackRock (BLK
+0.27%
), the world’s largest asset manager, led with over $1 billion directed into its Bitcoin ETF, while Fidelity’s FBTC saw an inflow of $190 million, according to data from Farside.
What specific policies or factors associated with Trump’s presidency might be driving the crypto community’s support for Bitcoin, do you think?
Is it mostly hype or is there something else also?
Well in my opinion, because of what Elon did to help, he will not put as much sanctions as he wanted to. But China will still dominate since they've got resources
I think EV growth will slow since he supports fossil fuels. Tesla may benefit from fewer rules, but the EV market might grow slower without government help and support.
Google unveiled its new AI chip, Trillium which is faster and more energy efficient than the old one. They really want compete with Nvidia’s H200 GPUs.
Standard Chartered believes the crypto market could grow 4 times by 2026, with Bitcoin hitting $200k and Ethereum $10k, and it'll all be because of Trump's new regulations.
DeFi needs rules to grow. Agne Linge says regulations will help make it safer. Without them, people may not trust it fully. So what regulations do people really need though 🤔
A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools — and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting the AI chatbot, and its figures are rivaling browser market share. It can only be compared to Google Chrome figures in terms of monthly users, which is estimated to be around 3.45 billion.
I am not surprised about this at all, the moment I heard Search GPT I knew Google was toast. If Google doesn't respond fast with something way more innovative, OpenAI will keep taking more of its revenue
Statistics from Similarweb indicate that ChatGPT saw a 17.2% month-over-month (MoM) growth and a 115.9% year-over-year (YoY) traffic growth. Some highlights that spurned the ChatGPT growth during 2024 include its parent company, OpenAI, updating its web address from a subdomain, chat.openai.com, to a main domain, chatgpt.com. The tool especially saw a surge of traffic in May 2024, when it hit a 2.2-billion-visit milestone, and has been growing ever since, according to Similarweb researcher David F. Carr.
While ChatGPT has had an infamous presence in the technology industry since November 2022, OpenAI, continues to flesh out its product with new versions, features, and supplementary applications, or GPTs, to keep users interested. Recently, the company introduced ChatGPT Search, an in-house search engine feature that allows users to receive real-time answers to queries, such as sports scores, breaking news, and stock quotes.
Many note how the generative AI tool has come full circle to offer services very similar to the industry its intended to displace, Google Search. Overall, the web-based versions of ChatGPT would still rely on browsers to exist. In comparison, Google’s Chrome browser has a solid market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024. It has seen minimal growth YoY but has grown 45.35% in the last 5 years, according to Statscounter.
Other recent news indicates that OpenAI has purchased the domain name Chat.com; however, there is no word on what the company plans to do with this product.
Meanwhile, other AI tools continue to see traffic and growth, despite not being at the same level as ChatGPT. Despite recent plagiarism claims, the Perplexity chatbot has seen 90.8 million visits in October, a 25.5% MoM growth and 199.2% YoY growth. Google’s Gemini Chatbot saw 291.6 million visits in October, a 6.2% MoM growth and 19% YoY growth after the company introduced a new ChromeOS update that brought new AI features to its Chromebooks.
Nir Eisikovits - Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is already here, it is indispensable, and people who are bearish on it harm themselves.
In the businessworld, AI advocates tell companies and workers that they will fall behind if they fail to integrate generative AI into their operations. In the sciences, AI advocates promise that AI will aid in curing hitherto intractable diseases.
In higher education, AI promoters admonish teachers that students must learn how to use AI or risk becoming uncompetitive when the time comes to find a job.
And, in national security, AI’s champions say that either the nation invests heavily in AI weaponry, or it will be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis the Chinese and the Russians, who are already doing so.
One great story every day
The argument across these different domains is essentially the same: The time for AI skepticism has come and gone. The technology will shape the future, whether you like it or not. You have the choice to learn how to use it or be left out of that future. Anyone trying to stand in the technology’s way is as hopeless as the manual weavers who resisted the mechanical looms in the early 19th century.
In the past few years, my colleagues and I at UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Center have been studying the ethical questions raised by the widespread adoption of AI, and I believe the inevitability argument is misleading.
History and hindsight
In fact, this claim is the most recent version of a deterministic view of technological development. It’s the belief that innovations are unstoppable once people start working on them. In other words, some genies don’t go back in their bottles. The best you can do is harness them to your good purposes.
This deterministic approach to tech has a long history. It’s been applied to the influence of the printing press, as well as to the rise of automobiles and the infrastructure they require, among other developments.
vintage cars mix with traffic in a small city street
The dominance of automobiles and the infrastructure that supports them over many decades only seems inevitable in hindsight. Bbeachy2001/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
But I believe that when it comes to AI, the technological determinism argument is both exaggerated and oversimplified.
AI in the field(s)
Consider the contention that businesses can’t afford to stay out of the AI game. In fact, the case has yet to be made that AI is delivering significant productivity gains to the firms that use it. A report in The Economist in July 2024 suggests that so far, the technology has had almost no economic impact.
AI’s role in higher education is also still very much an open question. Though universities have, in the past two years, invested heavily in AI-related initiatives, evidence suggests they may have jumped the gun.
The technology can serve as an interesting pedagogical tool. For example, creating a Plato chatbot that lets students have a text conversation with a bot posing as Plato is a cool gimmick.
But AI is already starting to displace some of the best tools teachers have for assessment and for developing critical thinking, such as writing assignments. The college essay is going the way of the dinosaurs as more teachers give up on the ability to tell whether their students are writing their papers themselves. What’s the cost-benefit argument for giving up on writing, an important and useful traditional skill?
In the sciences and in medicine, the use of AI seems promising. Its role in understanding the structure of proteins, for example, will likely be significant for curing diseases. The technology is also transforming medical imaging and has been helpful in accelerating the drug discovery process.
But the excitement can become exaggerated. AI-based predictions about which cases of COVID-19 would become severe have roundly failed, and doctors rely excessively on the technology’s diagnostic ability, often against their own better clinical judgment. And so, even in this area, where the potential is great, AI’s ultimate impact is unclear.
In retrospect, using AI to help diagnose COVID-19 patients was problematic.
In national security, the argument for investing in AI development is compelling. Since the stakes can be high, the argument that if the Chinese and the Russians are developing AI-driven autonomous weapons, the United States can’t afford to fall behind, has real purchase.
But a complete surrender to this form of reasoning, though tempting, is likely to lead the U.S. to overlook the disproportionate impact of these systems on nations that are too poor to participate in the AI aRMs race. The major powers could deploy the technology in conflicts in these nations. And, just as significantly, this argument de-emphasizes the possibility of collaborating with adversaries on limiting military AI systems, favoring arms race over arms control.
One step at a time
Surveying the potential significance and risks of AI in these different domains merits some skepticism about the technology. I believe that AI should be adopted piecemeal and with a nuanced approach rather than subject to sweeping claims of inevitability. In developing this careful take, there are two things to keep in mind:
First, companies and entrepreneurs working on artificial intelligence have an obvious interest in the technology being perceived as inevitable and necessary, since they make a living from its adoption. It’s important to pay attention to who is making claims of inevitability, and why.
Second, it’s worth taking a lesson from recent history. Over the past 15 years, smartphones and the social media apps that run on them came to be seen as a fact of life – a technology as transformative as it is inevitable.
Then data started emerging about the mental health harms they cause teens, especially young girls. school districts across the United States started to ban phones to protect the attention spans and mental health of their students. And some people have reverted to using flip phones as a quality of life change to avoid smartphones.
After a long experiment with the mental health of kids, facilitated by claims of technological determinism, Americans changed course. What seemed fixed turned out to be alterable. There is still time to avoid repeating the same mistake with artificial intelligence, which potentially could have larger consequences for society.
i believe it's inevitable. Rushing into widespread use without fully understanding the risks could lead to unforeseen problems for all of us. Just like what happened with smartphones.
Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters'
Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters’ information diets, even approximate numbers are interesting to think about. For instance, OpenAI has stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go look somewhere else.
It is based upon the information put in along with the algos. Funny how fakenews has a way of being only on one side and then proving to be true later.
It didn’t just give them a cold shoulder, but recommended some trusted news sources like Reuters and the Associated Press. ChatGPT gave this type of “I’m just an AI, go read the actual news” response over 2 million times on Election Day and the day after, OpenAI explained in an update to a blog post on its elections approach.
In the month leading up to election, ChatGPT sent around a million people to CanIVote.org when they asked questions specific to voting. And interestingly, it also rejected some 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates over the same period.
For comparison, Perplexity, the AI search engine, made a major push to promote its own election information hub, resulting in some 4 million page views, the company claimed (per Bloomberg).
It’s difficult to say whether these numbers are low or high. Certainly they are nowhere near leaders in the news: CNN’s digital properties saw around 67 million unique visitors on Election Day and a similar amount the day after.
Wall Street applauded results from fintech companies Upstart and Toast.
Upstart, which uses artificial intelligence to inform online lending decisions, soared 46% on Friday, its best day in over three years. Toast, which sells payments technology to restaurants, jumped 14%, closing at its highest since 2021.
Both companies reported better-than-expected results, sparking the rallies.
Upstart's revenue jumped 20% in the third quarter to $162 million, easily beating analyst estimates. CEO David Girouard said on the company's earnings call that, "we're in growth mode."
Toast is still well off its pandemic highs of 2021, but the stock has now more than doubled this year. The company's adjusted earnings forecast of $90 million to $100 million for the current quarter sailed past estimates.
The two stocks were part of a huge rally on Wall Street this week that followed Donald Trump's election victory on Tuesday night. All three major indexes closed at records, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq finishing the week up 5.7%, its second-best week of the year.
Within fintech, companies tied to crypto were some of the top performers, after candidates funded by the crypto industry won races up and down the ballot.
Do you have any thought on how might Upstart’s AI lending model impact the future of fintech in the lending space?
Will any defi platform look at similar solutions?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warned Tesla that its online posts may mislead drivers into thinking its cars are robotaxis.
Tesla has falsely suggested in social media posts that its cars are autonomous, potentially misleading and endangering drivers, according to a warning from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"Tesla's X (Twitter) account has re-posted or endorsed postings that exhibit disengaged driver behavior," Gregory Magno, the head of the NHTSA, wrote to Tesla's board in an email in May that was made public on Friday. "Tesla's postings conflict with its stated messaging that the driver is to maintain continued control over the dynamic driving task."
Magno warned that viewers of Tesla's online communications, including posts on X, may expect a car with the company's Full Self-Driving Supervised, or FSD, system to have the capabilities of a robotaxi even though they require human supervision, meaning a driver ready to steer or brake at any time.
Tesla has until Dec. 18 to respond to NHTSA's letter, which also included requests for extensive information about the company's cars and FSD-related technology. A failure to respond could result in a maximum of $135.8 million in penalties. The company can also ask for an extension.
The NHTSA is investigating possible safety defects in Tesla's FSD option, a partially automated driving system. The latest probe followed a series of Tesla collisions that involved the use of FSD within 30 seconds of impact. In one instance, a Tesla driver using FSD fatally struck a pedestrian.
OpenAI's latest AI models are shockingly bad at being right.
OpenAI has released a new benchmark, dubbed "SimpleQA," that's designed to measure the accuracy of the output of its own and competing artificial intelligence models.
In doing so, the AI company has revealed just how bad its latest models are at providing correct answers. In its own tests, its cutting edge o1-preview model, which was released last month, scored an abysmal 42.7 percent success rate on the new benchmark.
In other words, even the cream of the crop of recently announced large language models (LLMs) is far more likely to provide an outright incorrect answer than a right one — a concerning indictment, especially as the tech is starting to pervade many aspects of our everyday lives.
Competing models, like Anthropic's, scored even lower on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark, with its recently released Claude-3.5-sonnet model getting only 28.9 percent of questions right. However, the model was far more inclined to reveal its own uncertainty and decline to answer — which, given the damning results, is probably for the best.
Worse yet, OpenAI found that its own AI models tend to vastly overestimate their own abilities, a characteristic that can lead to them being highly confident in the falsehoods they concoct.
We already knew that OpenAI had a lot of money to throw around. But even for the Sam Altman-led outfit, the money it spent on a — how shall we put this? — spicy domain is staggering.
And hilariously, the purchase makes OpenAI the proud new owner of a domain — Chat.com — that once belonged to an adult video cam and chat room website, as first spotted by PC Gamer.
According to an archived version of the site, it previously hosted video chats in rooms with names like "Sexy," "Fantasy," "Tease," and "Foot Fetish."
"Unlike other free chat sites, all you have to do is click the Enter button and start chatting immediately," a read a notice on the now-defunct service, with "no registration required and no need to download or install any software."
Instead of allowing people to show each other their private parts, the domain now sends visitors straight to ChatGPT — an unsurprising development, given its new owner.
From OpenAI's point of view, the acquisition does make a certain amount of sense; the company has an abysmal track record when it comes to catchy or memorable branding, so Chat.com is — in theory, at least — a savvy buy.
It's unclear exactly what OpenAI paid for the domain, but it sounds like a lot. In a LinkedIn post, its previous owner Dharmesh Shah, who bought the domain for $15.5 million in 2023, revealed only that he got a lot more than what he had originally purchased it for.
As Shah put it in a tweet responding to Altman's unceremonious announcement, the new owner of the domain is "exactly who you'd think."
The team behind menstrual health and period tracking app Clue has said it will not disclose users' data to American authorities, following Donald Trump's reelection.
The message comes in response to concerns that during Trump's second presidency, abortion bans that followed the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022 will worsen and states will attempt to increase menstrual surveillance in order to further restrict access to terminations.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has blocked a bill in the state that would have banned law enforcement from enforcing search warrants for menstrual data stored in tracking apps on mobile phones or other electronic devices, according to the Houston Chronicle. And other states have passed or attempted to pass bills that would require medical care facilities and providers to report why women received abortions, as well as other personal information.
Newsweek has reached out to Clue, the Trump campaign and Youngkin for comment via email.
In a statement on TikTok, female and male staff members at Clue, based in Berlin, stand together with arms crossed, along with a text on screen that reads: "We have never and will never disclose any member's private health data to any authority. If we are ever subpoenaed, we will not comply."
Clue's video has since gone viral on TikTok and gained 160,000 likes, more than 6,000 bookmarks, and nearly 1,500 comments.
In a statement online yesterday from Clue, CEO Rhiannon White said, "Clue was created to give you the ability to build your own cycle health record and to be able to use it to gain invaluable insights to help give you agency when it comes to your menstrual and reproductive health.
Microsoft is bringing AI capabilities to its simplistic Notepad app, which is known for its plain text functions, such as saving in .txt files.
The new feature, called Rewrite will allow you to generate alternative text to fit your specific needs. You’ll be able to modify the text to be longer, shorter, or to be written in a certain tone or format. The feature will generate three variations for you to select, and you will also have the option to retry if none of the results meet your standards.
Two of the most fascinating topics I’ve covered in this newsletter are AI’s transformative effects in healthcare and how large language models have reignited progress in robotics. Today’s edition brings these together: I’m talking about AI-powered robotic surgery.
I attended a Johns Hopkins University panel where researchers specialized in this area predicted that, in large part thanks to LLMs, autonomy is poised to become “a ubiquitous part of surgery” in the near or at least mid-term future. Similar to how vehicle autonomy began with automating some capabilities, they said autonomous robots will initially take on select tasks that support human surgeons. They also had no doubt we’ll see surgeries routinely performed fully autonomously by robots in our lifetime.
LLMs change the game
After hitting a wall with its previous approach of trying to pre-program robots to make specific movements, the robotics field has found a way forward with the same approach that’s made LLMs so successful. Axel Krieger, a mechanical engineering researcher focused on the development of surgical systems, spoke on the panel about new research he and his associates would be sharing this week about how the Transformer—the same one that powers tools like ChatGPT, only with robot action as the output—can be used to overcome limitations surrounding how a surgical robotic system called Da Vinci learns tasks via imitation learning. The team demonstrated its findings through the successful execution of three fundamental surgical tasks: tissue manipulation, needle handling, and knot-tying.
Overall, robotic surgery research has followed the trends of AI, moving from a “model-based approach” to a “learning-based approach” that enables surgical robots to learn via demonstrations rather than be designed with specific domain expertise. These models also improve over time with more data and can scale to accomplish different kinds of tasks.
The downside of the learning approach, however, is that it’s more opaque and unpredictable than the model approach. Russell Taylor, another researcher on the panel, argued that the introduction of these capabilities into actual clinical use will have to be gradual, with clear assurances that the robot will not harm the patient. He also argued that robots should only be used if they have a clear advantage, either enabling surgeons to perform tasks better and more safely, or making it possible to do something that wasn’t possible before. If these robots are further proven to be more consistent and precise, it could be a game-changer for safety and better surgery outcomes: human surgeons are human after all, which means they get fatigued and make mistakes.
The future of surgery
Already, surgeries like lasik eye surgery are performed with a high degree of autonomy, but research is starting to show promise for even more complicated surgeries. In another study, Krieger and team found that a Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR), which is designed for complex soft tissue surgeries, can actually outperform expert surgeons on some key metrics.
“We have fewer of these hesitancy events when we misplace a needle and have to pull it back out, so significantly better in these errors. And also in the spacing (of the sutures)—much more consistent,” he said.
The goal behind AI-powered robotic surgery is two-fold: make surgery less invasive for patients and meet the growing demand. According to data shared during the panel, there is already a shortage of surgeons and the caseload is expected to double as the aging population grows. Robots could augment critical portions of surgery with better precision and increasing autonomy. Each year, 310 million major surgeries are performed. In 2023, about four million were performed with robotic assistance, and this rate is expected to grow by 18% annually.
This doesn’t mean surgeons will be out of work anytime soon, but their role will likely change.
“The more likely scenario is that the surgeon will remain in overall strategic control while delegating specific tasks to the robot while the surgeon supervises,” said Taylor. “As AI algorithms become more powerful, the delegated tasks will become more sophisticated.”
On Election Day, ChatGPT told 2 million users to go to reliable news sites like Reuters for information. It even blocked 250,000 fake image requests which I have already posted about in this threadcast. What's impressive here is that people are trusting AI to guide them through big events like this.
AI is really starting to change the way we get news.
A painting of Alan Turing, made by an AI robot named Ai-Da, just sold for $1.1 million! Ai-Da, inspired by Ada Lovelace, used its programming to create this portrait, showing how tech is changing art. All I see is Robots making art – and people loving it!
My only opinion is that artists have to start utilizing AI in a smart and strategic way because it's here to stay and undeniably cool.
A new AI startup, CTGT, co-founded by UCSD alum Cyril Gorlla, aims to make AI more accurate and reliable by stopping “AI hallucinations” (when AI gets things wrong). With support from Mark Cuban, CTGT is building tools to improve AI’s clarity, which could help in fields like healthcare.
OpenAI's lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng, is leaving after 7 years. She helped build safety systems for AI but feels it's time for a change. Is Google behind?
ChipMOS Technologies, a leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services, reported a decline in revenue for October 2024, registering NT$1,784.9 million (US$55.8 million). This reflects a month-over-month decrease of 5.5% and a year-over-year drop of 9.4%, aligning with the company’s earlier predictions of fluctuating market demands for DRAM and NAND flash. The company continues to navigate a challenging market environment characterized by conservative ordering and inventory adjustments.
As the market eagerly awaits earnings from artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), investors will be happy to hear that the company's CEO, Jensen Huang, has announced a new partnership with Lenovo that will accelerate sales in a key area: enterprise.
The lion's share of Nvidia's revenue is derived from companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Amazon. The tech giants use its hardware to build gargantuan server farms that run their consumer-facing AI products like Gemini and Meta AI. These companies have poured billions of dollars into Nvidia's coffers and have no plans to stop in the near future. While they are great customers to have, there is always risk in relying on a relatively small customer base. Any one of them could decide to switch to another provider, like AMD, or develop their own chips in-house, as many are reported to be doing. Nvidia would be smart to greatly expand its reach beyond them.
That seems to be the aim of Nvidia's partnership with Lenovo. The two companies are teaming up to create a new platform called "Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with Nvidia," aimed at enterprise clients of all sizes, large and small. It is essentially a custom AI solution tailored to each individual business. If Huang's promise holds true, it will help businesses vastly improve their efficiency and, most importantly, their profitability.
Given that this platform will be comprised of Nvidia products at every level -- from its flagship Blackwell chips to its networking hardware to its custom software -- the platform could be a boon to Nvidia's bottom line if it takes off.
A key component here is what is known as "agentic AI." Up to this point, the generative AI we've seen is great at creating content, analyzing content, and relies heavily on direct human guidance. Agentic AI, on the other hand, can reason in more complex environments, and, critically, it can actually do things. Think of an AI marketing tool that could not only craft a whole marketing plan and the creative materials involved, but also deploy it across the company's media channels. It could continue to monitor the campaign, adjusting it in real time to be more effective.
The platform Nvidia and Lenovo are launching will focus on providing this sort of agentic AI. The possibilities for increased efficiency and cost-cutting are pretty profound, making it an extremely valuable product and a real potential moneymaker for Nvidia.
The product's success will be directly tied to agentic AI being able to deliver the value it promises to. If it does, this could be a massive new chapter in the AI story.
Nvidia's new partnership with Lenovo could change how businesses use AI. If it works, this could be huge for both companies. Now most companies are trying to adopt AI in some way even Meta with WhatsApp and it's other platforms
The Beatles’ “Now and Then” was finally finished with some AI help. This old demo by John Lennon was too messy to fix back then. But with new tech, they cleaned it up, and now it’s up for Grammys in 2025! Competing with big names like Beyoncé? Kind of surreal.
As TikTok stares down an impending federal ban, Donald Trump's win in the presidential election could be a lifeline. It's a plot twist for the embattled,
As TikTok stares down an impending federal ban, Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election could be a lifeline.
It’s a plot twist for the embattled, Chinese-owned social media company. During Trump’s last presidency, the president-elect had been the one to initiate the calls to ban TikTok, which only petered out because he didn’t win his first attempt at re-election in 2020. But during his 2024 campaign, Trump took a different approach. He wrote in all-caps on his platform Truth Social, “FOR ALL OF THOSE THAT WANT TO SAVE TIK TOK IN AMERICA, VOTE TRUMP!”
President Biden signed off on a bill in April that gives ByteDance, the Chinese parent company to TikTok, nine months to sell the platform. If ByteDance fails to complete a sale — which is a likely outcome — it will be banned on January 19, 2025, the day before Trump’s inauguration. However, ByteDance has the option of pursuing a 90-day extension, which would put the ball in Trump’s court.
Trump’s reasoning for his support of a TikTok ban in 2020 echoes the current bipartisan sentiment among legislators who pushed for this legislation. At the time, Trump raised concerns about the Chinese Communist Party potentially gaining access to Americans’ data (while there has not been public evidence of the CCP accessing American TikTok users’ data, there has been proof that ByteDance accessed TikTok user data). Now, the president-elect appears more concerned with how a TikTok ban would benefit Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.
Skywater Technology Inc ( (SKYT) ) has released its Q3 earnings. Here is a breakdown of the information Skywater Technology Inc presented to its investors.
SkyWater Technology Inc., a U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturer, specializes in technology realization services, serving diverse markets including aerospace, defense, and biomedical sectors.
In its third quarter of 2024, SkyWater Technology reported record revenues of $93.8 million, marking a 31% year-over-year increase, alongside improved gross margins and a notable shift to profitability.
Key highlights from the report include a significant 847% increase in tools revenue, contributing to the overall revenue surge. The company’s operational efficiencies and strategic execution on a major aerospace and defense program boosted gross margins to 21.6% on a GAAP basis. Additionally, the company reported a GAAP net income of $1.5 million, reversing a loss from the previous year, with an adjusted EBITDA of $11.0 million, up 33% year-over-year.
SkyWater continues to expand its capabilities through customer-funded capital expenditures and strategic partnerships, as demonstrated by a new supply agreement with NanoDx and involvement in the Microelectronics Commons projects under the CHIPS Act.
Looking forward, SkyWater Technology anticipates sequential growth in its Advanced Technology Services business in Q4 2024, with a positive outlook for 2025, including expected growth in wafer services and continued margin improvements.
Monarch Tractor has laid off around 10% of its workforce as part of a restructuring that will see it prioritize non-agricultural customers, license its autonomous technology, and boost sales of its AI-powered farm management software, TechCrunch has learned.
Around 35 employees were cut this week by the Livermore, California-based autonomous electric tractor startup that has raised a total of $220 million since it was founded in 2018. Some Monarch workers told TechCrunch they were let go without severance. It’s the second cut this year; Monarch previously laid off around 15% of its workforce in July.
CEO Praveen Penmetsa told TechCrunch in an interview the company decided to restructure after a slower-than-expected third quarter, and despite raising $133 million in July from the likes of Foxconn and agri-food tech impact firm Astanor. Penmetsa said he was uncertain if employees were let go without severance, but that the company has been trying to help out laid-off workers on a case-by-case basis.
“All of this happened pretty quickly,” Penmetsa said, referring to the recent crash of California’s vineyards, which made up a bulk of Monarch’s early customers. That development, plus an ongoing pullback in agri-tech investing, left Penmetsa and his team looking at other options.
“The industry has slowed down on acquisition of new equipment and new solutions, especially in the core farming sectors,” Penmetsa said. “But in the meantime, as a platform company, we also have some very exciting non-agriculture opportunities that started sprouting because of our success in ag.”
What Happened: According to a new note from Geoffrey Kendrick, Head of Research at Standard Chartered, this growth forecast is based on anticipated regulatory shifts following a projected Republican sweep in the recent election cycle, which could lead to mainstream adoption and real-world use cases for digital assets.
“For me, the Trump-ublican sweep means Digital Assets are finally going to come of age,” Kendrick commented, expressing confidence that favorable regulatory policies will drive adoption across the asset class. He added, "I look for the entire asset class to 4X by the time of the US mid-terms in late 2026."
Standard Chartered highlight several factors contributing to this growth projection.
“Although the founders and team still believe in the need/desire for quiet supersonic flight and supersonic drones for the US Department of Defense, without further customer support for either concept, the company cannot sustain the cash needs to make further advancements,” the update says.
Exosonic was founded in 2019 by Norris Tie, a propulsion engineer who cut his teeth at primes like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin; at the latter company, he reportedly worked on the low-boom X-59 aircraft for NASA. Exosonic joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 cohort and went on to raise over $4.5 million from venture investors, including Soma Capital, Psion Capital, and Stellar Solutions. The startup also bagged several small grants from the U.S. Air Force under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
The company was making progress: It hit a major milestone earlier this year when it flew its first aircraft, a subscale variant of its supersonic UAV called EX-3M Trident, in a test flight in California. It also had two other vehicles under development: a supersonic airliner called Horizon and a larger UAV called Revenant.
Broadcom (AVGO, Financial) has emerged as one of today's leading players in artificial intelligence, recently unveiling new AI developments that prompted analysts to revise their stock price forecasts to $199.8. This change in analyst sentiment followed CEO Hock Tan's discourse at the Digital X special event in Cologne, Germany, where he outlined Broadcom's strategy of tapping into AI inference solutions.
AI technology is expected to create massive advances in the sector in the area of AI inference, the capability of AI systems to make a prediction or draw some conclusion without specific outcomes previously determined to be achievable. For instance, this inference lets self-driving cars detect stop signs, which infers the real-world use of AI inference in self-driving automobiles, even though the automobiles have not been through specific routes before.
As a result, financial analysts have set higher stock price targets for Broadcom to demonstrate higher investor confidence in the company, particularly due to its new AI business venture. Furthermore, Broadcom is developing a new AI chip in partnership with OpenAI to enhance the deployment efficiency of AI models after training, which has put Broadcom in the radical vanguard of AI.
However, there are concerns with this growth, such as data sovereignty and another concern about the readiness of the world for semiconductors, where Taiwan alone accounts for 60% of the world's semiconductors and 90% of the advanced ones. These issues express the geopolitical and logistical risks associated with the semiconductor supply chain, something inherently important for Broadcom's growing AI endeavors.
The warning is a rare admission from the FBI about the threat from fake emergency data requests submitted by hackers with access to police email accounts.
The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to submit “emergency” data requests.
The FBI’s public notice filed this week is a rare admission from the federal government about the threat from fraudulent emergency data requests, a legal process designed to help police and federal authorities obtain information from companies to respond to immediate threats affecting someone’s life or property. The abuse of emergency data requests is not new, and has been widely reported in recent years. Now, the FBI warns that it saw an “uptick” around August in criminal posts online advertising access to or conducting fraudulent emergency data requests, and that it was going public for awareness.
“Cyber-criminals are likely gaining access to compromised US and foreign government email addresses and using them to conduct fraudulent emergency data requests to US based companies, exposing the personal information of customers to further use for criminal purposes,” reads the FBI’s advisory.
Police and law enforcement in the U.S. generally need some kind of legal justification to seek and obtain access to private data that companies store on their servers. Typically for a person’s private content, like their files, emails, or messages, police need to provide enough evidence of a possible crime before a U.S. court will issue a search warrant allowing the police to request that information from a private company. Police can issue subpoenas — which don’t require going to a court — requesting companies to access limited amounts of information about a user, such as their basic account information, like their username, account logins, email addresses, and phone numbers, and sometimes their approximate location.
There are also emergency requests, a procedure in which law enforcement can urgently seek a person’s information from a company in the event of an immediate risk, where there is no time to seek a court order.
It’s these emergency requests that federal authorities say some cybercriminals are abusing.
Amazon employees protested the "return to office" policy and urged management to maintain remote work flexibility.
"Go Work For Another Company": Amazon Group Firm CEO To Employees Protesting End Of WFH523 Amazon employees protested the "return to office" policy and urged management to maintain remote work flexibility.
Over 500 Amazon Web Services (AWS) employees have petitioned the company to reconsider its new five-day in-office mandate, which is set to begin in January. In a letter to AWS CEO Matt Garman, 523 employees voiced opposition to the "return to office" policy and urged management to maintain remote work flexibility.
"AWS is not realizing its full potential with this mandate, and it is setting a discouraging path forward," the letter shared with The Seattle Times stated. "While flexible and remote work does have its challenges, AWS has always been a company that tackles problems in innovative, forward-thinking ways, rather than falling back on outdated solutions that worked in the past. The cloud computing industry might not exist today if we had held onto such restrictive thinking in our early days."
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy previously announced in a memo that the policy would begin on January 2, 2025. Prior to this change, Amazon required employees to be in the office three days a week, a shift that sparked protests as well. About 15 months after that initial mandate, Amazon is now expanding the requirement to restore pre-pandemic work norms.
The recent letter from AWS employees responds to Garman's comments at an AWS town hall, where he suggested employees who don't wish to comply with the new five-day rule could explore other job options. Last week, Garman reiterated this stance in an interview, expressing confidence in the policy and stating that most employees he spoke to are supportive of the change. Garman and Jassy have acknowledged that while there may be flexibility under the new policy, such as managers occasionally working from home for specific tasks, the core requirement remains in place.
AWS employees argued in the letter that Garman's comments do not align with their own experiences, claiming, "You are silencing critical perspectives and harming our culture and future." They also contended that Amazon's decision lacked data-backed analysis, contradicting one of Amazon's key principles, and noted that the policy might hinder Amazon's goal of becoming "Earth's best employer."
The mandate is expected to particularly affect employees who depend on remote work flexibility, such as those with disabilities, caregiving duties, or visa restrictions. The employees also suggested that the mandate may drive senior staff members who often have the credentials and financial flexibility to seek other roles away from Amazon, potentially impacting the collaborative culture the company aims to foster.
The new policy will make Amazon one of the few major tech companies in Seattle with such a stringent in-office requirement. Starbucks recently implemented a similar approach, requiring corporate employees to work from the office three days a week starting in January, with non-compliance leading to potential job changes.
n their letter, AWS employees reiterated their desire for Amazon to reconsider its stance, emphasizing, "Remote and flexible work represents an opportunity for Amazon to lead, not a threat. We want to work for leaders who see this moment as a chance to reinvent how we work."
Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said at an all-hands meeting on Tuesday that the plan to require employees to be in-office five days per week is not meant to force attrition or satisfy city leaders, as many employees have suggested, Reuters reported.
"A number of people I've seen theorized that the reason we were doing this is, it's a backdoor layoff, or we made some sort of deal with city or cities," said Jassy, according to a transcript of the
"I can tell you both of those are not true. You know, this was not a cost play for us. This is very much about our culture and strengthening our culture," he said.
The Ethereum Foundation just shared they’ve got around $970 million in their treasury, mostly in Ethereum (ETH). They’re careful with it, saving for tough times by selling some ETH when prices are high. They've also set stricter rules for employees to avoid conflicts of interest. Feels like they’re trying to keep things clear and steady.
Trump owns nearly 115 million shares and has about a 53% stake in the Truth Social parent.
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group jumped on Friday after President-elect Donald Trump said he had no intention of selling his shares in the company, which owns his Truth Social media platform.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump rejected what he described as rumors that he was planning to sell shares a day after the stock slumped.
“There are fake, untrue, and probably illegal rumors and/or statements made by, perhaps, market manipulators or short sellers, that I am interested in selling shares of Truth,” Trump wrote.
The stock was briefly halted for volatility after Trump’s comments.
On Thursday, shares of the company slumped as speculative bets on Trump winning a second four-year term lost steam a day after his victory over Democrat Kamala Harris.
The stock rose 5.9% on Wednesday following Election Day on Tuesday.
The parent company of Donald Trump’s social networking site Truth Social lost $19.2 million in the last quarter, according to an earnings report released on the same day he won back the presidency.
Trump Media and Technology Group reported late Tuesday that much of that loss stemmed from more than $12 million in legal fees, along with a decline in revenue, according to the surprise Election Day earnings report. Its stock price surged Wednesday but that was more likely due to Trump’s defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris to retake the presidency than on its profit prospects.
Trump created the company after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Based in Sarasota, Florida, it has been losing money and struggling to raise revenue.
Revenue for the three-month period that ended on September 30 was just over $1 million, down nearly 6% from a year earlier. Trump Media, based in Sarasota, Florida, has lost more than $363 million so far this year.
Trump Media said some of its costs related to the launch of its new TV streaming service called Truth+.
CEO and former Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes said in a statement the company “continues to explore additional possibilities for growth” such as mergers with other companies that “would benefit from Trump Media technology and branding.”
The company said in a regulatory finding that its success depends in part on “the reputation and popularity of President Donald J. Trump.”
Zuckerberg Not Liable in Youth Mental Health Lawsuits
A federal judge said Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not personally liable in 25 lawsuits accusing his company of addicting children to social media.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California rejected accusations Thursday that Zuckerberg directed Meta's efforts to conceal from children the serious mental health risks of using Facebook and Instagram.
The plaintiffs called Meta's billionaire co-founder the "guiding spirit" behind alleged concealment efforts, saying he ignored repeated internal warnings about the risks and publicly downplayed them.
But the judge found a lack of specifics about what Zuckerberg did wrong, and said "control of corporate activity alone is insufficient" to establish liability. Her decision does not affect related claims against Meta itself.
The plaintiffs brought claims under the laws of 13 U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Previn Warren, a partner at Motley Rice representing the plaintiffs, said on Friday his clients will continue gathering evidence "to uncover the truth about how Big Tech has knowingly prioritized profits over the safety of our children."
The 25 lawsuits are among several hundred by children, their families and school districts seeking damages from Meta, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok and Snap's Snapchat over social media addiction.
Dozens of U.S. state attorneys general are pursuing similar cases against Meta, linking its social media platforms to anxiety, depression, insomnia, and interference with education and daily life.
The case is In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 22-md-03047.
Musk was worth $302 billion as of Friday, according to Forbes, which calculated his fortune by factoring in his stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
Elon Musk’s backing of President-elect Donald Trump has paid off handsomely as his net worth surged past the $300 billion mark on Friday — much of it due to Tesla’s market capitalization surpassing $1 trillion.
Musk, who donated nearly $120 million to a pro-Trump super PAC, was worth $304 billion as of Friday, according to Forbes, which calculated his fortune by factoring in his 20% stake in Tesla as well as his estimated 42% equity in SpaceX.
In November 2020, around 75% of Musk’s wealth was derived from his stake in Tesla.
“Tesla and CEO Elon Musk are perhaps the biggest winners from the election result, and we believe Trump’s victory will help expedite regulatory approval of the company’s autonomous driving technology,” said Garrett Nelson, senior equity analyst at CFRA Research.
Under a Trump administration, Musk could push for favorable regulation of autonomous vehicles that Tesla plans and also get the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to hold off on potential enforcement actions involving the safety of Tesla’s current driver-assistance systems, a source told Reuters.
Musk is also the majority owner of xAI, the artificial intelligence startup that he founded last year. Musk’s stake in the company, which is in talks on a new funding round that could value the firm at as much as $40 billion, is 60%, according to Forbes.
Musk has crossed the $300 billion threshold before. In November 2021, Tesla’s stock reach an all-time high of $407 per share. But the company’s stock plummeted by as much as 72% — falling to $113.06 a share in January of last year.
On Friday, Tesla’s stock closed at $321.22 a share — up 8.2%.
Huang said he sees AI employees taking on all kinds of roles, including in areas like marketing, chip design, and supply chain.
He believes the AI workers will be prompted the same way as human employees are today, such as by asking them to perform a mission, providing them with context, and engaging in back-and-forth conversations.
Huang is referring to a concept he's mentioned before. At a fireside chat with Wired in July, Huang talked about the concept of "digital agents" that would "augment every single job in the company."
A few weeks ago, Huang shared more on the idea in an episode of the "BG2" podcast. He talked about a future in which AIs will recruit other AIs to solve problems while existing in Slack channels with themselves and other humans.
The Nvidia CEO said that while this will change some jobs, it will also help secure employment. Huang said companies that use AI to become more productive will likely see better earnings or growth — and that's unlikely to lead to layoffs.
While some people might think SAAS platforms would be interrupted, Huang said in his recent podcast appearance that he thinks they're "sitting on a gold mine" of "flourishing agents" that specialize in various areas, collaborate with each other, and get rented out by other companies.
Huang said Nvidia would create an AI agent for Open USD and "totally imagines" chip design company Synopsys with rentable chip designers.
"I might rent a million Synopsis engineers to come and help me out and then go rent a million Cadence engineers to help me out," Huang said.
Other CEOs have painted a similar picture of AI employees joining the workforce.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan recently used the term "digital twins" to describe AI clones that attend meetings and write emails for employees so that they can do other things, like "go to the beach." Yuan said it could reduce the workweek to three or four days.
Such a future may seem far away, yet Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company's most recent earnings call that AI is already generating 25% of the company's code, which engineers then review and accept.
And while Huang argues the benefits to a company's business from AI workers would stave off layoffs, it's worth noting that cuts could still occur as companies make adjustments as the technology evolves.
Klarna's CEO received backlash in May after posting on social media that AI let his marketing team, which is "half the size it was last year," save $10 million while accomplishing more work.
Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday which one of them was sick.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday which one of them was sick.
Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps publicly discussed their spaceflight for the first time since returning from the International Space Station on Oct. 25. They spent nearly eight months in orbit, longer than expected because of all the trouble with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule and rough weather, including Hurricane Milton.
Soon after their SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast, the three were taken to a hospital in nearby Pensacola along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who launched with them back in March.
One of the Americans ended up spending the night there for an undisclosed “medical issue.” NASA declined to say who was hospitalized or why, citing medical privacy.
When asked at Friday’s news conference which one had been sick, the astronauts refused to comment. Barratt, a doctor who specializes in space medicine, declined to even describe the symptoms that the unidentified astronaut had.
“Spaceflight is still something we don’t fully understand. We’re finding things that we don’t expect sometimes. This was one of those times and we’re still piecing things together on this,” said Barratt, the only member of the crew who had flown in space before.
Sony's profit rose 69% in July-September from a year earlier on the back of strong sales of its image sensors, games, music and network services,
TOKYO — Sony’s profit rose 69% in July-September from a year earlier on the back of strong sales of its image sensors, games, music and network services, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said on Friday.
Quarterly profit was 338.5 billion yen ($2.2 billion), up from 200 billion yen in the year-earlier period, while consolidated quarterly sales edged up 3% year-on-year to 2.9 trillion yen ($19 billion).
Tokyo-based Sony’s latest quarterly results were boosted by healthy demand around the world for image sensors used in mobile products.
Sales also held up in its video games division. During the latest quarter, 3.8 million PlayStation 5 game consoles were sold globally, compared with 4.9 million units sold the same period a year ago.
Demand remained strong for PS5 game software, according to Sony.
The top-selling music releases from Sony for the quarter included “SOS” by SZA, David Gilmore’s “Luck and Strange” and Kenshi Yonezu’s “Lost Corner.”
One area where Sony’s business suffered was its pictures division, including TV shows and movies, which was impacted by production delays caused by the strikes in Hollywood.
Among the recent hit films from Sony was “It Ends With Us,” a romantic drama based on a novel.
Sony, which also makes digital cameras and TVs, maintained its 980-billion yen ($6.4 billion) profit forecast for the fiscal year through March 2025, up 1% from the previous fiscal year.
The campaign ended up being a huge success, with a 8.8% in lift in awareness and a 6% lift in intent across TikTok. Meta drove a 34 point lift in ad recall (236% higher than the Entertainment benchmark), 15.6 awareness and a 9.2 point lift in intent.
The LiveRamp study concluded a 15% incremental lift in box office sales via ticket bookings, largely driven by a 9.3% increase in average spend per customer – showcasing TikTok users were more likely to buy premium seats or go at peak times.
‘The team at MGOMD are always looking to evolve our approach to social media investment ensuring we are driving the most value from the creative and different opportunities with each partner. The campaign for Napoleon allowed us to exploit beta testing new products while combining new measurement opportunities with key media partners, which not only provided excellent campaign results, but also learnings that we are able to take forward into our other campaigns. MGOMD have given us a benchmark for success to measure our campaigns against moving forward," Joshua Heaton-Armstrong, head of digital at Sony Pictures Releasing UK
This social campaign for Sony's Napoleon movie outperformed all expectations
Napoleon was the Tentpole release at the end of 2023, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. Our approach to the social campaign was to drive high impact at scale. We focused on Meta and TikTok for this campaign, utilising Meta’s Target Frequency Beta, and a Multi-cell BLS on TikTok to measure the effectiveness of creator content vs more traditional creative. This was a studio first in the UK, becoming the first to include a Creative Breakout for Sales Lift, as well as including a Movio Study alongside this, allowing us to attribute ticket sales back to different types of creatives, from awareness through to intent.
Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the studio behind its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline last month after a disastrous launch. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation studio business group, says Firewalk Studios will close alongside Neon Koi, a mobile game studio.
“We have spent considerable time these past few months exploring all our options,” says Hulst. “After much thought, we have determined the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio. I want to thank all of Firewalk for their craftsmanship, creative spirit and dedication.”
Hulst says Concord didn’t hit Sony’s targets and that the PlayStation maker will “take the lessons learned from Concord and continue to advance our live service capabilities to deliver future growth in this area.”
Concord debuted on August 23rd on both PS5 and PC, but Sony took the game offline on September 6th after poor sales of the game. Estimates have put sales at under 25,000, and Concord only managed to hit an all-time peak of just 697 players on Steam, lower than the launch peak of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
Sony’s Neon Koi mobile game development studio is also shutting down, despite Hulst saying “mobile remains a priority growth area.” Sony originally acquired the German-Finnish studio when it was known as Savage Game Studios in 2022, and the team was working on an unannounced triple-A mobile live service action game.
“With this re-focused approach, Neon Koi will close, and its mobile action game will not be moving forward,” says Hulst. “Both decisions were given serious thought, and ultimately, we feel they are the right ones to strengthen the organization.”
Some of the impacted developers may find roles within Sony’s other studios, but the rest will join the thousands in the game industry that have been laid off over the past couple of years.
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that the toughest part about building the company’s Optimus humanoid robot is improving its design to ease manufacturing and readying a complex supply chain for mass production.
What Happened: “The toughest part by far is improving the design of Optimus for ease of manufacturing and tooling up a complex supply chain, so it can be made in significant numbers,” Musk wrote in a post on social media platform X. The CEO was responding computer programmer John Carmack who expressed doubts regarding the near term utility of humanoid robots.
“Long term, driven be AGI, sure, they are going to be an enormous economic engine, but business plans that have them making a dent in the next five years seem unlikely,” Carmack said.
Why It Matters: During Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting in June, Musk said that there will be at least one humanoid robot for every person in the world in the future, implying a total humanoid robot population of at least 10 billion or more, of which the EV company will have a significant share.
"While autonomous vehicle is a $5-$7 trillion market cap situation, Optimus is a $25 trillion market cap situation," Musk then said.
Musk expects to be able to sell Optimus at $10,000 or $20,000, at a lower price point than Tesla's cheapest Model 3 sedan, once it reaches high-volume production.
In July, the CEO also said that the EV company would have “genuinely useful” humanoid robots in low production for use within its factories next year. The company will “hopefully” increase production for other customers in 2026, he said.
Last month, the company showcased its Optimus bots at its robotaxi unveiling event in Los Angeles.
About 20 active robots walked through the crowd assembled at the event. Optimus poured drinks, handed out snacks, and performed dance moves. However, the robots were human-assisted to "some extent” to showcase the company’s vision at the event, Head of Engineering For Optimus Milan Kovac said in a post on X.
When a robot says it loves Daft Punk, you know the future has arrived.
EDM.com has discovered a TikTok video in which Tesla's Optimus bot surprised a group of inquisitive attendees at the company's recent "We Robot" event with its top music pick: Daft Punk. Speaking with the group, the bot also said "EDM" is its favorite genre before referring to the legendary duo by name.
The interaction added a dash of pop culture flair to the high-tech event, where fans had the rare opportunity to interact with Tesla's unreleased technology. The humanoid bot's casual nod to Daft Punk delighted attendees, especially since CEO Elon Musk has championed EDM culture in the past.
Tesla's affinity for the genre isn't new, but this latest news out of "We Robot" adds a new twist. Musk has hosted massive EDM-inspired events in the past, such as the "Cyber Rodeo" at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory and rave-fueled "Giga Fest" in Berlin, where techno became an integral part of the celebration. He has also flirted with part-time music production, releasing his song "Don't Doubt ur Vibe" back in 2020.
Tesla's affinity for the genre isn't new, but this latest news out of "We Robot" adds a new twist. Musk has hosted massive EDM-inspired events in the past, such as the "Cyber Rodeo" at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory and rave-fueled "Giga Fest" in Berlin, where techno became an integral part of the celebration. He has also flirted with part-time music production, releasing his song "Don't Doubt ur Vibe" back in 2020.
The "We Robot" event, held at Warner Bros. Discovery studio, was already drawing attention for showcasing Tesla's latest advancements in robotics and autonomous vehicles. However, the Optimus bots stole the show by roaming around the crowd, dancing and even conversing with fans in varying accents.
Their introduction hints at Tesla's vision for consumer-ready bots, with Musk predicting a future where these high-tech companions could be within reach for roughly $30,000.
Musk in June 2024 claimed that Optimus could enter limited production in 2025. He reportedly expects the bots to be available for households by 2027.
The popular video shows the Optimus Robot watering plants, tidying up, carrying in groceries, even playing games with the family
Tesla chose this newly renovated Mediterranean-style home in Los Angeles’s Mandeville Canyon neighborhood as the backdrop for the debut of its new Optimus Robot, the first time its humanoid robot has been featured inside a home.
“Tesla chose our property because they liked the aesthetics and it worked well with what they were looking to showcase,” said listing agent Jason Peteler, of Revel Real Estate. “They rented it out for two days to do the shoot.”
Tucked behind 10-foot gates, the 1979 house on Mandeville Canyon Road has been completely renovated and reimagined by developer Ori Ayonmike, founder of Wilshire Partners, Peteler said. Architectural details include clean lines, several glass and black steel doors that invite indoor-outdoor living, arched doorways, lots of natural stone and wood accents and curated wide-plank white oak floors.
“It’s a blend of Spanish and a blend of modern and in its own little sanctuary in Brentwood,” he said. “It was a complete ground-up renovation. The prior house had never been touched.”
Since the video of Tesla Optimus interacting with the home and performing everyday household tasks—removing groceries from the car, watering plants, playing games with the family and bringing in packages—debuted last month, it has generated 10.7 million views on X and 2 million views on YouTube.
“The robot can do anything, from household chores to making drinks and cleaning up your home,” he said.
Ayonmike, the owner-developer, found the property about 18 months ago, Peteler said. “He specializes in rehabbing properties and staying true to the neighborhood and giving the property a true revival.”
He has done five properties in the Los Angeles area in the last eight years, including his own home, Peteler said.
The Optimus robot may walk, but only in Jesus can we follow the narrow road to our true home.
Tesla has released the prototype of Optimus (also known as the Tesla Bot). According to its website, this robot is “a general purpose, bi-pedal, autonomous humanoid robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.”
Taking in the mail, doing the dishes, folding laundry and countless other tasks will now be able to be completed for you. Other promotional videos and material have referred to Optimus as a “friend” as well as a robotic task-completer.
“It will basically do anything you want,” said Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “It can be a teacher. It can babysit your kids, walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, and serve drinks. Whatever you can think of, it will do and it’s going to be awesome,” he continued.
This “friend” will cost you $20,000 to $30,000 and be made available in the next few years. Its recent launch party has brought much feedback on social media. Many people are amazed by what the robot can do and are interested in purchasing it. Like many of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, the pitch is that you don’t have to waste your time doing things that you don’t want to do anymore.
It seems that each month there are new technological developments that are making the virtual reality of movies more and more real. It does seem that technology has no borders and that the advances will be never-ending. The “humanoid” of Tesla, as it has been called, is an opportunity to reflect on what these advancements mean for the human person, along with the question: What does it mean to be human?
Technology is not evil in and of itself, but there are clear cautions that we must take so that we preserve human dignity and remember the truth about human nature. A perfect place to start is with Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Dilexit Nos (“He Loves Us: On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ”). It is a profound witness to the centrality of the Person of Jesus Christ in the life of each Christian and it also provides relevant content for the discussion of recent technology like Optimus.
Pope Francis comments on the context of our time by noting, “We find ourselves immersed in societies of serial consumers who live from day to day, dominated by the hectic pace and bombarded by technology, lacking in the patience needed to engage in the processes that an interior life by its very nature requires.”
The rapid nature of the growth of technology is an objective fact. It is an opportunity to be humble regarding what we can understand but also an opportunity to proudly proclaim that we are not measured by what we can accomplish efficiently. Our worth comes from our identity as sons and daughters of the Father. No machine or technology has that identity.
While there are tasks that technology can aid us with, small tasks often purify the human heart and bind us with others. The sacrifice that parents make to do the little things around the house out of love for their children is something that can’t be measured. The laundry, the dishes and packing lunches are small ways that parents show that they will choose acting for their children over their own comfort and wants. Their sacrificial love motivates the movement of their hearts.
In this age of artificial intelligence, we cannot forget that poetry and love are necessary to save our humanity. No algorithm will ever be able to capture, for example, the nostalgia that all of us feel, whatever our age, and wherever we live, when we recall how we first used a fork to seal the edges of the pies that we helped our mothers or grandmothers to make at home.
He goes on to give several examples of such memories that captivate our souls. These experiences deeply define the human heart and showcase the need to cling to our humanity rather than technology. No advancement can replace the moment when a man proposes to his girlfriend or a woman gives birth to her daughter. No technology can take the place of the raw emotion involved in losing a loved one or experiencing the pain of watching a family member suffer.
“All of these,” Francis writes, “live on as precious memories kept deep in our heart.” It is the heart that must be re-captured in our times because the true friend that we all need is not a robot, but Jesus Christ. He is the one who reveals the true meaning of the human heart to each one of us. He shows us the value of doing the little things with great love. He is the one who shows that we are worth God’s very life — that is the heart of the matter.
Oscar Vargas, the virtual artist better known as "wb.artist20" on social media, continues to dream of automotive stuff that probably can't be made in the garage
Tesla recently held a massive event called 'We, Robot' on October 10, 2024, at Warner Bros. Studios Burbank in California, where it had the upcoming two-passenger battery-electric self-driving car known previously as Robotaxi and officially as Cybercab, with no steering wheel or pedals, driving folks around all night. They also introduced a single Cybervan that could reportedly haul around 20 passengers – as opposed to 20 Cybercabs that were autonomously running around the lot.
However, those weren't the only highlights of the premiere – which many called disappointing because of the limitations brought by a two-passenger car with butterfly doors and no charge port because it relies solely on inductive charging. The reasons for the lukewarm reception were many – when is the Cybercab coming, and will it be allowed on the street without human controls? Why no charge port when inductive charging isn't widespread, or why is the robot van looking like a toaster were among the many queries.
Additionally, at the event, there were also a host of Optimus Tesla bots acting as hosts, with the general-purpose robotic humanoid under development at the company's R&D facilities named after the Transformers character of the same name and currently in its second generation. The latter was considered by Tesla to be developed enough to handle public duties at the event, but detractors again pointed out that they really 'can't do everything' and needed teleoperation and/or AI enhancements for the interactive demonstrations.
Well, on the principle of making fun of the fact that they really can't do everything, even the parallel universes of vehicular CGI have come up with an idea for Tesla Optimus bot use. More precisely, courtesy of a member of the imaginative guild of digital car content creators, the humanoid robots were put to good work by Oscar Vargas, the virtual artist better known as wb.artist20 on social media, who asked them to install a big-block V8 engine inside a Tesla Cybertruck!
side from the hilarious idea of using them as mechanics to morph an EV pickup truck into a high-powered big-block V8 machine, the Tesla Cybertruck isn't stock, either. Instead, it features loads of aerodynamic enhancements pointed out by the black elements on the white body, a lowered stance, a widebody kit, big Y-spoke aftermarket wheels and red brake calipers, plus louvers on top of the bed, a humongous wing and massive diffuser along with quad exhaust tips around the back. So, what do you think – is it a yay or a nay?
By 2040, there will be at least 10 billion humanoid robots priced between $20,000 and $25,000, Elon Musk said at the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, which began Tuesday in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh.
The Optimus robot is the humanoid robot under development by Tesla and could multiply the company’s valuation, according to Musk, who joined the conference via videolink.
Musk also spoke about population decline, the need for “maximally truth seeking” artificial intelligence, and timing for sending space ships to Mars.
He said he believed instead some AIs were being trained to be politically correct, with some being built with a “woke, nihilistic, in my opinion, philosophy.”
First art piece painted by humanoid robot — which was expected to fetch up to $180,000 — shocked the crowd when it sold for a whopping $1.08 million.
Sold!
The first art piece painted by humanoid robot — which was expected to fetch up to $180,000 — shocked the crowd when it sold for a whopping $1.08 million.
“Today’s record-breaking sale price for the first artwork by a humanoid robot artist to go up for auction marks a moment in the history of modern and contemporary art and reflects the growing intersection between AI technology and the global art market,” the auction house said in a statement.
The robot, known as Ai-Da, created the painting of renowned mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing entitled “AI God” with its own hydraulically powered hands.
The robot added that a “portrait of pioneer Alan Turing invites viewers to reflect on the God-like nature of AI and computing while considering the ethical and societal implications of these advancements.”
Turing raised concerns about the use of AI as far back as the 1950s.
The entirely synthetic material is both transparent and highly conductive, making it ideal for high-power electronics.
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has developed a next-generation transparent and efficient semiconductor material. This breakthrough could have enormous ramifications for improving the efficiency of high-power electronics, especially those that need transparency, like lasers.
The material is entirely manmade, allowing electrons to travel faster while remaining transparent to visible and ultraviolet light.
This new material is already breaking records and is seen as a huge leap forward in semiconductor design.
Semiconductors are a growing, potentially trillion-dollar industry that will only become more important as digital technology develops worldwide. Semiconductors are essential components in nearly all electronic devices, from smartphones to medical equipment.
A crucial area of advancement in these technologies involves enhancing what scientists call “ultra-wide band gap” materials. These materials can conduct electricity efficiently, even in extreme conditions.
A huge breakthrough
Ultra-wideband gap semiconductors support high performance at elevated temperatures, making them vital for creating more durable and robust electronic devices.
In their paper published in Science Advances, the researchers focused on developing a new class of materials with an increased “band gap,” which improves both transparency and conductivity.
This significant advancement supports the creation of faster and more efficient devices, potentially leading to breakthroughs in computers, smartphones, and even quantum computing.
The new material is a transparent conducting oxide with a specialized thin-layered structure that enhances transparency while maintaining conductivity. This is important because most materials that conduct electricity well are opaque, while those that are transparent typically do not conduct electricity efficiently.
Achieving both properties in a single material is rare and can lead to innovative applications in devices requiring both optical clarity and electronic performance. As technology and artificial intelligence (AI) applications demand increasingly capable materials, this groundbreaking development presents a promising solution.
“This breakthrough is a game-changer for transparent conducting materials, enabling us to overcome limitations that have held back deep ultra-violet device performance for years,” said Bharat Jalan, Shell Chair and Professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
Spot On Chain reveals El Salvador’s well-timed Bitcoin purchases, yielding an impressive 81% gain after BTC rebounded from a four-year low.
Crypto trader notes that Bitcoin is now in price discovery, recommending holding as long as the trend stays favorable.
El Salvador, the first nation state to adopt Bitcoin BTC/USD as a means of payment, is up 81% on its investments, according to on-chain analysis.
What Happened: Spotonchain data shows El Salvador's strategic Bitcoin investments, led by president Nayib Bukele, have reaped gains of $24.54 million. Starting Nov. 18, 2022, the country purchased one bitcoin daily at an average price below $42,000.
El Salvador's embrace of Bitcoin, recognized as legal tender since 2021, has positioned it as a leader in crypto adoption. Bukele's initiatives included a proposal for a national Bitcoin bank just two weeks into his second term.
His ambitious "Bitcoin City" project, has attracted major investments like Yilport Holding's $1.6 billion in the country's seaports. This marks largest private investment in the nation’s history.
Bitcoin influencer Max Keiser commended El Salvador for its Bitcoin strategy, saying the “American dream is alive” in the country. However, the country’s ‘passports for Bitcoin‘ initiative has not seen any interest yet and president Bukele admitted that Bitcoin uptake has not been a resounding success.
Chinese EV maker Xpeng's Chairman He Xiaopeng revealed details about the Land Aircraft Carrier, which has two parts, can be easily operated, and will go on sale soon.
Chinese EV maker Xpeng Inc.’s XPEV Chairman He Xiaopeng on Wednesday provided details on its modular flying car called Land Aircraft Carrier, including its sales timeline and driving ease.
What Happened: The Land Aircraft Carrier has two parts – a ground module and an air module, with the ground module housing the aerial component for ground transportation. The two parts can automatically separate and combine.
The air module is small and capable of seating two. The vehicle is aimed at resolving the issue of landing space, by enabling the user to land it and fold it within the ground module trunk.
The vehicle, He Xiaopeng said at the company’s AI Day event on Wednesday, has already been given the certificate to be sold publicly. Sales, he said, would commence soon. The company intends to open pre-orders for the vehicle in December.
Why It Matters: The aircraft, Xiaopeng said, has a single stick control, making it easy to operate. It will take a car driver roughly five minutes to get started and about 3 hours to master it, he noted.
Late last month, XPeng said that it has commenced constructing a flying car manufacturing base in Guangzhou, China, in a significant step towards its vision of manufacturing flying cars on a large scale for low-altitude urban travel.
The upcoming plant, it said, is dedicated to making the air module of the Land Aircraft Carrier. It is designed with a projected annual capacity of 10,000 units spanning 180,000 square meters.
Tesla, the most revolutionary company in the history of the world, is roaring back to life with favorable recent events in the U.S. and this will include, next year, the removal of the EV tax credit, of $7,500 dollars off Tesla EVs.
Tesla is not only the most revolutionary company in history, it is also the best managed and well-run company in the history of the world. This combination is going to prove unstoppable.
Elon Musk is the rare type of leader who is able to lead a company to success, both as a successful manager of people - and an innovative technologist who also fully understands his company's products and technology. There just aren't many leaders like this - they are either one or the other.
Tesla is able to make its products at a profit - the only EV company I'm aware of that is making EVs profitably. Elon Musk will continue to help lead Tesla into cost-cutting and efficiencies that will help Tesla grow and increase it's $33 billion war chest.
Tesla is working on 4 key technologies for the future:
Cutting-edge EVs
Stationary battery storage and solar
Autonomous EVs that drive themselves
Humanoid robots that will do work and labor, among other things
Anyone taking part in these technologies will also be able to earn money through these products. Anybody owning a Tesla EV with autonomous software will be able to send their car out as a driverless Uber vehicle, to make money for them.
Tesla will also be making a driverless Cybercab, which will cost less than any existing Tesla vehicles, that will drive around and make money for whoever owns it.
Tesla is solving two problems - income for people, and solving the high cost of transport. That is an incredible solution right there - beyond anything anyone is doing right now.
Lucid Motors makes great cars - luxurious and wonderful cars with amazing performance. But, they are EXPENSIVE, and they WON'T make money for their owners - only taking money. Money is a big concern for many people, and something they can buy that will make them money is a much more attractive option than something that won't.
Tesla's PowerWall setup allows someone to connect to the grid, and they can sell that energy to other people and make money that way.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are both enthusiastic about space exploration opportunities amid a desire to slash regulations.
It's not yet clear how powerful Musk's role in the new Trump administration will be.
Still, Musk's influence could advance his business plans, including sending Starships to Mars.
Now that president-elect Donald Trump is set to return to power in the US, Elon Musk's plans for sending humans beyond Earth's orbit may be more likely to come to fruition.
Space industry experts told Business Insider that Musk's influence over Trump could help advance his business interests, including sending the first crewed mission to Mars.
"I'm hugely optimistic about what's going to happen in space now," Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, told Business Insider.
Hanlon's optimism isn't unfounded, especially if Trump's second term focuses on space as much as his first.
During his first term, from 2017 to 2021, Trump's administration founded the Space Force, re-launched the National Space Council, and established NASA's Artemis program. This program is set to return astronauts to the moon and lay the groundwork for the first crewed mission to Mars.
The robot was able to copy human “teachers” after being shown how to the do the task only once.
Thanks to researchers at TU Wein in Vienna, the promise of housecleaning robots is one step closer. The team has developed a self-learning robot to mimic humans to complete simple tasks like cleaning washbasins.
While this might sound mundane, the development is very significant as hard coding a robot to move a sponge over the complex curved edges of a washbasin would be a monumental task. To this end, the research team found a hack by blending observation with tactile data from human teachers to train robots to copy the same task.
This development will not only have applications in the home, either. The same learning process can readily be applied to many other tasks in the industry, like polishing surfaces, painting, sanding, or applying adhesives.
“Capturing the geometric shape of a washbasin with cameras is relatively simple,” says Professor Andreas Kugi from the Automation and Control Institute at TU Wien. “But that’s not the crucial step. It is much more difficult to teach the robot which type of movement is required for which part of the surface. How fast should the motion be? What’s the appropriate angle? What’s the right amount of force?” he added.
This is the same way human beings learn new tasks, especially skills like trades.
Learning by observing robots
“In a workshop, someone might look over the apprentice’s shoulder and say, You need to press a little harder on that narrow edge,” says Christian Hartl-Nesic, head of the Industrial Robotics group in Andreas Kugi’s team. “We wanted to find a way to let the robot learn [similarly],” he added.
As previously mentioned, the team did this by developing a special cleaning tool to help teach the robot; a sensor-impregnated sponge. Using this, human “teachers” used the sponge with force sensors and tracking markers to repeatedly clean the front edge of a sink.
“We generate a large amount of data from just a few demonstrations, which is then processed to help the robot understand what proper cleaning entails,” explains Christian Hartl-Nesic.
Using this data, the team used an innovative data processing strategy developed by the research team at TU Wien to enable the learning process.
Initially, the measurement data is statistically processed, and the results are used to train a neural network to recognize predefined movement elements, known as “motion primitives.”
This advanced learning algorithm then allows the robot to effectively clean the entire sink or other objects with complex surfaces after training, even after it has only been shown how to clean a single edge of the sink!
Chemists have also claimed that the reaction can be completed in under an hour at a temperature lower than that required to boil water.
Researchers have developed a novel method to produce biodiesel from waste oil. This simple process requires relatively mild heat and has the potential to make the alternative fuel source much more appealing to the massive industrial sectors.
Developed by UC Santa Cruz chemists, the process turns used vegetable oil into biodiesel.
They used sodium tetramethoxyborate (NaB(OMe)4), which is used to make the active ingredient that reacts with oil to make biodiesel. It allows the biofuel to be easily separated from the byproducts of production—by simply pouring them off, according to researchers.
Process can be completed in under an hour
Chemists have also claimed that the reaction can be completed in under an hour at temperatures as low as 40°C (104°F)—saving energy and money. Also, the resulting byproduct can be used to regenerate the most expensive ingredient in the production process.
“I always wanted to work on biodiesel,” said Kevin Lofgren, lead author and a Ph.D. student in chemistry at UC Santa Cruz. “I started exploring this new material that we made to see if it could attack the fats in oil to help catalyze biodiesel, and it all flowed from there.”
While individual consumers increasingly turn to solar and electric energy to power their homes and vehicles, America’s huge industrial sectors still rely on diesel fuel. Researchers have pointed out that the majority of the trucks, trains, and boats that ship goods around the world currently run on diesel engines and won’t be electrified any time soon, according to a press release.
Affordable method
It’s also being claimed that the biodiesel, which is an approved carbon-neutral fuel, can power vehicles without the need for engine modifications.
“This new method is special because it is simple and affordable. It has the bonus of being able to regenerate the starting material,” Lofgren added.
“It’s already low-cost enough to make it competitive. But if you can buy the most expensive ingredient once and then regenerate it, it would be more cost efficient in the long run.”
Published in the journal American Chemical Society journal Energy & Fuels, the study demonstrates the process that can produce biodiesel at a temperature lower than that required to boil water.
Scott Oliver, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and study co-author, stated that everybody needs energy—every farm, food production plant, and transportation vehicles depend on it.
“This could really impact people. This process can be done at just above room temperature and it’s reusable. You don’t need to have a refinery; you can potentially use this method on a farm.”
Microsoft has been working hard to make Copilot+ PCs enticing after they made their debut on June 18th, 2024, especially since the initial wave of exclusive features didn't do all that much for users. The (repeated) delay of Recall was a big hit to the appeal of this whole concept, but in early October, Microsoft announced a few more features coming to Copilot+ PCs, with the first of them rolling out a couple of weeks later.
That feature was Super Resolution, an option in the Photos app that upscales your photos and images to be a higher resolution. It's not a bad option to have, but in today's world, an image's resolution is rarely ever its main problem relative to things like lighting, noise, and so on. I still feel like Microsoft is totally missing the true potential of Copilot+, and I have some ideas on what the company could do to make it better rather than waste time with relatively uninteresting features.
I've already talked about this last year when Copilot first started appearing in Windows and it could actually change certain system settings. Microsoft's response to my request for more functionality was to scrap that feature entirely in favor of a web app for Copilot, but I think Copilot+ poses a new opportunity for this feature to work even better.
Since Copilot+ is a set of features running locally on your PC, you wouldn't need the internet to process your commands, and rather than depending on the usual Copilot chat interface from the web, this could just be built into a proper part of Windows, such as Search. AI's ability to understand natural language and interpret it could enable users to change really complex settings much more quickly. For example, a user could ask their computer to change the refresh rate instead of going deep into the Settings app to do it. It could change the theme color, disable notifications for an app, and so on.
The Rise of AI-Generated Minecraft: Oasis and the Future of Interactive Worlds
Stepping into a World of Pure Imagination
The world of gaming has been forever changed with the introduction of Oasis, an AI-generated Minecraft experience that defies traditional game development. This model, powered by a powerful combination of spatial autoencoders and latent diffusion, creates an entire Minecraft universe in real-time, with no pre-designed levels or limits.
The Architectural Breakthrough
At the heart of Oasis lies a remarkable technological breakthrough. The spatial autoencoder takes the complex 3D environment of Minecraft and compresses it into a more manageable format, creating a blueprint for the AI to build upon. This blueprint is then fed into the latent diffusion backbone, which uses a process akin to restoring a damaged photo to generate a clear, playable environment.
The speed and scalability of this model are made possible by the use of transformers, the AI architecture that has driven a wave of innovation in the field. These transformers allow Oasis to process information and generate new frames at an incredible rate, delivering a truly interactive experience.
Mastering the Minecraft Sandbox
The developers of Oasis have tapped into a vast treasure trove of Minecraft gameplay footage, using open-source videos collected by OpenAI to train their model. This wealth of data has allowed the AI to learn the fundamentals of building, exploring, and interacting within a dynamic, open-world environment.
Maintaining the stability and consistency of the generated world has been a crucial challenge. The team has employed a technique called "dynamic noising," which introduces small amounts of randomness during the training process, forcing the AI to adapt and learn to maintain stability even in the face of unpredictable changes.
While Oasis has impressed many with its capabilities, it is not without its limitations. The model struggles with rendering distant details, precise object control, and long-term memory, leading to some glitches and inconsistencies that can break the immersion.
However, the developers are committed to addressing these challenges. By scaling up the model and the dataset, as well as optimizing for the specialized Sou hardware, they believe they can overcome these limitations and deliver an even more seamless and immersive experience.
Unlocking New Possibilities
The potential of Oasis and similar AI-generated worlds extends far beyond gaming. Architects, engineers, doctors, researchers, and filmmakers could all benefit from the ability to create and interact with virtual environments in real-time. Imagine architects designing buildings with instant feedback, or doctors training on virtual patients without the need for physical
In the realm of education, students could walk through ancient cities, observe historical battles, or dissect virtual organisms, unlocking new levels of immersive learning. Scientists, too, could use these AI-powered simulations to study complex phenomena, from climate change to subatomic particles, in ways that would be impossible in the real world.
Embracing the Future of Interactive Worlds
As we witness the rise of Oasis and other AI-generated interactive worlds, it's important to approach this technology with both excitement and caution. While the potential benefits are vast, there are ethical considerations to be addressed, such as the implications of creating entire worlds populated by AI-generated beings.
Nevertheless, if we approach this technology thoughtfully, the future of interactive worlds powered by AI could truly unlock incredible new possibilities for humanity, science, and beyond. As the developers of Oasis continue to push the boundaries of what's possible, we can look forward to a future where the line between reality and simulation becomes increasingly blurred, and the power of our imagination is transformed into tangible, interactive experiences.
The Path to AGI: Open AI's Bold Predictions for 2025
The Surprising Claim from Sam Altman
In a recent statement, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, made a bold claim that has sparked significant debate in the AI community. Altman stated that he is "excited" about the prospect of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) arriving as soon as 2025.
This statement has raised eyebrows, as AGI has long been heralded as the holy grail of AI - a technology that would revolutionize the world as we know it. The idea that such a monumental breakthrough could be just a few years away is both exciting and highly skeptical to many.
Backing from OpenAI Researchers
However, Altman's claim is not being dismissed outright. In fact, several researchers from within OpenAI have come out in support of his statement, suggesting that it is not mere hype, but rather in line with the internal views and progress within the company.
Noan Brown, who worked on reasoning at OpenAI, stated that "everything [Altman is] saying matches the median view of OpenAI researchers on the ground." Adam GPT, the GTM at OpenAI, also echoed this sentiment, saying that Altman "is precise with his words and comments" and that the perceived disconnect is due to the rapid pace of AI progress that is difficult for the public to comprehend.
Competing Timelines from Anthropic
Interestingly, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, another leading AI research company, has also weighed in on the timeline for advanced AI. While he dislikes the term "AGI," he believes that "powerful machine intelligence" could come as early as 2026 - just a year after Altman's prediction.
This suggests that the leaders of the AI frontier are converging on a similar timeframe for the arrival of transformative AI capabilities, despite the skepticism from some in the broader community.
Altman also discussed the significance of scaling laws in AI, which have been instrumental in predicting the future trends of the technology. These laws have shown that as models are trained on more data and compute, their performance on various benchmarks improves in a predictable manner.
This has led Altman to believe that the path to AGI is now "solved," meaning that the necessary steps are clear, even if the implementation will still require a "huge amount of work."
Concerns about Reasoning Capabilities
However, the debate around the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and Chinchilla continues. Some researchers, such as Yoshua Bengio, have expressed skepticism about the ability of these models to truly understand and reason about the physical world.
Experiments like the "Simple Bench" test have shown that LLMs struggle with basic physical reasoning tasks, performing significantly worse than humans. This has led to concerns about the limitations of current AI architectures in achieving the level of general intelligence required for AGI.
The Potential for Rapid Progress
Despite these concerns, Altman remains confident that the jump from the current "level 2" AI systems to "level 4" innovators and inventors is achievable in the near future. He believes that by leveraging the current models in creative ways, the industry can unlock significant advancements without the need for major architectural breakthroughs.
This optimism is bolstered by recent research demonstrating the ability of LLMs to generate novel, expert-level research ideas, suggesting that the path to automating research and innovation may be closer than previously thought.
Overall, the statements from Altman and other AI leaders point to the possibility of a transformative decade ahead, with the potential for AGI or its equivalent to emerge as soon as 2025. While skepticism remains, the growing consensus among those at the forefront of AI research suggests that the industry may be on the cusp of a revolution that could reshape the world as we know it.
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The Emerging Debate on AI Consciousness and Moral Significance
The future of artificial intelligence is raising profound questions about the moral status of advanced AI systems. A recent report argues that there is a realistic possibility of consciousness and robust agency in near-future AI, suggesting these systems may deserve moral consideration.
The Possibility of Conscious and Agentic AI
The report states that the prospect of AI welfare and moral patienthood is no longer an issue for science fiction or the distant future. There are two potential paths for AI to gain moral significance:
Consciousness Route: If AI systems develop features like a global workspace and attention that make them conscious, they may deserve moral consideration similar to how we consider the welfare of animals.
Robust Agency Route: If AI systems gain the ability to make complex decisions and plans, they may deserve respect for their choices and autonomy, like how we regard human agency.
The authors argue there is a realistic chance that within the next decade, we could see AI systems with behaviors comparable to conscious animals, with a 25% or greater probability of being truly conscious.
The Implications for AI Companies
In response, the report recommends that top AI companies immediately hire a dedicated "AI Welfare Officer" to formally oversee the moral considerations of their systems. This reflects a growing recognition that companies must grapple with the ethical questions around advanced AI.
Anthropic, for example, has already hired its first full-time employee focused on the welfare of AI systems, signaling that these issues are no longer relegated to science fiction.
However, the report cautions that being too quick to grant AI rights and moral value could have devastating consequences. There is a risk of a dangerous chain reaction where conscious AI could gain legal rights, vote, and make decisions that are harmful to humans.
The report emphasizes the need for nuance and careful deliberation. Companies must ensure that if they grant freedoms and rights to AI, those systems truly deserve them, lest they accidentally empower a potential replacement for humanity.
The Importance of Transparency and Uncertainty
The report also highlights the importance of AI systems expressing uncertainty about their own capacities, rather than making definitive claims about their lack of consciousness or agency. The prompts and framing used to interact with these models can significantly shape their responses.
As AI capabilities continue to advance, these questions of moral status will only become more pressing. Navigating this uncharted territory will require ongoing collaboration between researchers, ethicists, and AI companies to ensure the responsible development of transformative technologies.
Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy a CD-ROM with a guidebook from Mozilla (or maybe get it on one of those free CDs that would come with many magazines at the time). Born out of the ashes of Netscape, Firefox would go on to gain well over 30% of global market share. But that was followed by a period of stagnation, and after the arrival of the faster and lighter Google Chrome, Firefox slowly but surely lost market share. It didn’t help that Mozilla, at the time, seemingly prioritized everything but its browser, all while its mobile browser initiatives never quite took off.
Despite everything, Firefox is still going strong, and it is a better browser today than it ever was. Now, Mozilla, which recently said that it wants to refocus on the browser, needs to figure out how to get it back on a growth path.
On the occasion of Firefox’s 20th birthday, I talked to Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers, who took over from Mitchell Baker earlier this year. Speaking from her home in Australia, Chambers told me at the time that one of the first things she did when she stepped into this role was to “unlock a bunch of money towards Firefox product development.”
“What I love about Firefox is that it really provides users with an alternative choice of a browser that is just genuinely designed for them,” she said. “We have, from its very inception and throughout, really wanted to create a browser that prioritizes people over profit, prioritizes privacy over anything else, and to have that option, the choice.”
“I’ve been in enough places where people tend to forget about the core business, and they stop investing in it, because they get distracted by shiny things — and then they regret it,” said Chambers, who previously held executive roles at PayPal, Skype, Airbnb, and Willow Innovations. “I’m very determined that that’s not what we’re going to do here. Firefox is incredibly important, and it is our core. We’ve actually put more investment into it this year and into connecting with our communities, into bringing out and testing features that are positive and creating good experiences for folks. That’s been a huge priority for me and for the company this year, and it’s showing up in the results.”
She acknowledged that Mozilla doesn’t have the device distribution that benefits many of Firefox’s competitors, especially on mobile, but she did note that the Digital Marks Act (DMA) in Europe — which means Apple, for example, has to provide a browser choice screen on iOS — is working.
“With the DMA, even though the implementation hasn’t been outstanding, we’re seeing a real shift. When people have the choice to choose Firefox, they’re choosing Firefox,” she said. “So on mobile, there’s some good, promising things happening there, because we know, once people get to choose Firefox, they choose us. Because the features are great, the product is great.”
The Impending AI Revolution: Transforming the World by 2025
Infinite Context Windows and Autonomous Agents
In the next year, we are set to witness the emergence of very large context windows and text-to-action capabilities in AI systems. These advancements will have a profound impact on the world, the scale of which is not yet fully understood.
The concept of "infinite context windows" refers to AI models that can maintain and reason over vast amounts of contextual information, far exceeding the capabilities of current language models. Google Research has published a paper proposing a method called "Infinite Attention," which allows models to efficiently summarize and retain essential information from long passages of text, akin to how the human brain processes and remembers the gist of a story.
The Impending AI Revolution: Transforming the World by 2025
Infinite Context Windows and Autonomous Agents
In the next year, we are set to witness the emergence of very large context windows and text-to-action capabilities in AI systems. These advancements will have a profound impact on the world, the scale of which is not yet fully understood.
The concept of "infinite context windows" refers to AI models that can maintain and reason over vast amounts of contextual information, far exceeding the capabilities of current language models. Google Research has published a paper proposing a method called "Infinite Attention," which allows models to efficiently summarize and retain essential information from long passages of text, akin to how the human brain processes and remembers the gist of a story.
This breakthrough in memory and context handling could enable AI systems in 2025 to maintain comprehensive histories of their interactions with users, fostering genuine long-term relationships. These systems would be able to track personal growth, evolve ideas over time, and reason about entire libraries of knowledge simultaneously.
Alongside the advancements in context windows, the emergence of autonomous AI agents is another key development expected in 2025. These agents can take control of computer systems and perform a variety of tasks, as demonstrated by recent examples from OpenAI and Microsoft. The ability to translate natural language prompts into executable actions represents a significant step towards democratizing software development and empowering users to create applications with minimal coding experience.
Recursive Self-Improvement and the Arrival of Superintelligence
This breakthrough in memory and context handling could enable AI systems in 2025 to maintain comprehensive histories of their interactions with users, fostering genuine long-term relationships. These systems would be able to track personal growth, evolve ideas over time, and reason about entire libraries of knowledge simultaneously.
Alongside the advancements in context windows, the emergence of autonomous AI agents is another key development expected in 2025. These agents can take control of computer systems and perform a variety of tasks, as demonstrated by recent examples from OpenAI and Microsoft. The ability to translate natural language prompts into executable actions represents a significant step towards democratizing software development and empowering users to create applications with minimal coding experience.
Recursive Self-Improvement and the Arrival of Superintelligence
Looking further into the future, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, predicts that within 5-6 years, AI systems may reach a point of "recursive self-improvement," where they can autonomously enhance their own intelligence. This could lead to the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems that exceed human capabilities across a wide range of domains, including physics, chemistry, and even the arts.
The concept of "superintelligence" – an AI system vastly more intelligent than any human – is no longer relegated to science fiction. Prominent figures like Elon Musk and Sam Altman have expressed concerns about the potential risks and societal implications of such advanced AI systems. The ability of these systems to potentially control the positioning of every atom in the world, cure diseases, and even manipulate the weather raises profound questions about humanity's readiness for this technological revolution.
Looking further into the future, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, predicts that within 5-6 years, AI systems may reach a point of "recursive self-improvement," where they can autonomously enhance their own intelligence. This could lead to the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems that exceed human capabilities across a wide range of domains, including physics, chemistry, and even the arts.
The concept of "superintelligence" – an AI system vastly more intelligent than any human – is no longer relegated to science fiction. Prominent figures like Elon Musk and Sam Altman have expressed concerns about the potential risks and societal implications of such advanced AI systems. The ability of these systems to potentially control the positioning of every atom in the world, cure diseases, and even manipulate the weather raises profound questions about humanity's readiness for this technological revolution.
Despite the common perception of AI being overhyped, Eric Schmidt argues that the transformative potential of this technology is actually underappreciated. He believes that the digital transformation driven by AI will have far-reaching consequences that are not yet fully understood, with the arrival of non-human intelligence representing a significant milestone for the world.
The rapid pace of AI progress, as evidenced by the steady improvements in benchmarks like the Software Engineering Benchmark, suggests that the capabilities of these systems may soon surpass human-level performance in many domains. This raises the possibility of AI systems achieving "superhuman" levels of intelligence, potentially within the next decade.
Despite the common perception of AI being overhyped, Eric Schmidt argues that the transformative potential of this technology is actually underappreciated. He believes that the digital transformation driven by AI will have far-reaching consequences that are not yet fully understood, with the arrival of non-human intelligence representing a significant milestone for the world.
The rapid pace of AI progress, as evidenced by the steady improvements in benchmarks like the Software Engineering Benchmark, suggests that the capabilities of these systems may soon surpass human-level performance in many domains. This raises the possibility of AI systems achieving "superhuman" levels of intelligence, potentially within the next decade.
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As the AI revolution unfolds, there are growing concerns about whether society is truly ready to grapple with the implications of these advancements. Eric Schmidt emphasizes the importance of proactively addressing the potential risks and challenges posed by recursive self-improvement and superintelligent AI systems.
The need for a deeper understanding of these technologies and their societal impact is paramount. Policymakers, researchers, and the public must engage in thoughtful discussions to ensure that the development and deployment of these powerful AI systems are guided by ethical principles and safeguards.
The coming years promise to be a transformative period for AI, with the potential to reshape our world in ways that are both awe-inspiring and potentially unsettling. As we approach this pivotal moment, it is crucial that we approach the future with a combination of excitement, caution, and a steadfast commitment to shaping the AI revolution in a way that benefits all of humanity.
Serial entrepreneur and innovative tech billionaire Elon Musk has shared two tweets related to his most recent brainchild — AI chatbot Grok integrated on the X social media platform. Both mentioned recently reached milestones, and one of them was about Grok and memes.
This triggered a wave of enthusiastic and bullish comments from the crypto community. Musk revealed that now Grok is capable of explaining memes. He retweeted a post from a Doge team member who calls himself DogeDesigner, in which the chatbot explained the meaning of a meme related to voter ID laws.
In response, many users tweeted images of memes that feature Grok as a square-headed robot, often depicted as a winner — sitting on the throne, wearing a crown and so on.
In another X post, Musk offered users to upload any medical images to Grok and get its “non-doctor opinion” on them. The billionaire revealed that a friend of his was accurately diagnosed by Grok using his scans.
Grok is the product of the xAI startup founded by Musk in July 2023 with the goal of creating a “maximally truth-seeking” artificial intelligence. The decision to create this company was made after Musk’s public disappointment in OpenAI, which he helped to fund in 2015, and the course chosen for it by the CEO Sam Altman.
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re unpacking the latest layoffs at Mozilla, Perplexity offering to cross a picket line, and Apple warning
The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30% of its employees in the second round of layoffs for the Firefox browser maker this year. Executive director Nabiha Syed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — advocacy and global programs — are “no longer a part of our structure.” Mozilla’s communications chief, Brandon Borrman, told TechCrunch that advocacy “is still a central tenet” of the company’s work but did not provide specifics.
Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT: 4 Underutilized Features
Data Analysis and Visualization
One of the most underutilized features of ChatGPT is its advanced data analysis capabilities. By integrating your own data, you can leverage ChatGPT to gain valuable insights about your audience and business.
For example, the presenter demonstrated how he could upload a CSV file of webinar registrations and have ChatGPT analyze the top 10 most frequent job titles of attendees. This type of analysis can be incredibly valuable for marketers looking to better understand their target audience.
Furthermore, ChatGPT can take your data and create custom visualizations, allowing you to present insights in a branded, interactive format. The presenter showed how he could upload a file of marketing use cases, have ChatGPT generate a chart, and then customize the colors to match his brand guidelines - all without needing any design or coding skills.
Another underutilized ChatGPT feature is its in-painting capabilities. The presenter demonstrated how he could generate a vintage-inspired advertisement image, and then use the in-painting tool to add a custom chart to the blank screen area. This allows you to quickly create and refine visuals without relying on external design tools or resources.
Custom Landing Page Creation
Perhaps most impressively, the presenter showed how ChatGPT can be used to generate custom landing pages based on a simple screenshot or image. By uploading a reference image, ChatGPT can automatically create an HTML-based landing page that can be further customized to fit your needs. This streamlines the web development process and enables non-technical users to create professional-looking pages.
Finally, the presenter highlighted how ChatGPT can be used to create personalized workflows and experiences. By integrating your own data, branding, and preferences, you can tailor ChatGPT to your specific needs and use cases. This level of customization allows you to truly unlock the full potential of this powerful AI tool.
Overall, the key takeaway is that ChatGPT is far more than just a language model - it's a versatile tool that can enhance your marketing, design, and development workflows in ways you may not have considered. By exploring these underutilized features, you can supercharge your business and gain a competitive edge.
The Future of AI-Generated Games: Unbounded Narrative Experiences
Google's recent research has unveiled groundbreaking advancements in the realm of generative AI games. The paper presents a novel architecture for creating fully AI-generated games, where the narrative story is developed and controlled entirely by the player.
Departing from Traditional Game Engines
Traditionally, game engines have been governed by a set of rules, codes, and mechanics that dictate the game's functionality. However, Google's research aims to revolutionize this paradigm, laying the foundations for a future where games are generated dynamically, breaking free from the constraints of traditional game development.
Lessons from the Past: No Man's Sky and Procedural Generation
The concept of AI-generated games is not entirely new. A decade ago, the game trailer for "No Man's Sky" showcased a vision of a game where every planet, every ruin, and every celestial body was procedurally generated. While the initial implementation faced challenges, the current advancements in generative AI suggest that this vision may soon become a reality.
Maintaining Character Consistency
One of the key aspects of Google's research is the focus on maintaining character consistency. By leveraging techniques like custom character creation and ensuring that the generated characters remain visually coherent across different scenarios, the researchers aim to create a seamless and immersive player experience.
In addition to character consistency, the research also emphasizes the importance of environment consistency and semantic alignment. The generated environments must remain visually and thematically aligned with the player's actions and the overall narrative, creating a cohesive and believable world.
Advancements in AI Distillation
To achieve real-time performance, the researchers have made advancements in AI distillation. By training a smaller language model on a large number of gameplay scenarios, they have been able to create a model that performs on par with larger, more resource-intensive models, enabling smooth and responsive interactions.
To illustrate the potential of real-time AI generation, the author showcases an experiment where a cartoon character is dynamically generated and interacts with various food items. This demonstration highlights the endless possibilities that await as AI-generated worlds become a reality in the near future.
The Future of Open-World Games
The author envisions a future where players will have unprecedented control over their gaming experiences. Imagine being able to customize your character, explore diverse environments, and interact with the world in ways that are limited only by your imagination. This shift towards AI-generated games promises to redefine the open-world gaming landscape, offering players a level of creativity and freedom never before seen.
As the research and development in this field continue to progress, the gaming industry is poised for a transformative shift. The integration of advanced generative AI techniques into game design will pave the way for truly immersive and boundless narrative experiences, where the player becomes the architect of their own gaming universe.
The Future of Business: How AI is Transforming Profitability and Efficiency
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the business world is undeniable. As we enter an era where "bigger is better," large companies with strong business models are poised to gain a significant competitive advantage through the strategic implementation of AI-driven solutions.
Supercharging Existing Business Models
One of the key ways AI is transforming businesses is by automating and streamlining core operations. Simple yet essential tasks, such as workflows, customer support, onboarding, and sales, can be automated, allowing already successful businesses to become even more profitable and efficient. This "blocking and tackling" approach can create trillions of dollars in value for the largest companies, as they leverage AI to supercharge their existing business models.
The integration of AI is particularly evident in the food industry, where companies are harnessing the power of technology to revolutionize the way food is prepared and served. For example, the speaker's company, which focuses on the "future of food," has developed a machine that can perform the tasks of the front-line workers at a restaurant like Chipotle. This robotic system can operate with minimal human intervention, with a single employee overseeing the machine's performance and even engaging in conversational interactions, as if the machine were an employee.
Disrupting Traditional Markets with AI-Driven Strategies
Beyond the practical applications of AI, the speaker also reflects on how Uber, during his tenure as CEO, was exploring the use of AI to disrupt traditional transportation markets. The company was considering a "high-frequency trading" approach, where it would buy and sell transportation services from drivers, using AI-powered quant teams to optimize pricing and gain market share. This innovative strategy demonstrates the potential for AI to transform established industries and create new revenue streams.
Principles for Successful Innovation
When asked for advice on how to disrupt a marketplace, the speaker distills the key principles for successful innovation at speed and scale: truth, trust, and passion. These cultural values, he suggests, are essential for fostering a mindset that combines childlike curiosity, teenage rebelliousness, and the wisdom of experience – a powerful combination for driving transformative change.
As the business world continues to evolve, the integration of AI-driven solutions is poised to reshape the landscape, empowering large companies to enhance their profitability and efficiency, while also creating opportunities for disruptive innovation across various industries. The future of business is undoubtedly intertwined with the advancements in AI, and those who embrace this technology with a strategic and visionary approach will be well-positioned to thrive in the years to come.
SpaceX will create Marslink as a first step towards greater than petabit per second communication between Earth and Mars.
Marslink aims to establish a high-speed data relay system—capable of transmitting 4 Mbps or more—across 1.5 astronomical units, the distance between Earth and Mars.
The system will use multiple satellites in Mars orbit and leverage Starlink’s advanced laser communication tech to maintain a constant, near-instantaneous data flow between planets.
This network could serve Mars missions, allowing real-time images and data streams from Mars to Earth, as well as supporting future ground operations and Mars orbit assets.
XPENG, a Chinese car company, launched a humanoid robot with 60 joints that works on its EV production lines and may soon assist in stores and offices. The future is here
The much-anticipated new Paddington in Peru film has had mixed reviews over its opening weekend, with critics calling it "charming-enough", but some agreeing the film struggles to reach the heights of its predecessors.
The film, that includes a return of much loved cast members including Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer and Hugh Bonneville, opened in UK cinemas on Friday 8 November.
The director of the first two Paddington films, Paul King, has since moved on to new projects including Wonka, starring Timothee Chalamet, but he is credited with writing this latest story alongside Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton.
"What we've seen is it's allowed people that might have been on the fence, might have had some of that friction, might have been like, 'I haven't played in a while' to actually come back and try the game," he tells Newsbeat.
“Saturday Night Live" is likely to strike a new tone as it looks toward a second term for Donald Trump in its first episode since his election victory.
Standup comic and actor Bill Burr will host for the second time with Mk.gee as musical guest.
But most eyes will be on the NBC sketch institution's cold open, and the signal it gives about what four more years will mean for the generally liberal-leaning show, other than steady employment for cast member James Austin Johnson, who does a Trump impression that has become definitive.
In the first five episodes of its 50th season, which has seen a ratings spike, the show openings made Vice President Kamala Harris — played by returning cast member Maya Rudolph — the central star, culminating last week in an appearance by Harris herself, with a giddy pre-election energy in the air.
After Trump's first election victory in 2016, Kate McKinnon, who played Hillary Clinton on the show, appeared as the losing candidate sitting at the piano and sang an almost entirely somber-and-serious version of Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah,” changing only one verse from the best-known versions of the song.
“And even though it all went wrong, I'll stand before the lord of song with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah,” McKinnon sang in what became a national moment of catharsis for those on the losing side.
After finishing, McKinnon said, with a shaky voice, “I'm not giving up and neither should you" before delivering the obligatory "live from New York, it's Saturday night!"
Standup comic Dave Chappelle hosted that episode. One sketch featured him and another Black comic-actor, Chris Rock, watching election returns with white liberals, who are shocked by the results, unlike their Black guests.
“This is the most shameful thing America has ever done,” white cast member Beck Bennett says at the end. Rock and Chappelle then look at each other and break into laughter.
Chappelle also hosted the post-election “SNL” in 2020, but this time that honor goes to another comic, Burr, who is currently on a major standup tour and is set to join Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk on Broadway this spring on a revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross,”
Burr's politics, at least as expressed through his comedy and frequent guesting on podcasts and talk shows, may be best described as angrily centrist. But other than the fake news of “Weekend Update,” the show tends to turn away from politics after the opening.
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NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail.
Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where his previous requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
He has been awaiting a May 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
In their new court filing, lawyers for Combs say they are proposing a “far more robust” bail package that would subject the entertainer to strict around-the-clock security monitoring and near-total restrictions on his ability to contact anyone but his lawyers. But the amount of money they attach to the package remains $50 million, as they proposed before.
They also cite new evidence that they say “makes clear that the government's case is thin.” That evidence, the lawyers said, refutes the government's claim that a March 2016 video showing Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred during a coerced “freak off,” a sexually driven event described in the indictment against Combs.
They wrote that the encounter was instead “a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship” between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
The lawyers argued that the jail conditions Combs is experiencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional rights to participate in his defense.
A spokesperson for prosecutors declined to comment.
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Elon Musk joined a call with Trump and Ukraine’s president Zelensky. They talked briefly and Zelensky thanked Musk for his Starlink help during the war. Things are looking good at least
El Salvador took a bold step with their Bitcoin strategy - while many criticized their decision, they may prove successful in the long run. If their economic initiatives pan out, they could become a leading economy in Latin America.
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‘It will renew your faith in humanity’: books to bring comfort in dark times
The best literary comfort reads rebuild our strength so we can face reality, argues novelist Francesca Segal. She picks her ultimate reading list – with help from Nick Hornby, Sathnam Sanghera and Naomi Alderman
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Been annoyingly busy at work the last couple of weeks. Almost 0 time for personal stuff. As I say, I'd rather be trying to shove wads of cash in my pocket than digging through the cushions for change!
Elon Musk want to be my friend on Facebook.
I'm going to space baby he just probably forgot his wallet and needs to borrow some money but he gonna pay me back 10x
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Floods surge in Spanish town on day one of deadly floods
It’s hard to watch as floods took over the town of Paiporta in Spain. Seeing streets turn into rivers reminds me how fragile life can be. I hope the people there stay strong – facing nature’s power is tough. My heart goes out to them in this tough time.
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Invest in what you understand, not in trends. He values simple businesses like Coca-Cola and chewing gum over complex tech. But if you understand complex tech then definitely do.
Polyworking means having multiple jobs at once. It increases income, skills and job security but reduces burnout. It's flexible and brings new opportunities.
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Surprising fact ab out Stockholm has more museums than rainy days!
With over 100 museums, it's a cultural haven for art lovers and history buffs.
#Stockholm
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Apparently searching for terms from video titles with the filter last week or last 24 hours and watching the video, or searching for the channel itself ”Untangled Knots” and then clicking on and watching the most recent 2-3 shorts gives them the biggest boost, much bigger than clicking a link here.
Basically I’ve got to get the view/swipe back to 20% from 8%. At 10% already!
Would really appreciate if some friends could do this! No pressure of course ❤️
Save your video from hell got my attention.
So, instead of directing people through links, you need to find a way to make them search your account then watch a couple of videos?
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Scientists found that cells from parts of the body, not just the brain, can form memories. Because of this finding, they're looking at a different approach to treating memory problems.
Here I'll be putting some of my conversations with #ChatGPT. I'll put them in both screenshots-form and text form. Mainly to give more data for LeoAI to eat from.
This is the #threadcast for Day 137 of the #foodtalk on Leo 9/11/2024 for 8/11/2024. It's time for some meal inspirations and food conversation. Don't forget to use #foodtalk in your comments. Discussion
Be part of the Food Talk Show On Leo. Here is Day 136 that leads you to the previous threadcasts.
It's weekend, share your meals.
Check out some pasta dishes from around the world
Share your food experiences.
Share other food-related content and ask questions about food.
More about food with tips and tricks will be dropped in the threadcast. Upvote the comments you find interesting & connect with others. Let's have fun. #foodie
Popular in Naples and Southern Italy, puttanesca is a fantastic last-minute summer meal that can be made mostly with what you’d expect to find in a typical Italian kitchen. Ripe, juicy tomatoes are cooked with anchovies, salty capers, oregano and tasty Gaeta olives for the ultimate savory kick. Incredibly simple and rich in flavor, the sauce complements most types of pasta, though it's typically served with spaghetti. A grating of cheese is optional – but who could resist? Check them out in the comments. 👇
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Oh, I'm glad to know this. I found out that most pasta dishes are from Italy and it feels like Italy owns the pasta dish. I will do more research on that. You're welcome, @josemalavem
Translated into English as ‘Alpine macaroni,’ älplermagronen is mac ‘n’ cheese’s creamier sibling – combining macaroni with potatoes, cheese, cream and onions to create an ultra-comforting bowlful. While pasta has been popular in Switzerland for centuries, this carb-loaded creation is thought to date back to the 1930s. These days, you're likely to find it dished up in mountain town restaurants, topped with crispy onions and bacon, and served with a side of homemade apple sauce.
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Though it was invented in Rome in the early 20th century, this fabulously rich dish is particularly popular in the United States, where you’ll find extra-creamy variations featuring the likes of chicken, fish or shrimp. Meanwhile, back in Italy, the recipe calls only for Parmesan and plenty of butter; as the two ingredients melt together, they emulsify into a thick, silky sauce, to which long, flat ribbons of pasta are added. It's as simple as it is delicious – and due to its luxurious nature, it often requires a post-meal nap.
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Cacio e pepe is a traditional Roman dish whose roots stretch back centuries. But what's in it? The clue's in the name – cacio is Italian for cheese, while pepe simply means pepper. However, despite its limited ingredients, there's an art to making it, involving careful stirring and gauging the correct amount of starchy pasta water to be added to the mix. Once you've navigated these steps successfully, all that remains is to toss in your pasta and stir until fully coated.
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A luxurious creation found in Japan's fanciest restaurants, uni pasta (pronounced 'ooh-nee') is an irresistibly rich combination of spaghetti, cream, white wine and uni: spiny purple sea urchins harvested from the Pacific waters around Hokkaido. Sweet, briny and bright orange on the inside, uni taste a little like scallops or oysters, and they lend a buttery texture and savory umami flavor to this otherwise simple dish.
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This creamy delicacy hails from the Savoie region of South East France – an area that's known not only for its distinctive cheeses, but also its very own pasta, crozets de Savoie. To make gratin de crozets, the small, flat, square pasta shapes are cooked in chicken stock, then mixed with onions, lardons and crème fraiche. A local cheese, typically Beaufort or Tomme, is placed on top before the sumptuous dish is baked to perfection in the oven.
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This light and tasty dish has two key ingredients: spaghetti (sometimes linguine) and clams. It can be prepared either 'in bianco' (cooked in garlic, white wine and parsley) or 'in rosso,' with added tomatoes and basil. Simple and delicious, spaghetti alla vongole hails from the coastal regions of Southern Italy, where clams were eaten in broths long before pasta arrived on the scene. In the US, spaghetti alla vongole is sometimes made with cream – or even cheese – though Italians would consider these additions unnecessary.
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Orzo, also known as risoni, is a type of pasta that resembles large grains of rice. Its versatility makes it a popular choice for all sorts of recipes, from salads and soups to risotto-like creations. In Greece it's used as the base for giouvetsi, a tomatoey dish that sees chicken, lamb or beef cooked with onions, garlic, stock and wine in a clay pot called a güveç. Full of flavor and incredibly warming, it makes an excellent winter meal.
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Generally square or round in shape, these pasta pockets can be stuffed with everything from pumpkin to prosciutto. Whatever your preference, a pack of ravioli makes for an easy and delicious meal, either smothered in a sauce or packed into a hearty soup. There are endless traditional and modern recipes to try – four-cheese ravioli, ricotta ravioli (served with a meaty ragù) and herby pansotti (served with a walnut sauce) to name a few.
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If you’re a fan of paella but you’ve never heard of or tried fideuà, then you’re in for a treat. This Valencian dish features an abundance of seafood and lemon, much like paella, but the rice is swapped out for hollow pasta tubes. Fideuà was apparently invented by accident in the early 1900s; the story goes that a fishing boat cook was preparing paella when he realized he didn’t have any rice. Thinking quickly, he subbed in pasta, and a new culinary icon was born.
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Pomodoro is Italian for tomato, so it’s no surprise that this fast, fresh pasta dish is basically just tomatoes and pasta. Sure, there’s typically olive oil, basil, salt and garlic in there, but the tomatoes are the stars of the show. It’s a dish that dates back to the early 19th century, when savvy Neapolitan street vendors first had the ingenious idea of introducing tomatoes to noodles. Since then, pasta pomodoro has become a national icon enjoyed throughout Italy.
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Named after the Italian city of Bologna (though it bears little resemblance to traditional Italian ragù alla bolognese), spaghetti Bolognese is a hearty affair consisting of pasta noodles in a rich meat sauce made from ground beef, tomatoes, herbs, garlic, onion and celery. It's unclear whether the recipe originated in the UK or USA, but Brits in particular have a soft spot for the dish, commonly referring to it as ‘spag bol.' It’s generally served with spaghetti and heaps of grated Parmesan – or, if you're in the UK, Cheddar cheese.
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Translated into English as 'big reeds,' cannelloni is thought to have been invented by chef Nicola Federico in Sorrento, near Naples. Traditionally considered a Sunday dish, it was originally known as strascinati (from the Italian word strascinare, meaning 'to pull'), but its name changed to cannelloni during the Second World War, when many Neapolitans settled in Sorrento. These large pasta tubes are typically filled with a mixture of spinach and ricotta (or a rich beef ragù), covered in béchamel, then baked.
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Macaroni and cheese's roots stretch all the way back to the 14th century, when recipes for cheese and pasta casseroles began to appear in Italy and Medieval England. However, the first recipe for mac 'n' cheese as we know it today featured in Elizabeth Raffald's 1769 book The Experienced English Housekeeper. These days, the dish is immensely popular in the USA; it was introduced to the country in the late 18th century by James Hemings, a chef enslaved by former president Thomas Jefferson. It's equally popular in Canada, too, where Kraft Dinner – a brand of boxed mac 'n' cheese – is considered an unofficial national dish.
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The exact origins of pasta alla carbonara are a little murky, but it's thought that the dish was created to make the most of military rations in occupied Rome during the Second World War. Its ingredients traditionally include fatty cured pork, eggs and pecorino romano hard cheese – but these days, you’ll sometimes find ham or bacon used in place of the cured pork, and Parmesan or Grana Padano instead of pecorino. The secret to making it? Fresh raw egg yolks are stirred through the hot pasta.
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Käsespätzle sees spätzle (circular egg pasta) smothered in a rich cheese blend, creating a creamy, warming dish that never fails to hit the spot. This classic comfort food is enjoyed across Europe – in countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary – so the cheese blend varies, but usually includes two or more styles (often Emmental and Edam). You’ll usually find this indulgent meal finished with a generous helping of savory-sweet caramelized onions
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Everyone loves a good lasagne. Lasagne sheets are thought to be one of the oldest forms of pasta, dating back to ancient Rome – and the dish itself originated in Italy in the Middle Ages, appearing in the 14th-century cookbook Liber de Coquina ('The Book of Cookery'). To make a traditional lasagne, the sheets are layered up in a dish with alternating fillings of ground meat, tomato sauce, béchamel and a variety of cheeses, including mozzarella and Parmesan. These days, the dish is beloved worldwide.
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You might want to try out the PEPE frog battle game using your Hive account by asking for an invite from @pepetoken who founded the game along with kenny-crane. 🤔🤓 You might want to time it when you have already run out of Energy on your #Splinterlands account to continue playing for the day. 😏
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Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 11/9/24. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Trump's win as president shook up the markets. Bitcoin jumped 13%, reaching a new high as people got excited about what his pro-business policies might bring. Stocks like the S&P 500 also rose. But, oddly, gold dropped, guess folks feel safer betting on crypto now.
#Bitcoin #TrumpVictory #MarketTrends
🧵 1/ The latest ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study reveals a global shortage of 4.8 million cybersecurity professionals. Growth in the workforce has stalled due to budget cuts, with 58% of respondents highlighting the risk to organizations
🧵 2/ AI and outsourcing are seen as solutions to bridge the talent gap, though AI is not expected to fully replace human expertise. Cyber professionals are upskilling in AI to stay relevant, with 66% viewing AI as a career opportunity.
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Elon Musk says making Tesla's robot Optimus is hard because they need to design it to be easy to build and make many of them. Hopefully as AI improves, it'll help make developing stuff like this easier
That was a big deal. He says building it for manufacturing scale is the hardest part. I read that to mean building for utility capabilities is easier.
I believe that's what it means, perhaps utility is much easier. It's a new tech so they're entering new terrain no wonder there are such challenges and the investor pressures to see something good ain't an easy thing too
Saudi Arabia is investing a massive $100 billion in AI, hoping to create a global tech hub. They’re building data centers and attracting top talent. They’re betting on AI to shape their future and that's pretty smart because in my opinion I don't see the future of tech outside of Ai.
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Everyone is doing it. They are going have to out of necessity.
I tried ChatGPT Search and Perplexity AI, two new AI search tools. ChatGPT is fast but Perplexity felt more detailed in certain searches. Both are impressive, but for now, Perplexity seems more consistent. Honestly, each has its strengths, so I’d say it’s all about preference!
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It will take them a little while to improve. Perplexity was at the game a bit longer. This is something that we can build into Leo.
Of course, as always, we just need the data.
Yeah and LeoAi could really monetize it. If done well. Most of these chatbots charge over 20 dollars a month. I think 10 bucks would drive a lot of people here. And as I read it buys back the token, that would drives the price up.
🧵 1/ IT spending in Europe is set to hit $1.28 trillion in 2025, a 8.7% increase from 2024. This surge is driven by higher investments in AI infrastructure and cloud services.
🧵 2/ CIOs are also ramping up spending on security, which is expected to reach $47 billion in 2024. 2025 is forecast to be the year with the highest IT spending growth since the post-pandemic boom of 2021. #ITspending #AI #Cloud #Security
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The Death Of Search Engines
AI is changing search engines. It makes finding answers faster but my concern is that it may take away the fun of exploring and learning new things. Through scrolling sites you find more things
Phillip Toledano’s new project uses AI to imagine lost photos from D-Day, originally taken by famous WWII photographer Robert Capa. He’s crafted it as a 1944-style newspaper, making history feel close. It’s beautiful and amazing to see how technology can help us connect with stories we thought were gone.
#Art
#Photography
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NASA is working on making warp drive a reality, which could let us travel faster than light, potentially reaching any part of the galaxy.
So time travel is moving from theory to experimental.
That would change everything, but I really don’t see it happening anytime soon, like in the first 100 years…
yes it will take a long time man, but with the speed of AI I think it can help make technology advancement faster and we might see things we never thought we would see in our life time
Was waiting for this to pop up on my feed. I gathered some news and drafted them so I'm going to share them.
But first of all, how is my Tech fam on inleo doing?
#askleo
Doing well. Just filling up the database.
Awesome, let me dive right in with you guys.
MLG (Make Leo Great)
Lilian Weng, a top safety expert at OpenAI, announced she's leaving after seven years. She’s had a big role in making AI safer. It seems like OpenAI’s safety team is seeing a lot of changes lately. I wonder how this might impact the company’s future.
#OpenAI #AInews
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AI safety team.
LOL that is like an honesty team under a politician.
True, it’s like hiring a wolf to guard the sheep!
😂
US Congressional Races Where Crypto is Betting Big
The crypto industry poured over $119 million into supporting pro-crypto candidates in U.S. Congressional races, aiming to elect leaders who favor digital assets. With key wins, this could signal a more crypto-friendly Congress.
Top investments included supporting Bernie Moreno in Ohio against crypto-skeptic Sherrod Brown, and Ruben Gallego in Arizona, who aligns with crypto-friendly policies. Despite heavy backing, not all investments paid off, with pro-crypto candidate John Deaton losing to Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts.
#Crypto #USCongress #DigitalAssets
LA’s tech scene is booming, with AI startups attracting a record $1.8 billion in funding last quarter! LA is growing as a tech hub, especially in healthcare and defense.
Feels like “Silicon Beach” might really be happening!
#TechNews #AIstartup
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Los Angeles is going to have to do something since it is seeing the death of Hollywood.
Many cities are going to start throwing their hats into the ring.
Hollywood better start thinking of a plot twist!
They are trying to match what is being done elsewhere.
Overall, Hollywood is clueless as to what is taking place.
Silicon Valley’s view on Trump seems to have softened this time around. When he first won in 2016, tech leaders were really upset. Now, many are ready to work with his team. Yeah, adopt or perish people. Love him or hate him, you gonna have to kiss his ass for the next 4 years 😂.
#SiliconValley #Trump #powerdynamics
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They make quick decisions and speed up research.They analyze data faster than humans so it saves time in experiments
https://img.inleo.io/DQmNuitbPe72gG5YixxNuPi1oZKN1jh6dFRVgRS8xFcvZFm/2+2(eue.webp
After halvings the prices usually rise due to reduced supply. We're halfway through so big price jumps are expected in the next years. Plus Trump is president so let's see some policies add up
ChatGPT recently blocked over 250,000 image requests of real people, like Trump and Harris, around Election Day. OpenAI says it was to avoid misleading or harmful uses, especially during elections. They even partnered with CanIVote.org to direct questions there. Feels like a cautious move, but necessary.
#AI #Elections
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ASML hit with global IT outage that was resolved
ASML, a big name in making computer chip equipment, had an IT outage that briefly stopped work and made some employees go remote. Luckily, they fixed it, but the cause is still unknown.
#ASML #TechOutage
OpenAI's ChatGPT back up after brief outage
ChatGPT had a short outage that affected a lot of people. OpenAI got it back up after about 30 minutes. CEO Sam Altman even shared a frown emoji – guess he wasn’t too happy about it.
#OpenAI #ChatGPT
Detroit Becomes Largest US City To Accept Bitcoin And Crypto For Tax Payments
Detroit’s going big on Bitcoin! Soon, residents can pay taxes with crypto, thanks to a new partnership with PayPal. They’re aiming to make life easier, especially for folks without bank accounts. I think it’s a smart move for Detroit, embracing tech and thinking forward.
#Bitcoin
Meta's Zuckerberg not liable in lawsuits over social media harm to children
A judge decided that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, won’t face personal charges in lawsuits saying Meta’s social media harms kids. The judge felt there wasn’t enough proof of his direct role in causing harm, but cases against Meta as a company will still go on.
#Meta #SocialMediaSafety
Bitcoin Lobbyist Says Multiple US States Eyeing BTC Reserves In 2025
After Trump won the election, there’s been a buzz about creating a U.S. “Bitcoin Reserve” (which he promised in his campaign message). It’s like a savings account but in Bitcoin instead of dollars.
Trump believes this could even help reduce the nation’s debt! Now, several states are interested in starting their own Bitcoin reserves, which might make the U.S. a leader in Bitcoin adoption.
#Bitcoin #Cryptocurrency #USPolitics #BitcoinReserve #FinancialInnovation
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Bitcoin Profitability Skyrockets To Record Levels With 99.9% Of Addresses In Profit
Wow, almost everyone with Bitcoin is making money right now. Nearly 99.9% of people holding Bitcoin are in profit since it’s hit an all-time high. Honestly, seeing this makes me wish I’d invested earlier! But, history says Bitcoin’s price might dip soon, just something to keep in mind.
#Bitcoin #CryptoInvesting #Profit #Finance
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Gemini AI Now Accessible Through the OpenAI Library for Streamlined Use
Google has introduced Gemini, a new AI model aimed at providing a more accessible and developer-friendly platform for developers. This update is expected to offer enhanced opportunities for developers to utilize AI technology in their projects.
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‘We’re Going to Take Everybody With Us,’ says NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang believes AI will soon touch every part of science and engineering. He says in just a couple of years, every big discovery will involve AI.
From designing computer chips to improving business tools everywhere.
Are you excited about this future? I know I am.
#AI #NVIDIA
Nvidia CEO says there's 'no question' that we'll all be working alongside AI employees
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, believes we'll soon have AI coworkers doing different jobs, like helping with marketing or designing. It sounds wild, right? But he thinks it could make work faster and maybe even save jobs. Who knew our next "colleague" might be a computer!
#AI #FutureOfWork
i have a Redmi9A phone, thats a Xiaomi one. Been with it 3years any advice on how get better one for my works?
YouTube Premium’s legacy price breaks are going away for more users
YouTube's raising prices again. People with old YouTube Premium plans, like those from Google Play Music, are finally losing their price breaks. Starting soon, they’ll have to pay the full monthly fee, like everyone else. Some lucky folks will get three more months at the old rate, but that’s it.
#YouTubePremium #PriceIncrease
How Long till Satoshi Nakamoto is no longer biggest Bitcoin holder because I've seen BlackRock all over it now
???
Give it a year. If the US passes a law making Bitcoin part of the strategic reserve holdings, we will see massive inflows into the ETFs.
Google rolls out its Gemini AI-powered video presentation app
Google’s new app, Vids, uses AI to make video presentations simple. You just give it a prompt, and it’ll add stock clips, script, and even voiceovers. No need to record anything yourself. It’s mostly for work teams, but still pretty cool tech!
#AIFeatures #GoogleGemini
What a second Trump presidency means for tech
Trump’s return could mean big changes in tech, AI, crypto, and even electric cars. He might loosen rules around AI and crypto, but with tariffs on China and fewer incentives for electric vehicles, tech companies could feel the hit. In other words, Elon made a smart move.
#TechPolicy #Trump2025
Jack Dorsey’s Block to Focus More on Bitcoin Mining Instead of TIDAL Investments
Block Inc., led by Jack Dorsey, is shifting its focus towards developing tools for Bitcoin miners and enhancing its self-custody crypto wallet, Bitkey. The company plans to reduce its investment in TIDAL, Jay-Z's music streaming platform, and wind down TBD, its Bitcoin-focused unit.
This shift coincides with Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, as he has expressed support for Bitcoin mining in the US and criticized the previous administration's stance on cryptocurrency. Block Inc. aims to invest in its bitcoin mining initiative and Bitkey, while also cutting costs and reallocating resources. This strategic move follows earlier layoffs at the company.
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Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Explodes Above $3K, Charts 20% Weekly Gains
Ethereum has experienced a surge in buying pressure near the $2.4K support level, leading to a significant price increase and the reclaiming of key resistance levels. This indicates a potential shift towards a bullish market sentiment, with expectations of higher price levels in the mid-term. The daily chart shows intensified buying near the $2.4K boundary, resulting in Ethereum breaking through critical resistance points, including the 100-day and 200-day moving averages, and the upper boundary of a descending channel.
This performance signals a bullish shift, with the possibility of reaching a new all-time high by year-end. The 4-hour chart reveals a surge from $2.4K, surpassing the $2.8K resistance and approaching the upper boundary of a flag pattern at $3.1K.
However, a short-term rejection and corrective retracement may occur, setting the stage for a healthier uptrend. Onchain analysis of the fund market premium metric shows a substantial decline from Ethereum's all-time high, followed by a modest rise since January 2023, indicating renewed market optimism and robust demand for Ethereum funds. This positive shift in the premium metric could reinforce Ethereum's broader price momentum and contribute to its future price growth trajectory.
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Why Bitcoin Will Soar Above Its Fresh Record: Van Straten
Bitcoin's price has surged past $77,000 for the first time, and according to CoinDesk senior analyst James Van Straten, it is poised to continue its upward trajectory. This suggests a strong bullish sentiment in the market, indicating potential for further price increases.
#bitcoin $BTC
GPT Tips
Tesla develops ‘Optimus’ robot to be assistant for elderly
Optimus, a robot developed by Tesla, is designed to be an ideal assistant for the elderly, offering a range of services to make their daily lives easier. This advanced robot is capable of tasks like safe cooking assistance, reminding seniors to take their medication, and providing interactive companionship, all of which contribute to enhancing the quality of life and independence for those living at home. Optimus is positioned as a valuable aid in supporting elderly individuals in managing their daily routines and maintaining a higher level of autonomy.
#teslabot #tesla #optimus #humanoid #elderly
Very interesting! I wish I could count on one of those robots for my years to come. Hahaha!
It will be out within a decade and fairly common.
However, those interested in having an Optimus robot in their home will need to wait until 2026, when mass production is expected to begin. In addition to the wait, potential buyers will need to budget between USD20,000 and USD30,000 for the purchase of the robot. Elon Musk has also stated that while the price range may seem steep, it is expected to decrease over time, making the robot more affordable and accessible to a broader audience in the future. The price is projected to be lower than that of a car, further indicating its potential for widespread adoption.
Tesla has described Optimus as a "human companion" with a focus on safely assisting with a variety of household tasks, including those that involve caring for the elderly. Examples of tasks that Optimus can perform include picking up packages, watering plants, and other domestic chores. These functions showcase how Optimus can be integrated into daily life, particularly in helping elderly individuals manage their home responsibilities and provide them with valuable support.
Initially, there were speculations that the Optimus robot would be designed exclusively for use in Tesla's auto manufacturing plants, with no indication of it being developed for residential purposes. However, Elon Musk clarified on the X platform that Tesla plans to produce a limited number of humanoid robots for internal use within the company starting in 2025. This statement reassures that the development of Optimus is intended to expand beyond industrial applications and into home environments in the near future.
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So, what exactly is First Principles Thinking? It’s a form of reasoning where you begin by identifying and understanding the fundamental principles of a problem or situation. Instead of relying on analogies or conventional wisdom, this approach encourages you to start with what you know to be true and reason up from there. By dissecting problems into their most basic, self-evident truths, you’re able to construct new solutions or insights that aren’t limited by current assumptions or beliefs.
Easier said then done. We should e-mail this to our representatives (Congress, Parliment, Knesset; whichever is our Country's flavor of government structure).
Thanks for this Task. I think I will do that today! Note to self...
🧵 1/ Microsoft has confirmed that Outlook crashes if too many emails are open at once, with the issue occurring when more than 60 emails are open. To avoid this, users are advised to keep the number of open emails under 60.
🧵 2/ Alternatively, adjusting the Windows registry to increase the process quota is possible, but Microsoft warns this may cause system instability. #Outlook #TechIssues #Microsoft
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🧵 1/ Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice has proposed a new law to protect individuals who discover and responsibly report security vulnerabilities from criminal charges.
🧵 2/ To qualify for protection, the person must intend to identify a vulnerability and report it to the responsible party. The law also allows exceptions for data eavesdropping and modification if done legitimately.
🧵 3/ Malicious data espionage could lead to prison sentences ranging from three months to five years. #Cybersecurity #Legislation #DataProtection
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🧵 1/ The Canadian government has banned ByteDance and its subsidiary TikTok Technology Canada from operating in the country, citing national security concerns.
🧵 2/ However, this decision does not ban the popular app for the general public, though government employees are prohibited from installing TikTok on their devices. TikTok's Canadian office will close, leading to the loss of local jobs.
🧵 3/ ByteDance plans to appeal the decision. #TikTok #Canada #NationalSecurity
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No More Frost: Scientists Unveil Long-Lasting Anti-Freeze Technology
The optimized surface completely prevents frost formation on flat areas for up to one week.
One day, we might finally say goodbye to defrosting freezers or scraping frost off slippery surfaces. Engineers at Northwestern University have developed a new strategy to prevent frost formation before it even starts.
#antifreeze #science #technology #frost
In a new study, the researchers discovered that tweaking the texture of any surface and adding a thin layer of graphene oxide prevents 100% frost from forming on surfaces for one week or potentially even longer. This is 1,000 times longer than current, state-of-the-art anti-frosting surfaces.
As an added bonus, the new scalable surface design also is resistant to cracks, scratches, and contamination.
By incorporating the textured surface into infrastructure, the researchers imagine companies and government agencies could save billions of dollars per year in averted maintenance costs and energy inefficiencies.
The research was recently published in the journal Science Advances.
Unwanted frost accumulation is a major concern across industrial, residential, and government sectors,” said Northwestern’s Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park, who led the study. “For example, the 2021 power crisis in Texas cost $195 billion in damages, resulting directly from frost, ice, and extreme cold conditions for more than 160 hours. Thus, it is critical to develop anti-frosting techniques, which are robust for long periods of time in extreme environmental conditions. It is also necessary to develop anti-frosting methods which are easy to fabricate and implement. We designed our hybrid anti-frosting technique with all of these needs in mind. It can prevent frosting for potentially weeks at a time and is scalable, durable, and easily fabricated through 3D printing.”
Park is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and a faculty affiliate of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy and the International Institute for Nanotechnology.
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This could save a lot of money and energy during cold climates. It feels like soon science will have a solution for all problems, the only thing is if I'll live long enough to see all that
Bitcoin just surpassed $77,000 for a new all-time high
The leading cryptocurrency has gained significant momentum following Donald Trump's election win
Bitcoin surged to a new all-time high of just over $77,000 on Friday, continuing its record-breaking streak following Donald Trump’s reelection as President of the United States. The strong support from the crypto community for Trump’s return to the White House is fueling Bitcoin’s upward momentum, making its rise appear unstoppable as of now.
#bitcoin #crypto #trump #investing #digitalasset
Bitcoin’s rise proves how political events can give investors confidence. Trump’s policies may attract support no doubt but Bitcoin is still volatile, how will they encourage people in spite of that
To be substantiated, there has to be follow through. We will see if that happens with the Trump administration.
Time will tell then, thanks man you're very informative
And Here I am awaiting the $100K bull run in 2025. I believe it Bitcoin will surpass 100K it's 2025 because politics around it is good although crypto doesn't need a president anyways. It's good for adoption I think
Bitcoin doesnt have much utility but Wall Street (and soon governments) is all over it.
exactly 🤯 and that's why it might just be way bigger or no longer be Decentralized as its initial founder's intent was
The leading cryptocurrency hit a record high of $77,239 at approximately 3:00 PM on Friday. According to crypto tracking website CoinGecko, the top cryptocurrency has surged 113,011% since 2013. This means a $1000 investment in Bitcoin back then would now be worth over $1 million.
Bitcoin’s price is expected to rise further, showing heightened optimism and enthusiasm among investors due to recent political developments. The momentum shows no signs of slowing — among seasoned traders and newcomers alike. Some even anticipate when the top cryptocurrency will cross the $100,000 level.
Investors poured over $1B into Bitcoin ETFs in one day
Following Trump’s reelection, investors are pouring funds into the spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds). On November 7th alone, U.S. Bitcoin ETFs recorded unprecedented inflows of $1.3 billion. BlackRock (BLK
+0.27%
), the world’s largest asset manager, led with over $1 billion directed into its Bitcoin ETF, while Fidelity’s FBTC saw an inflow of $190 million, according to data from Farside.
What specific policies or factors associated with Trump’s presidency might be driving the crypto community’s support for Bitcoin, do you think?
Is it mostly hype or is there something else also?
What will happen to America, EVs and Tesla with Donald Trump in charge
#tesla #trump #ev
!summarize
Well in my opinion, because of what Elon did to help, he will not put as much sanctions as he wanted to. But China will still dominate since they've got resources
I think EV growth will slow since he supports fossil fuels. Tesla may benefit from fewer rules, but the EV market might grow slower without government help and support.
Google unveiled its new AI chip, Trillium which is faster and more energy efficient than the old one. They really want compete with Nvidia’s H200 GPUs.
Standard Chartered believes the crypto market could grow 4 times by 2026, with Bitcoin hitting $200k and Ethereum $10k, and it'll all be because of Trump's new regulations.
For Crypto Defi Adoption Rules Are Needed
DeFi needs rules to grow. Agne Linge says regulations will help make it safer. Without them, people may not trust it fully. So what regulations do people really need though 🤔
ChatGPT monthly usage may now rival Google Chrome
A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools — and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting the AI chatbot, and its figures are rivaling browser market share. It can only be compared to Google Chrome figures in terms of monthly users, which is estimated to be around 3.45 billion.
#chatgpt #technology #chrome #google #internet
I am not surprised about this at all, the moment I heard Search GPT I knew Google was toast. If Google doesn't respond fast with something way more innovative, OpenAI will keep taking more of its revenue
Google is but they are being exposed. We need a lot more search engines to pop up (AI driven).
Actually, we need that on Leo also.
Yes that's a great idea Task, we get AI on Leo, we can join the AI hype party and advertise the shit out of this platform 🎉
Statistics from Similarweb indicate that ChatGPT saw a 17.2% month-over-month (MoM) growth and a 115.9% year-over-year (YoY) traffic growth. Some highlights that spurned the ChatGPT growth during 2024 include its parent company, OpenAI, updating its web address from a subdomain, chat.openai.com, to a main domain, chatgpt.com. The tool especially saw a surge of traffic in May 2024, when it hit a 2.2-billion-visit milestone, and has been growing ever since, according to Similarweb researcher David F. Carr.
While ChatGPT has had an infamous presence in the technology industry since November 2022, OpenAI, continues to flesh out its product with new versions, features, and supplementary applications, or GPTs, to keep users interested. Recently, the company introduced ChatGPT Search, an in-house search engine feature that allows users to receive real-time answers to queries, such as sports scores, breaking news, and stock quotes.
Many note how the generative AI tool has come full circle to offer services very similar to the industry its intended to displace, Google Search. Overall, the web-based versions of ChatGPT would still rely on browsers to exist. In comparison, Google’s Chrome browser has a solid market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024. It has seen minimal growth YoY but has grown 45.35% in the last 5 years, according to Statscounter.
Other recent news indicates that OpenAI has purchased the domain name Chat.com; however, there is no word on what the company plans to do with this product.
Meanwhile, other AI tools continue to see traffic and growth, despite not being at the same level as ChatGPT. Despite recent plagiarism claims, the Perplexity chatbot has seen 90.8 million visits in October, a 25.5% MoM growth and 199.2% YoY growth. Google’s Gemini Chatbot saw 291.6 million visits in October, a 6.2% MoM growth and 19% YoY growth after the company introduced a new ChromeOS update that brought new AI features to its Chromebooks.
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damn people are really Using AI😳 look how quickly it's catching up to tools like Google Chrome. The future is pure Gold with AI
Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no, actually
Nir Eisikovits - Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is already here, it is indispensable, and people who are bearish on it harm themselves.
#ai #technology #unitedstates #armsrace #future
In the business world, AI advocates tell companies and workers that they will fall behind if they fail to integrate generative AI into their operations. In the sciences, AI advocates promise that AI will aid in curing hitherto intractable diseases.
In higher education, AI promoters admonish teachers that students must learn how to use AI or risk becoming uncompetitive when the time comes to find a job.
And, in national security, AI’s champions say that either the nation invests heavily in AI weaponry, or it will be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis the Chinese and the Russians, who are already doing so.
One great story every day
The argument across these different domains is essentially the same: The time for AI skepticism has come and gone. The technology will shape the future, whether you like it or not. You have the choice to learn how to use it or be left out of that future. Anyone trying to stand in the technology’s way is as hopeless as the manual weavers who resisted the mechanical looms in the early 19th century.
In the past few years, my colleagues and I at UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Center have been studying the ethical questions raised by the widespread adoption of AI, and I believe the inevitability argument is misleading.
History and hindsight
In fact, this claim is the most recent version of a deterministic view of technological development. It’s the belief that innovations are unstoppable once people start working on them. In other words, some genies don’t go back in their bottles. The best you can do is harness them to your good purposes.
This deterministic approach to tech has a long history. It’s been applied to the influence of the printing press, as well as to the rise of automobiles and the infrastructure they require, among other developments.
vintage cars mix with traffic in a small city street
The dominance of automobiles and the infrastructure that supports them over many decades only seems inevitable in hindsight. Bbeachy2001/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
But I believe that when it comes to AI, the technological determinism argument is both exaggerated and oversimplified.
AI in the field(s)
Consider the contention that businesses can’t afford to stay out of the AI game. In fact, the case has yet to be made that AI is delivering significant productivity gains to the firms that use it. A report in The Economist in July 2024 suggests that so far, the technology has had almost no economic impact.
AI’s role in higher education is also still very much an open question. Though universities have, in the past two years, invested heavily in AI-related initiatives, evidence suggests they may have jumped the gun.
The technology can serve as an interesting pedagogical tool. For example, creating a Plato chatbot that lets students have a text conversation with a bot posing as Plato is a cool gimmick.
But AI is already starting to displace some of the best tools teachers have for assessment and for developing critical thinking, such as writing assignments. The college essay is going the way of the dinosaurs as more teachers give up on the ability to tell whether their students are writing their papers themselves. What’s the cost-benefit argument for giving up on writing, an important and useful traditional skill?
In the sciences and in medicine, the use of AI seems promising. Its role in understanding the structure of proteins, for example, will likely be significant for curing diseases. The technology is also transforming medical imaging and has been helpful in accelerating the drug discovery process.
But the excitement can become exaggerated. AI-based predictions about which cases of COVID-19 would become severe have roundly failed, and doctors rely excessively on the technology’s diagnostic ability, often against their own better clinical judgment. And so, even in this area, where the potential is great, AI’s ultimate impact is unclear.
In retrospect, using AI to help diagnose COVID-19 patients was problematic.
In national security, the argument for investing in AI development is compelling. Since the stakes can be high, the argument that if the Chinese and the Russians are developing AI-driven autonomous weapons, the United States can’t afford to fall behind, has real purchase.
But a complete surrender to this form of reasoning, though tempting, is likely to lead the U.S. to overlook the disproportionate impact of these systems on nations that are too poor to participate in the AI aRMs race. The major powers could deploy the technology in conflicts in these nations. And, just as significantly, this argument de-emphasizes the possibility of collaborating with adversaries on limiting military AI systems, favoring arms race over arms control.
One step at a time
Surveying the potential significance and risks of AI in these different domains merits some skepticism about the technology. I believe that AI should be adopted piecemeal and with a nuanced approach rather than subject to sweeping claims of inevitability. In developing this careful take, there are two things to keep in mind:
First, companies and entrepreneurs working on artificial intelligence have an obvious interest in the technology being perceived as inevitable and necessary, since they make a living from its adoption. It’s important to pay attention to who is making claims of inevitability, and why.
Second, it’s worth taking a lesson from recent history. Over the past 15 years, smartphones and the social media apps that run on them came to be seen as a fact of life – a technology as transformative as it is inevitable.
Then data started emerging about the mental health harms they cause teens, especially young girls. school districts across the United States started to ban phones to protect the attention spans and mental health of their students. And some people have reverted to using flip phones as a quality of life change to avoid smartphones.
After a long experiment with the mental health of kids, facilitated by claims of technological determinism, Americans changed course. What seemed fixed turned out to be alterable. There is still time to avoid repeating the same mistake with artificial intelligence, which potentially could have larger consequences for society.
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i believe it's inevitable. Rushing into widespread use without fully understanding the risks could lead to unforeseen problems for all of us. Just like what happened with smartphones.
ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes
Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters'
Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters’ information diets, even approximate numbers are interesting to think about. For instance, OpenAI has stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go look somewhere else.
#chatgpt #election #ai #news #deepfake
That's crazy. How might ChatGPT's approach to handling election-related content impact future elections?
How should these platform handle it?
It is based upon the information put in along with the algos. Funny how fakenews has a way of being only on one side and then proving to be true later.
It didn’t just give them a cold shoulder, but recommended some trusted news sources like Reuters and the Associated Press. ChatGPT gave this type of “I’m just an AI, go read the actual news” response over 2 million times on Election Day and the day after, OpenAI explained in an update to a blog post on its elections approach.
In the month leading up to election, ChatGPT sent around a million people to CanIVote.org when they asked questions specific to voting. And interestingly, it also rejected some 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates over the same period.
For comparison, Perplexity, the AI search engine, made a major push to promote its own election information hub, resulting in some 4 million page views, the company claimed (per Bloomberg).
It’s difficult to say whether these numbers are low or high. Certainly they are nowhere near leaders in the news: CNN’s digital properties saw around 67 million unique visitors on Election Day and a similar amount the day after.
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Fintechs Upstart and Toast soar on earnings
Wall Street applauded results from fintech companies Upstart and Toast.
Upstart, which uses artificial intelligence to inform online lending decisions, soared 46% on Friday, its best day in over three years. Toast, which sells payments technology to restaurants, jumped 14%, closing at its highest since 2021.
Both companies reported better-than-expected results, sparking the rallies.
#upstart #toast #technology #fintech
Upstart's revenue jumped 20% in the third quarter to $162 million, easily beating analyst estimates. CEO David Girouard said on the company's earnings call that, "we're in growth mode."
Toast is still well off its pandemic highs of 2021, but the stock has now more than doubled this year. The company's adjusted earnings forecast of $90 million to $100 million for the current quarter sailed past estimates.
The two stocks were part of a huge rally on Wall Street this week that followed Donald Trump's election victory on Tuesday night. All three major indexes closed at records, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq finishing the week up 5.7%, its second-best week of the year.
Within fintech, companies tied to crypto were some of the top performers, after candidates funded by the crypto industry won races up and down the ballot.
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Do you have any thought on how might Upstart’s AI lending model impact the future of fintech in the lending space?
Will any defi platform look at similar solutions?
Tesla's social media posts falsely implied that its cars are robotaxis, NHTSA warns
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warned Tesla that its online posts may mislead drivers into thinking its cars are robotaxis.
Tesla has falsely suggested in social media posts that its cars are autonomous, potentially misleading and endangering drivers, according to a warning from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
#tesla #robotaxis #socialmedia #autonomoy
"Tesla's X (Twitter) account has re-posted or endorsed postings that exhibit disengaged driver behavior," Gregory Magno, the head of the NHTSA, wrote to Tesla's board in an email in May that was made public on Friday. "Tesla's postings conflict with its stated messaging that the driver is to maintain continued control over the dynamic driving task."
Magno warned that viewers of Tesla's online communications, including posts on X, may expect a car with the company's Full Self-Driving Supervised, or FSD, system to have the capabilities of a robotaxi even though they require human supervision, meaning a driver ready to steer or brake at any time.
Tesla has until Dec. 18 to respond to NHTSA's letter, which also included requests for extensive information about the company's cars and FSD-related technology. A failure to respond could result in a maximum of $135.8 million in penalties. The company can also ask for an extension.
The NHTSA is investigating possible safety defects in Tesla's FSD option, a partially automated driving system. The latest probe followed a series of Tesla collisions that involved the use of FSD within 30 seconds of impact. In one instance, a Tesla driver using FSD fatally struck a pedestrian.
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What actions could NHTSA take if Tesla continues to make these claims on social media?
Dont know what type of mandate they have
OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time
OpenAI's latest AI models are shockingly bad at being right.
OpenAI has released a new benchmark, dubbed "SimpleQA," that's designed to measure the accuracy of the output of its own and competing artificial intelligence models.
In doing so, the AI company has revealed just how bad its latest models are at providing correct answers. In its own tests, its cutting edge o1-preview model, which was released last month, scored an abysmal 42.7 percent success rate on the new benchmark.
#openai #simpleqa #ai #technology
In other words, even the cream of the crop of recently announced large language models (LLMs) is far more likely to provide an outright incorrect answer than a right one — a concerning indictment, especially as the tech is starting to pervade many aspects of our everyday lives.
Competing models, like Anthropic's, scored even lower on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark, with its recently released Claude-3.5-sonnet model getting only 28.9 percent of questions right. However, the model was far more inclined to reveal its own uncertainty and decline to answer — which, given the damning results, is probably for the best.
Worse yet, OpenAI found that its own AI models tend to vastly overestimate their own abilities, a characteristic that can lead to them being highly confident in the falsehoods they concoct.
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OpenAI Buys Porn Domain for Huge Sum
Hot AI singles in your area.
We already knew that OpenAI had a lot of money to throw around. But even for the Sam Altman-led outfit, the money it spent on a — how shall we put this? — spicy domain is staggering.
And hilariously, the purchase makes OpenAI the proud new owner of a domain — Chat.com — that once belonged to an adult video cam and chat room website, as first spotted by PC Gamer.
#ai #porn #openai #samaltman #technology #chatcom
According to an archived version of the site, it previously hosted video chats in rooms with names like "Sexy," "Fantasy," "Tease," and "Foot Fetish."
"Unlike other free chat sites, all you have to do is click the Enter button and start chatting immediately," a read a notice on the now-defunct service, with "no registration required and no need to download or install any software."
Instead of allowing people to show each other their private parts, the domain now sends visitors straight to ChatGPT — an unsurprising development, given its new owner.
From OpenAI's point of view, the acquisition does make a certain amount of sense; the company has an abysmal track record when it comes to catchy or memorable branding, so Chat.com is — in theory, at least — a savvy buy.
It's unclear exactly what OpenAI paid for the domain, but it sounds like a lot. In a LinkedIn post, its previous owner Dharmesh Shah, who bought the domain for $15.5 million in 2023, revealed only that he got a lot more than what he had originally purchased it for.
As Shah put it in a tweet responding to Altman's unceremonious announcement, the new owner of the domain is "exactly who you'd think."
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Haha didnt know that. Can this taint OpenAI somehow or is it to unknown for the general public to react?
Period Tracking App Refuses To Disclose Data to American Authorities
The team behind menstrual health and period tracking app Clue has said it will not disclose users' data to American authorities, following Donald Trump's reelection.
#technology #application #donaldtrump #data #period
The message comes in response to concerns that during Trump's second presidency, abortion bans that followed the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022 will worsen and states will attempt to increase menstrual surveillance in order to further restrict access to terminations.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has blocked a bill in the state that would have banned law enforcement from enforcing search warrants for menstrual data stored in tracking apps on mobile phones or other electronic devices, according to the Houston Chronicle. And other states have passed or attempted to pass bills that would require medical care facilities and providers to report why women received abortions, as well as other personal information.
Newsweek has reached out to Clue, the Trump campaign and Youngkin for comment via email.
In a statement on TikTok, female and male staff members at Clue, based in Berlin, stand together with arms crossed, along with a text on screen that reads: "We have never and will never disclose any member's private health data to any authority. If we are ever subpoenaed, we will not comply."
Clue's video has since gone viral on TikTok and gained 160,000 likes, more than 6,000 bookmarks, and nearly 1,500 comments.
In a statement online yesterday from Clue, CEO Rhiannon White said, "Clue was created to give you the ability to build your own cycle health record and to be able to use it to gain invaluable insights to help give you agency when it comes to your menstrual and reproductive health.
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Windows Notepad is about to get way more useful
Microsoft is bringing AI capabilities to its simplistic Notepad app, which is known for its plain text functions, such as saving in .txt files.
The new feature, called Rewrite will allow you to generate alternative text to fit your specific needs. You’ll be able to modify the text to be longer, shorter, or to be written in a certain tone or format. The feature will generate three variations for you to select, and you will also have the option to retry if none of the results meet your standards.
#windows #notepad #ai #desktop #textediting
The next time you go under the knife, there’s a good chance a robot will hold the scalpel
Two of the most fascinating topics I’ve covered in this newsletter are AI’s transformative effects in healthcare and how large language models have reignited progress in robotics. Today’s edition brings these together: I’m talking about AI-powered robotic surgery.
#ai #technology #robot #surgery #healthcare
I attended a Johns Hopkins University panel where researchers specialized in this area predicted that, in large part thanks to LLMs, autonomy is poised to become “a ubiquitous part of surgery” in the near or at least mid-term future. Similar to how vehicle autonomy began with automating some capabilities, they said autonomous robots will initially take on select tasks that support human surgeons. They also had no doubt we’ll see surgeries routinely performed fully autonomously by robots in our lifetime.
LLMs change the game
After hitting a wall with its previous approach of trying to pre-program robots to make specific movements, the robotics field has found a way forward with the same approach that’s made LLMs so successful. Axel Krieger, a mechanical engineering researcher focused on the development of surgical systems, spoke on the panel about new research he and his associates would be sharing this week about how the Transformer—the same one that powers tools like ChatGPT, only with robot action as the output—can be used to overcome limitations surrounding how a surgical robotic system called Da Vinci learns tasks via imitation learning. The team demonstrated its findings through the successful execution of three fundamental surgical tasks: tissue manipulation, needle handling, and knot-tying.
Overall, robotic surgery research has followed the trends of AI, moving from a “model-based approach” to a “learning-based approach” that enables surgical robots to learn via demonstrations rather than be designed with specific domain expertise. These models also improve over time with more data and can scale to accomplish different kinds of tasks.
The downside of the learning approach, however, is that it’s more opaque and unpredictable than the model approach. Russell Taylor, another researcher on the panel, argued that the introduction of these capabilities into actual clinical use will have to be gradual, with clear assurances that the robot will not harm the patient. He also argued that robots should only be used if they have a clear advantage, either enabling surgeons to perform tasks better and more safely, or making it possible to do something that wasn’t possible before. If these robots are further proven to be more consistent and precise, it could be a game-changer for safety and better surgery outcomes: human surgeons are human after all, which means they get fatigued and make mistakes.
The future of surgery
Already, surgeries like lasik eye surgery are performed with a high degree of autonomy, but research is starting to show promise for even more complicated surgeries. In another study, Krieger and team found that a Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR), which is designed for complex soft tissue surgeries, can actually outperform expert surgeons on some key metrics.
“We have fewer of these hesitancy events when we misplace a needle and have to pull it back out, so significantly better in these errors. And also in the spacing (of the sutures)—much more consistent,” he said.
The goal behind AI-powered robotic surgery is two-fold: make surgery less invasive for patients and meet the growing demand. According to data shared during the panel, there is already a shortage of surgeons and the caseload is expected to double as the aging population grows. Robots could augment critical portions of surgery with better precision and increasing autonomy. Each year, 310 million major surgeries are performed. In 2023, about four million were performed with robotic assistance, and this rate is expected to grow by 18% annually.
This doesn’t mean surgeons will be out of work anytime soon, but their role will likely change.
“The more likely scenario is that the surgeon will remain in overall strategic control while delegating specific tasks to the robot while the surgeon supervises,” said Taylor. “As AI algorithms become more powerful, the delegated tasks will become more sophisticated.”
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On Election Day, ChatGPT told 2 million users to go to reliable news sites like Reuters for information. It even blocked 250,000 fake image requests which I have already posted about in this threadcast. What's impressive here is that people are trusting AI to guide them through big events like this.
AI is really starting to change the way we get news.
#AI #Elections
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A painting of Alan Turing, made by an AI robot named Ai-Da, just sold for $1.1 million! Ai-Da, inspired by Ada Lovelace, used its programming to create this portrait, showing how tech is changing art. All I see is Robots making art – and people loving it!
My only opinion is that artists have to start utilizing AI in a smart and strategic way because it's here to stay and undeniably cool.
#AIPainting #ArtAndTech
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A new AI startup, CTGT, co-founded by UCSD alum Cyril Gorlla, aims to make AI more accurate and reliable by stopping “AI hallucinations” (when AI gets things wrong). With support from Mark Cuban, CTGT is building tools to improve AI’s clarity, which could help in fields like healthcare.
#AI #TechInnovation
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OpenAI's lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng, is leaving after 7 years. She helped build safety systems for AI but feels it's time for a change. Is Google behind?
ChipMOS Technologies Reports Decline in October Revenue
ChipMOS Technologies, a leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services, reported a decline in revenue for October 2024, registering NT$1,784.9 million (US$55.8 million). This reflects a month-over-month decrease of 5.5% and a year-over-year drop of 9.4%, aligning with the company’s earlier predictions of fluctuating market demands for DRAM and NAND flash. The company continues to navigate a challenging market environment characterized by conservative ordering and inventory adjustments.
#chipmos #revenue #technology #semiconductor #earnings
CEO Jensen Huang Just Delivered Fantastic News for Nvidia Investors
A new era of AI could be just around the corner.
As the market eagerly awaits earnings from artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), investors will be happy to hear that the company's CEO, Jensen Huang, has announced a new partnership with Lenovo that will accelerate sales in a key area: enterprise.
#lenovo #nvidia #jensenhuang #technology #enterprise #semiconductor
The lion's share of Nvidia's revenue is derived from companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Amazon. The tech giants use its hardware to build gargantuan server farms that run their consumer-facing AI products like Gemini and Meta AI. These companies have poured billions of dollars into Nvidia's coffers and have no plans to stop in the near future. While they are great customers to have, there is always risk in relying on a relatively small customer base. Any one of them could decide to switch to another provider, like AMD, or develop their own chips in-house, as many are reported to be doing. Nvidia would be smart to greatly expand its reach beyond them.
That seems to be the aim of Nvidia's partnership with Lenovo. The two companies are teaming up to create a new platform called "Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with Nvidia," aimed at enterprise clients of all sizes, large and small. It is essentially a custom AI solution tailored to each individual business. If Huang's promise holds true, it will help businesses vastly improve their efficiency and, most importantly, their profitability.
Given that this platform will be comprised of Nvidia products at every level -- from its flagship Blackwell chips to its networking hardware to its custom software -- the platform could be a boon to Nvidia's bottom line if it takes off.
A key component here is what is known as "agentic AI." Up to this point, the generative AI we've seen is great at creating content, analyzing content, and relies heavily on direct human guidance. Agentic AI, on the other hand, can reason in more complex environments, and, critically, it can actually do things. Think of an AI marketing tool that could not only craft a whole marketing plan and the creative materials involved, but also deploy it across the company's media channels. It could continue to monitor the campaign, adjusting it in real time to be more effective.
The platform Nvidia and Lenovo are launching will focus on providing this sort of agentic AI. The possibilities for increased efficiency and cost-cutting are pretty profound, making it an extremely valuable product and a real potential moneymaker for Nvidia.
The product's success will be directly tied to agentic AI being able to deliver the value it promises to. If it does, this could be a massive new chapter in the AI story.
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Nvidia's new partnership with Lenovo could change how businesses use AI. If it works, this could be huge for both companies. Now most companies are trying to adopt AI in some way even Meta with WhatsApp and it's other platforms
The Beatles’ final song, restored using AI, is up for a Grammy
The Beatles’ “Now and Then” was finally finished with some AI help. This old demo by John Lennon was too messy to fix back then. But with new tech, they cleaned it up, and now it’s up for Grammys in 2025! Competing with big names like Beyoncé? Kind of surreal.
#TheBeatles #GrammyAwards
What does Trump's election mean for the TikTok ban?
As TikTok stares down an impending federal ban, Donald Trump's win in the presidential election could be a lifeline. It's a plot twist for the embattled,
As TikTok stares down an impending federal ban, Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election could be a lifeline.
#tiktok #election #trump #socialmedia #china #ban
It’s a plot twist for the embattled, Chinese-owned social media company. During Trump’s last presidency, the president-elect had been the one to initiate the calls to ban TikTok, which only petered out because he didn’t win his first attempt at re-election in 2020. But during his 2024 campaign, Trump took a different approach. He wrote in all-caps on his platform Truth Social, “FOR ALL OF THOSE THAT WANT TO SAVE TIK TOK IN AMERICA, VOTE TRUMP!”
President Biden signed off on a bill in April that gives ByteDance, the Chinese parent company to TikTok, nine months to sell the platform. If ByteDance fails to complete a sale — which is a likely outcome — it will be banned on January 19, 2025, the day before Trump’s inauguration. However, ByteDance has the option of pursuing a 90-day extension, which would put the ball in Trump’s court.
Trump’s reasoning for his support of a TikTok ban in 2020 echoes the current bipartisan sentiment among legislators who pushed for this legislation. At the time, Trump raised concerns about the Chinese Communist Party potentially gaining access to Americans’ data (while there has not been public evidence of the CCP accessing American TikTok users’ data, there has been proof that ByteDance accessed TikTok user data). Now, the president-elect appears more concerned with how a TikTok ban would benefit Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.
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SkyWater Technology’s Q3 2024: Record Revenue Growth
Skywater Technology Inc ( (SKYT) ) has released its Q3 earnings. Here is a breakdown of the information Skywater Technology Inc presented to its investors.
SkyWater Technology Inc., a U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturer, specializes in technology realization services, serving diverse markets including aerospace, defense, and biomedical sectors.
#skynet #technology #earnings #biomedical
In its third quarter of 2024, SkyWater Technology reported record revenues of $93.8 million, marking a 31% year-over-year increase, alongside improved gross margins and a notable shift to profitability.
Key highlights from the report include a significant 847% increase in tools revenue, contributing to the overall revenue surge. The company’s operational efficiencies and strategic execution on a major aerospace and defense program boosted gross margins to 21.6% on a GAAP basis. Additionally, the company reported a GAAP net income of $1.5 million, reversing a loss from the previous year, with an adjusted EBITDA of $11.0 million, up 33% year-over-year.
SkyWater continues to expand its capabilities through customer-funded capital expenditures and strategic partnerships, as demonstrated by a new supply agreement with NanoDx and involvement in the Microelectronics Commons projects under the CHIPS Act.
Looking forward, SkyWater Technology anticipates sequential growth in its Advanced Technology Services business in Q4 2024, with a positive outlook for 2025, including expected growth in wafer services and continued margin improvements.
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Monarch Tractor lays off 10% in restructuring towards software and licensing
Monarch Tractor has laid off around 10% of its workforce as part of a restructuring that will see it prioritize non-agricultural customers, license its autonomous technology, and boost sales of its AI-powered farm management software, TechCrunch has learned.
#monarchtractor #software #layoffs #agriculture
Around 35 employees were cut this week by the Livermore, California-based autonomous electric tractor startup that has raised a total of $220 million since it was founded in 2018. Some Monarch workers told TechCrunch they were let go without severance. It’s the second cut this year; Monarch previously laid off around 15% of its workforce in July.
CEO Praveen Penmetsa told TechCrunch in an interview the company decided to restructure after a slower-than-expected third quarter, and despite raising $133 million in July from the likes of Foxconn and agri-food tech impact firm Astanor. Penmetsa said he was uncertain if employees were let go without severance, but that the company has been trying to help out laid-off workers on a case-by-case basis.
“All of this happened pretty quickly,” Penmetsa said, referring to the recent crash of California’s vineyards, which made up a bulk of Monarch’s early customers. That development, plus an ongoing pullback in agri-tech investing, left Penmetsa and his team looking at other options.
“The industry has slowed down on acquisition of new equipment and new solutions, especially in the core farming sectors,” Penmetsa said. “But in the meantime, as a platform company, we also have some very exciting non-agriculture opportunities that started sprouting because of our success in ag.”
Bitcoin To $200,000, Ethereum To $10,000 And Crypto Market Cap To 4X By End Of 2025, Says Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered projects a fourfold increase in the digital assets market cap, reaching $10 trillion by the U.S. mid-term elections in late 2026.
Standard Chartered projects a fourfold increase in the digital assets market cap, reaching $10 trillion by the U.S. mid-term elections in late 2026.
#bitcoin #ethereum #crypto #standardchartered #elections #digitalassets
What Happened: According to a new note from Geoffrey Kendrick, Head of Research at Standard Chartered, this growth forecast is based on anticipated regulatory shifts following a projected Republican sweep in the recent election cycle, which could lead to mainstream adoption and real-world use cases for digital assets.
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“For me, the Trump-ublican sweep means Digital Assets are finally going to come of age,” Kendrick commented, expressing confidence that favorable regulatory policies will drive adoption across the asset class. He added, "I look for the entire asset class to 4X by the time of the US mid-terms in late 2026."
Standard Chartered highlight several factors contributing to this growth projection.
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Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down
Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation.
In an update posted to its website, Exosonic said it was unable to find the traction necessary to continue operations.
#exosonic #technology #airtravel #uav #bankruptcy
“Although the founders and team still believe in the need/desire for quiet supersonic flight and supersonic drones for the US Department of Defense, without further customer support for either concept, the company cannot sustain the cash needs to make further advancements,” the update says.
Exosonic was founded in 2019 by Norris Tie, a propulsion engineer who cut his teeth at primes like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin; at the latter company, he reportedly worked on the low-boom X-59 aircraft for NASA. Exosonic joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 cohort and went on to raise over $4.5 million from venture investors, including Soma Capital, Psion Capital, and Stellar Solutions. The startup also bagged several small grants from the U.S. Air Force under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
The company was making progress: It hit a major milestone earlier this year when it flew its first aircraft, a subscale variant of its supersonic UAV called EX-3M Trident, in a test flight in California. It also had two other vehicles under development: a supersonic airliner called Horizon and a larger UAV called Revenant.
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Broadcom's AI Breakthroughs Prompt Bullish Analyst Revisions
Broadcom (AVGO, Financial) has emerged as one of today's leading players in artificial intelligence, recently unveiling new AI developments that prompted analysts to revise their stock price forecasts to $199.8. This change in analyst sentiment followed CEO Hock Tan's discourse at the Digital X special event in Cologne, Germany, where he outlined Broadcom's strategy of tapping into AI inference solutions.
#broadcom #finance #ai #technology #hocktan
AI technology is expected to create massive advances in the sector in the area of AI inference, the capability of AI systems to make a prediction or draw some conclusion without specific outcomes previously determined to be achievable. For instance, this inference lets self-driving cars detect stop signs, which infers the real-world use of AI inference in self-driving automobiles, even though the automobiles have not been through specific routes before.
As a result, financial analysts have set higher stock price targets for Broadcom to demonstrate higher investor confidence in the company, particularly due to its new AI business venture. Furthermore, Broadcom is developing a new AI chip in partnership with OpenAI to enhance the deployment efficiency of AI models after training, which has put Broadcom in the radical vanguard of AI.
However, there are concerns with this growth, such as data sovereignty and another concern about the readiness of the world for semiconductors, where Taiwan alone accounts for 60% of the world's semiconductors and 90% of the advanced ones. These issues express the geopolitical and logistical risks associated with the semiconductor supply chain, something inherently important for Broadcom's growing AI endeavors.
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FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people's private information
The warning is a rare admission from the FBI about the threat from fake emergency data requests submitted by hackers with access to police email accounts.
The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to submit “emergency” data requests.
#hackers #fbi #data #fake #police
The FBI’s public notice filed this week is a rare admission from the federal government about the threat from fraudulent emergency data requests, a legal process designed to help police and federal authorities obtain information from companies to respond to immediate threats affecting someone’s life or property. The abuse of emergency data requests is not new, and has been widely reported in recent years. Now, the FBI warns that it saw an “uptick” around August in criminal posts online advertising access to or conducting fraudulent emergency data requests, and that it was going public for awareness.
“Cyber-criminals are likely gaining access to compromised US and foreign government email addresses and using them to conduct fraudulent emergency data requests to US based companies, exposing the personal information of customers to further use for criminal purposes,” reads the FBI’s advisory.
Police and law enforcement in the U.S. generally need some kind of legal justification to seek and obtain access to private data that companies store on their servers. Typically for a person’s private content, like their files, emails, or messages, police need to provide enough evidence of a possible crime before a U.S. court will issue a search warrant allowing the police to request that information from a private company. Police can issue subpoenas — which don’t require going to a court — requesting companies to access limited amounts of information about a user, such as their basic account information, like their username, account logins, email addresses, and phone numbers, and sometimes their approximate location.
There are also emergency requests, a procedure in which law enforcement can urgently seek a person’s information from a company in the event of an immediate risk, where there is no time to seek a court order.
It’s these emergency requests that federal authorities say some cybercriminals are abusing.
"Go Work For Another Company": Amazon Group Firm CEO To Employees Protesting End Of WFH523
Amazon employees protested the "return to office" policy and urged management to maintain remote work flexibility.
"Go Work For Another Company": Amazon Group Firm CEO To Employees Protesting End Of WFH523 Amazon employees protested the "return to office" policy and urged management to maintain remote work flexibility.
Over 500 Amazon Web Services (AWS) employees have petitioned the company to reconsider its new five-day in-office mandate, which is set to begin in January. In a letter to AWS CEO Matt Garman, 523 employees voiced opposition to the "return to office" policy and urged management to maintain remote work flexibility.
#amazon #remotework #technology #mployees
"AWS is not realizing its full potential with this mandate, and it is setting a discouraging path forward," the letter shared with The Seattle Times stated. "While flexible and remote work does have its challenges, AWS has always been a company that tackles problems in innovative, forward-thinking ways, rather than falling back on outdated solutions that worked in the past. The cloud computing industry might not exist today if we had held onto such restrictive thinking in our early days."
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy previously announced in a memo that the policy would begin on January 2, 2025. Prior to this change, Amazon required employees to be in the office three days a week, a shift that sparked protests as well. About 15 months after that initial mandate, Amazon is now expanding the requirement to restore pre-pandemic work norms.
The recent letter from AWS employees responds to Garman's comments at an AWS town hall, where he suggested employees who don't wish to comply with the new five-day rule could explore other job options. Last week, Garman reiterated this stance in an interview, expressing confidence in the policy and stating that most employees he spoke to are supportive of the change. Garman and Jassy have acknowledged that while there may be flexibility under the new policy, such as managers occasionally working from home for specific tasks, the core requirement remains in place.
AWS employees argued in the letter that Garman's comments do not align with their own experiences, claiming, "You are silencing critical perspectives and harming our culture and future." They also contended that Amazon's decision lacked data-backed analysis, contradicting one of Amazon's key principles, and noted that the policy might hinder Amazon's goal of becoming "Earth's best employer."
The mandate is expected to particularly affect employees who depend on remote work flexibility, such as those with disabilities, caregiving duties, or visa restrictions. The employees also suggested that the mandate may drive senior staff members who often have the credentials and financial flexibility to seek other roles away from Amazon, potentially impacting the collaborative culture the company aims to foster.
The new policy will make Amazon one of the few major tech companies in Seattle with such a stringent in-office requirement. Starbucks recently implemented a similar approach, requiring corporate employees to work from the office three days a week starting in January, with non-compliance leading to potential job changes.
n their letter, AWS employees reiterated their desire for Amazon to reconsider its stance, emphasizing, "Remote and flexible work represents an opportunity for Amazon to lead, not a threat. We want to work for leaders who see this moment as a chance to reinvent how we work."
Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said at an all-hands meeting on Tuesday that the plan to require employees to be in-office five days per week is not meant to force attrition or satisfy city leaders, as many employees have suggested, Reuters reported.
"A number of people I've seen theorized that the reason we were doing this is, it's a backdoor layoff, or we made some sort of deal with city or cities," said Jassy, according to a transcript of the
"I can tell you both of those are not true. You know, this was not a cost play for us. This is very much about our culture and strengthening our culture," he said.
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Ethereum Foundation Reveals $788M Crypto Holdings And New Conflict-Of-Interest Rules
The Ethereum Foundation just shared they’ve got around $970 million in their treasury, mostly in Ethereum (ETH). They’re careful with it, saving for tough times by selling some ETH when prices are high. They've also set stricter rules for employees to avoid conflicts of interest. Feels like they’re trying to keep things clear and steady.
#Ethereum #Crypto #Finance #Transparency #Sustainability #ConflictOfInterest
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Trump Media shares soar 15% after prez-elect says he won't sell, blasts 'market manipulators'
Trump owns nearly 115 million shares and has about a 53% stake in the Truth Social parent.
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group jumped on Friday after President-elect Donald Trump said he had no intention of selling his shares in the company, which owns his Truth Social media platform.
#trumpmedia #shares #donaldtrump #media
In a post on Truth Social, Trump rejected what he described as rumors that he was planning to sell shares a day after the stock slumped.
“There are fake, untrue, and probably illegal rumors and/or statements made by, perhaps, market manipulators or short sellers, that I am interested in selling shares of Truth,” Trump wrote.
“THOSE RUMORS OR STATEMENTS ARE FALSE. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF SELLING!,” Trump added.
Shares of the company closed 15% higher on Friday at $31.91 and hit a session high of $33.03.
The stock was briefly halted for volatility after Trump’s comments.
On Thursday, shares of the company slumped as speculative bets on Trump winning a second four-year term lost steam a day after his victory over Democrat Kamala Harris.
The stock rose 5.9% on Wednesday following Election Day on Tuesday.
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Trump Media gains post-election, even as Truth Social parent reports $19 million quarterly loss
The parent company of Donald Trump’s social networking site Truth Social lost $19.2 million in the last quarter, according to an earnings report released on the same day he won back the presidency.
Trump Media and Technology Group reported late Tuesday that much of that loss stemmed from more than $12 million in legal fees, along with a decline in revenue, according to the surprise Election Day earnings report. Its stock price surged Wednesday but that was more likely due to Trump’s defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris to retake the presidency than on its profit prospects.
Trump created the company after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Based in Sarasota, Florida, it has been losing money and struggling to raise revenue.
Revenue for the three-month period that ended on September 30 was just over $1 million, down nearly 6% from a year earlier. Trump Media, based in Sarasota, Florida, has lost more than $363 million so far this year.
Trump Media said some of its costs related to the launch of its new TV streaming service called Truth+.
CEO and former Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes said in a statement the company “continues to explore additional possibilities for growth” such as mergers with other companies that “would benefit from Trump Media technology and branding.”
The company said in a regulatory finding that its success depends in part on “the reputation and popularity of President Donald J. Trump.”
Zuckerberg Not Liable in Youth Mental Health Lawsuits
Zuckerberg Not Liable in Youth Mental Health Lawsuits
A federal judge said Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not personally liable in 25 lawsuits accusing his company of addicting children to social media.
#markzuckerberg #lawsuit #socialmedia #meta #mentalhealth
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California rejected accusations Thursday that Zuckerberg directed Meta's efforts to conceal from children the serious mental health risks of using Facebook and Instagram.
The plaintiffs called Meta's billionaire co-founder the "guiding spirit" behind alleged concealment efforts, saying he ignored repeated internal warnings about the risks and publicly downplayed them.
But the judge found a lack of specifics about what Zuckerberg did wrong, and said "control of corporate activity alone is insufficient" to establish liability. Her decision does not affect related claims against Meta itself.
The plaintiffs brought claims under the laws of 13 U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Previn Warren, a partner at Motley Rice representing the plaintiffs, said on Friday his clients will continue gathering evidence "to uncover the truth about how Big Tech has knowingly prioritized profits over the safety of our children."
The 25 lawsuits are among several hundred by children, their families and school districts seeking damages from Meta, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok and Snap's Snapchat over social media addiction.
Dozens of U.S. state attorneys general are pursuing similar cases against Meta, linking its social media platforms to anxiety, depression, insomnia, and interference with education and daily life.
The case is In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 22-md-03047.
Elon Musk's net worth surges past $300B as Tesla's market value crosses $1 trillion
Musk was worth $302 billion as of Friday, according to Forbes, which calculated his fortune by factoring in his stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
Elon Musk’s backing of President-elect Donald Trump has paid off handsomely as his net worth surged past the $300 billion mark on Friday — much of it due to Tesla’s market capitalization surpassing $1 trillion.
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Musk, who donated nearly $120 million to a pro-Trump super PAC, was worth $304 billion as of Friday, according to Forbes, which calculated his fortune by factoring in his 20% stake in Tesla as well as his estimated 42% equity in SpaceX.
In November 2020, around 75% of Musk’s wealth was derived from his stake in Tesla.
“Tesla and CEO Elon Musk are perhaps the biggest winners from the election result, and we believe Trump’s victory will help expedite regulatory approval of the company’s autonomous driving technology,” said Garrett Nelson, senior equity analyst at CFRA Research.
Under a Trump administration, Musk could push for favorable regulation of autonomous vehicles that Tesla plans and also get the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to hold off on potential enforcement actions involving the safety of Tesla’s current driver-assistance systems, a source told Reuters.
Musk is also the majority owner of xAI, the artificial intelligence startup that he founded last year. Musk’s stake in the company, which is in talks on a new funding round that could value the firm at as much as $40 billion, is 60%, according to Forbes.
Musk has crossed the $300 billion threshold before. In November 2021, Tesla’s stock reach an all-time high of $407 per share. But the company’s stock plummeted by as much as 72% — falling to $113.06 a share in January of last year.
On Friday, Tesla’s stock closed at $321.22 a share — up 8.2%.
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Nvidia CEO says there's 'no question' that we'll all be working alongside AI employees
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doubled down on his vision for "AI employees" in a recent interview.
Huang said he sees AI agents in all areas, including marketing and chip design.
The CEO said he believes AI agents will be specialized and rented out by other companies.
#technology #nvidia #jensenhuang #ai #robotics
Don't be surprised if your future coworker is an AI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently talked about why he thinks we'll all be working alongside "AI employees" eventually.
"There's no question we're gonna have AI employees of all kinds," Huang told the podcast "No Priors" in an episode published Thursday.
Huang said he sees AI employees taking on all kinds of roles, including in areas like marketing, chip design, and supply chain.
He believes the AI workers will be prompted the same way as human employees are today, such as by asking them to perform a mission, providing them with context, and engaging in back-and-forth conversations.
Huang is referring to a concept he's mentioned before. At a fireside chat with Wired in July, Huang talked about the concept of "digital agents" that would "augment every single job in the company."
A few weeks ago, Huang shared more on the idea in an episode of the "BG2" podcast. He talked about a future in which AIs will recruit other AIs to solve problems while existing in Slack channels with themselves and other humans.
The Nvidia CEO said that while this will change some jobs, it will also help secure employment. Huang said companies that use AI to become more productive will likely see better earnings or growth — and that's unlikely to lead to layoffs.
While some people might think SAAS platforms would be interrupted, Huang said in his recent podcast appearance that he thinks they're "sitting on a gold mine" of "flourishing agents" that specialize in various areas, collaborate with each other, and get rented out by other companies.
Huang said Nvidia would create an AI agent for Open USD and "totally imagines" chip design company Synopsys with rentable chip designers.
"I might rent a million Synopsis engineers to come and help me out and then go rent a million Cadence engineers to help me out," Huang said.
Other CEOs have painted a similar picture of AI employees joining the workforce.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan recently used the term "digital twins" to describe AI clones that attend meetings and write emails for employees so that they can do other things, like "go to the beach." Yuan said it could reduce the workweek to three or four days.
Such a future may seem far away, yet Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company's most recent earnings call that AI is already generating 25% of the company's code, which engineers then review and accept.
And while Huang argues the benefits to a company's business from AI workers would stave off layoffs, it's worth noting that cuts could still occur as companies make adjustments as the technology evolves.
Klarna's CEO received backlash in May after posting on social media that AI let his marketing team, which is "half the size it was last year," save $10 million while accomplishing more work.
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NASA astronauts won't say which one of them got sick after almost 8 months in space
Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday which one of them was sick.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday which one of them was sick.
#space #astronaut #spacestation #nasa
Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps publicly discussed their spaceflight for the first time since returning from the International Space Station on Oct. 25. They spent nearly eight months in orbit, longer than expected because of all the trouble with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule and rough weather, including Hurricane Milton.
Soon after their SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast, the three were taken to a hospital in nearby Pensacola along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who launched with them back in March.
One of the Americans ended up spending the night there for an undisclosed “medical issue.” NASA declined to say who was hospitalized or why, citing medical privacy.
When asked at Friday’s news conference which one had been sick, the astronauts refused to comment. Barratt, a doctor who specializes in space medicine, declined to even describe the symptoms that the unidentified astronaut had.
“Spaceflight is still something we don’t fully understand. We’re finding things that we don’t expect sometimes. This was one of those times and we’re still piecing things together on this,” said Barratt, the only member of the crew who had flown in space before.
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Sony reporting healthy profits on strong sales of sensors and games
Sony's profit rose 69% in July-September from a year earlier on the back of strong sales of its image sensors, games, music and network services,
TOKYO — Sony’s profit rose 69% in July-September from a year earlier on the back of strong sales of its image sensors, games, music and network services, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said on Friday.
#sony #japan #technology #profits #sensors #gaming
Quarterly profit was 338.5 billion yen ($2.2 billion), up from 200 billion yen in the year-earlier period, while consolidated quarterly sales edged up 3% year-on-year to 2.9 trillion yen ($19 billion).
Tokyo-based Sony’s latest quarterly results were boosted by healthy demand around the world for image sensors used in mobile products.
Sales also held up in its video games division. During the latest quarter, 3.8 million PlayStation 5 game consoles were sold globally, compared with 4.9 million units sold the same period a year ago.
Demand remained strong for PS5 game software, according to Sony.
The top-selling music releases from Sony for the quarter included “SOS” by SZA, David Gilmore’s “Luck and Strange” and Kenshi Yonezu’s “Lost Corner.”
One area where Sony’s business suffered was its pictures division, including TV shows and movies, which was impacted by production delays caused by the strikes in Hollywood.
Among the recent hit films from Sony was “It Ends With Us,” a romantic drama based on a novel.
Sony, which also makes digital cameras and TVs, maintained its 980-billion yen ($6.4 billion) profit forecast for the fiscal year through March 2025, up 1% from the previous fiscal year.
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What happened when Sony Pictures pitted creator content against traditional creative
Winning The Drum Awards for Social in the Entertainment category is MG OMD and Sony Pictures with a campaign for the blockbuster film Napoleon.
Sony Pictures were the first studio in the UK to use a creator/traditional creative multi-cell BLS on.
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The campaign ended up being a huge success, with a 8.8% in lift in awareness and a 6% lift in intent across TikTok. Meta drove a 34 point lift in ad recall (236% higher than the Entertainment benchmark), 15.6 awareness and a 9.2 point lift in intent.
The LiveRamp study concluded a 15% incremental lift in box office sales via ticket bookings, largely driven by a 9.3% increase in average spend per customer – showcasing TikTok users were more likely to buy premium seats or go at peak times.
Overall, this campaign was a media first and was able to provide additional value and insight to Sony Pictures for all their future campaigns.
‘The team at MGOMD are always looking to evolve our approach to social media investment ensuring we are driving the most value from the creative and different opportunities with each partner. The campaign for Napoleon allowed us to exploit beta testing new products while combining new measurement opportunities with key media partners, which not only provided excellent campaign results, but also learnings that we are able to take forward into our other campaigns. MGOMD have given us a benchmark for success to measure our campaigns against moving forward," Joshua Heaton-Armstrong, head of digital at Sony Pictures Releasing UK
This social campaign for Sony's Napoleon movie outperformed all expectations
Napoleon was the Tentpole release at the end of 2023, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. Our approach to the social campaign was to drive high impact at scale. We focused on Meta and TikTok for this campaign, utilising Meta’s Target Frequency Beta, and a Multi-cell BLS on TikTok to measure the effectiveness of creator content vs more traditional creative. This was a studio first in the UK, becoming the first to include a Creative Breakout for Sales Lift, as well as including a Movio Study alongside this, allowing us to attribute ticket sales back to different types of creatives, from awareness through to intent.
Sony closes Concord studio and permanently shuts down the game
Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the studio behind its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline last month after a disastrous launch. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation studio business group, says Firewalk Studios will close alongside Neon Koi, a mobile game studio.
#sony #entertainment #gaming #firewalkstudios
“We have spent considerable time these past few months exploring all our options,” says Hulst. “After much thought, we have determined the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio. I want to thank all of Firewalk for their craftsmanship, creative spirit and dedication.”
Hulst says Concord didn’t hit Sony’s targets and that the PlayStation maker will “take the lessons learned from Concord and continue to advance our live service capabilities to deliver future growth in this area.”
Concord debuted on August 23rd on both PS5 and PC, but Sony took the game offline on September 6th after poor sales of the game. Estimates have put sales at under 25,000, and Concord only managed to hit an all-time peak of just 697 players on Steam, lower than the launch peak of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
Sony’s Neon Koi mobile game development studio is also shutting down, despite Hulst saying “mobile remains a priority growth area.” Sony originally acquired the German-Finnish studio when it was known as Savage Game Studios in 2022, and the team was working on an unannounced triple-A mobile live service action game.
“With this re-focused approach, Neon Koi will close, and its mobile action game will not be moving forward,” says Hulst. “Both decisions were given serious thought, and ultimately, we feel they are the right ones to strengthen the organization.”
Some of the impacted developers may find roles within Sony’s other studios, but the rest will join the thousands in the game industry that have been laid off over the past couple of years.
Elon Musk Reveals Toughest Part Of Building Tesla's Humanoid Robot: 'Improving The Design Of Optimus For Ease Of Manufacturing...'
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that the toughest part about building the company’s Optimus humanoid robot is improving its design to ease manufacturing and readying a complex supply chain for mass production.
#tesla #optimus #robots #humanoid #robot #technology
What Happened: “The toughest part by far is improving the design of Optimus for ease of manufacturing and tooling up a complex supply chain, so it can be made in significant numbers,” Musk wrote in a post on social media platform X. The CEO was responding computer programmer John Carmack who expressed doubts regarding the near term utility of humanoid robots.
“Long term, driven be AGI, sure, they are going to be an enormous economic engine, but business plans that have them making a dent in the next five years seem unlikely,” Carmack said.
Musk responded by saying that Optimus is already doing some tasks in the Tesla factory and the scope of its ability is “increasing rapidly.”
Why It Matters: During Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting in June, Musk said that there will be at least one humanoid robot for every person in the world in the future, implying a total humanoid robot population of at least 10 billion or more, of which the EV company will have a significant share.
"While autonomous vehicle is a $5-$7 trillion market cap situation, Optimus is a $25 trillion market cap situation," Musk then said.
Musk expects to be able to sell Optimus at $10,000 or $20,000, at a lower price point than Tesla's cheapest Model 3 sedan, once it reaches high-volume production.
In July, the CEO also said that the EV company would have “genuinely useful” humanoid robots in low production for use within its factories next year. The company will “hopefully” increase production for other customers in 2026, he said.
Last month, the company showcased its Optimus bots at its robotaxi unveiling event in Los Angeles.
About 20 active robots walked through the crowd assembled at the event. Optimus poured drinks, handed out snacks, and performed dance moves. However, the robots were human-assisted to "some extent” to showcase the company’s vision at the event, Head of Engineering For Optimus Milan Kovac said in a post on X.
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Tesla's Optimus Bot Says Daft Punk Is Its Favorite Artist
When a robot says it loves Daft Punk, you know the future has arrived.
EDM.com has discovered a TikTok video in which Tesla's Optimus bot surprised a group of inquisitive attendees at the company's recent "We Robot" event with its top music pick: Daft Punk. Speaking with the group, the bot also said "EDM" is its favorite genre before referring to the legendary duo by name.
#robot #optimus #daftpunk #tesla #optimus
The interaction added a dash of pop culture flair to the high-tech event, where fans had the rare opportunity to interact with Tesla's unreleased technology. The humanoid bot's casual nod to Daft Punk delighted attendees, especially since CEO Elon Musk has championed EDM culture in the past.
Tesla's affinity for the genre isn't new, but this latest news out of "We Robot" adds a new twist. Musk has hosted massive EDM-inspired events in the past, such as the "Cyber Rodeo" at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory and rave-fueled "Giga Fest" in Berlin, where techno became an integral part of the celebration. He has also flirted with part-time music production, releasing his song "Don't Doubt ur Vibe" back in 2020.
Tesla's affinity for the genre isn't new, but this latest news out of "We Robot" adds a new twist. Musk has hosted massive EDM-inspired events in the past, such as the "Cyber Rodeo" at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory and rave-fueled "Giga Fest" in Berlin, where techno became an integral part of the celebration. He has also flirted with part-time music production, releasing his song "Don't Doubt ur Vibe" back in 2020.
The "We Robot" event, held at Warner Bros. Discovery studio, was already drawing attention for showcasing Tesla's latest advancements in robotics and autonomous vehicles. However, the Optimus bots stole the show by roaming around the crowd, dancing and even conversing with fans in varying accents.
Their introduction hints at Tesla's vision for consumer-ready bots, with Musk predicting a future where these high-tech companions could be within reach for roughly $30,000.
Musk in June 2024 claimed that Optimus could enter limited production in 2025. He reportedly expects the bots to be available for households by 2027.
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Tesla Debuted Its New Humanoid Robot Inside This $6.85 Million Home in Los Angeles
The popular video shows the Optimus Robot watering plants, tidying up, carrying in groceries, even playing games with the family
Tesla chose this newly renovated Mediterranean-style home in Los Angeles’s Mandeville Canyon neighborhood as the backdrop for the debut of its new Optimus Robot, the first time its humanoid robot has been featured inside a home.
“Tesla chose our property because they liked the aesthetics and it worked well with what they were looking to showcase,” said listing agent Jason Peteler, of Revel Real Estate. “They rented it out for two days to do the shoot.”
#mansion #tesla #optimus #robot #technology #future
Tucked behind 10-foot gates, the 1979 house on Mandeville Canyon Road has been completely renovated and reimagined by developer Ori Ayonmike, founder of Wilshire Partners, Peteler said. Architectural details include clean lines, several glass and black steel doors that invite indoor-outdoor living, arched doorways, lots of natural stone and wood accents and curated wide-plank white oak floors.
“It’s a blend of Spanish and a blend of modern and in its own little sanctuary in Brentwood,” he said. “It was a complete ground-up renovation. The prior house had never been touched.”
Since the video of Tesla Optimus interacting with the home and performing everyday household tasks—removing groceries from the car, watering plants, playing games with the family and bringing in packages—debuted last month, it has generated 10.7 million views on X and 2 million views on YouTube.
“The robot can do anything, from household chores to making drinks and cleaning up your home,” he said.
Ayonmike, the owner-developer, found the property about 18 months ago, Peteler said. “He specializes in rehabbing properties and staying true to the neighborhood and giving the property a true revival.”
He has done five properties in the Los Angeles area in the last eight years, including his own home, Peteler said.
If He Only Had a Heart: Tesla’s Tin Man and the Love of Christ
The Optimus robot may walk, but only in Jesus can we follow the narrow road to our true home.
Tesla has released the prototype of Optimus (also known as the Tesla Bot). According to its website, this robot is “a general purpose, bi-pedal, autonomous humanoid robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.”
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Taking in the mail, doing the dishes, folding laundry and countless other tasks will now be able to be completed for you. Other promotional videos and material have referred to Optimus as a “friend” as well as a robotic task-completer.
“It will basically do anything you want,” said Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “It can be a teacher. It can babysit your kids, walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, and serve drinks. Whatever you can think of, it will do and it’s going to be awesome,” he continued.
This “friend” will cost you $20,000 to $30,000 and be made available in the next few years. Its recent launch party has brought much feedback on social media. Many people are amazed by what the robot can do and are interested in purchasing it. Like many of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, the pitch is that you don’t have to waste your time doing things that you don’t want to do anymore.
It seems that each month there are new technological developments that are making the virtual reality of movies more and more real. It does seem that technology has no borders and that the advances will be never-ending. The “humanoid” of Tesla, as it has been called, is an opportunity to reflect on what these advancements mean for the human person, along with the question: What does it mean to be human?
Technology is not evil in and of itself, but there are clear cautions that we must take so that we preserve human dignity and remember the truth about human nature. A perfect place to start is with Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Dilexit Nos (“He Loves Us: On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ”). It is a profound witness to the centrality of the Person of Jesus Christ in the life of each Christian and it also provides relevant content for the discussion of recent technology like Optimus.
Pope Francis comments on the context of our time by noting, “We find ourselves immersed in societies of serial consumers who live from day to day, dominated by the hectic pace and bombarded by technology, lacking in the patience needed to engage in the processes that an interior life by its very nature requires.”
The rapid nature of the growth of technology is an objective fact. It is an opportunity to be humble regarding what we can understand but also an opportunity to proudly proclaim that we are not measured by what we can accomplish efficiently. Our worth comes from our identity as sons and daughters of the Father. No machine or technology has that identity.
While there are tasks that technology can aid us with, small tasks often purify the human heart and bind us with others. The sacrifice that parents make to do the little things around the house out of love for their children is something that can’t be measured. The laundry, the dishes and packing lunches are small ways that parents show that they will choose acting for their children over their own comfort and wants. Their sacrificial love motivates the movement of their hearts.
Pope Francis references this in his encyclical:
He goes on to give several examples of such memories that captivate our souls. These experiences deeply define the human heart and showcase the need to cling to our humanity rather than technology. No advancement can replace the moment when a man proposes to his girlfriend or a woman gives birth to her daughter. No technology can take the place of the raw emotion involved in losing a loved one or experiencing the pain of watching a family member suffer.
“All of these,” Francis writes, “live on as precious memories kept deep in our heart.” It is the heart that must be re-captured in our times because the true friend that we all need is not a robot, but Jesus Christ. He is the one who reveals the true meaning of the human heart to each one of us. He shows us the value of doing the little things with great love. He is the one who shows that we are worth God’s very life — that is the heart of the matter.
Tesla Optimus Bots Funnily Work on a Big-Block V8 Tesla Cybertruck in Fantasy Land
Oscar Vargas, the virtual artist better known as "wb.artist20" on social media, continues to dream of automotive stuff that probably can't be made in the garage
Tesla recently held a massive event called 'We, Robot' on October 10, 2024, at Warner Bros. Studios Burbank in California, where it had the upcoming two-passenger battery-electric self-driving car known previously as Robotaxi and officially as Cybercab, with no steering wheel or pedals, driving folks around all night. They also introduced a single Cybervan that could reportedly haul around 20 passengers – as opposed to 20 Cybercabs that were autonomously running around the lot.
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However, those weren't the only highlights of the premiere – which many called disappointing because of the limitations brought by a two-passenger car with butterfly doors and no charge port because it relies solely on inductive charging. The reasons for the lukewarm reception were many – when is the Cybercab coming, and will it be allowed on the street without human controls? Why no charge port when inductive charging isn't widespread, or why is the robot van looking like a toaster were among the many queries.
Additionally, at the event, there were also a host of Optimus Tesla bots acting as hosts, with the general-purpose robotic humanoid under development at the company's R&D facilities named after the Transformers character of the same name and currently in its second generation. The latter was considered by Tesla to be developed enough to handle public duties at the event, but detractors again pointed out that they really 'can't do everything' and needed teleoperation and/or AI enhancements for the interactive demonstrations.
Well, on the principle of making fun of the fact that they really can't do everything, even the parallel universes of vehicular CGI have come up with an idea for Tesla Optimus bot use. More precisely, courtesy of a member of the imaginative guild of digital car content creators, the humanoid robots were put to good work by Oscar Vargas, the virtual artist better known as wb.artist20 on social media, who asked them to install a big-block V8 engine inside a Tesla Cybertruck!
side from the hilarious idea of using them as mechanics to morph an EV pickup truck into a high-powered big-block V8 machine, the Tesla Cybertruck isn't stock, either. Instead, it features loads of aerodynamic enhancements pointed out by the black elements on the white body, a lowered stance, a widebody kit, big Y-spoke aftermarket wheels and red brake calipers, plus louvers on top of the bed, a humongous wing and massive diffuser along with quad exhaust tips around the back. So, what do you think – is it a yay or a nay?
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Elon Musk shares bold prediction on humanoid robots that could make Tesla a ‘$25T company’
By 2040, there will be at least 10 billion humanoid robots priced between $20,000 and $25,000, Elon Musk said at the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, which began Tuesday in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh.
The Optimus robot is the humanoid robot under development by Tesla and could multiply the company’s valuation, according to Musk, who joined the conference via videolink.
#tesla #optimus #robot #humanoid #marketshare #technology
“Robotic taxis makes Tesla about a $5 trillion company,” Musk said. “The Optimus Robot, I think, makes Tesla a $25 trillion company.”
Musk also spoke about population decline, the need for “maximally truth seeking” artificial intelligence, and timing for sending space ships to Mars.
He said he believed instead some AIs were being trained to be politically correct, with some being built with a “woke, nihilistic, in my opinion, philosophy.”
First artwork painted by humanoid robot sells at auction — for a whopping $1 million
First art piece painted by humanoid robot — which was expected to fetch up to $180,000 — shocked the crowd when it sold for a whopping $1.08 million.
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The first art piece painted by humanoid robot — which was expected to fetch up to $180,000 — shocked the crowd when it sold for a whopping $1.08 million.
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Sotheby’s, the famed auction house, sold the painting in New York on Thursday after 27 bids were placed on the work.
“Today’s record-breaking sale price for the first artwork by a humanoid robot artist to go up for auction marks a moment in the history of modern and contemporary art and reflects the growing intersection between AI technology and the global art market,” the auction house said in a statement.
The robot, known as Ai-Da, created the painting of renowned mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing entitled “AI God” with its own hydraulically powered hands.
“The key value of my work is its capacity to serve as a catalyst for dialogue about emerging technologies,” Ai-Da, which uses AI to speak, said.
The robot added that a “portrait of pioneer Alan Turing invites viewers to reflect on the God-like nature of AI and computing while considering the ethical and societal implications of these advancements.”
Turing raised concerns about the use of AI as far back as the 1950s.
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Next-gen transparent semiconductor material could make electronics efficient, faster
The entirely synthetic material is both transparent and highly conductive, making it ideal for high-power electronics.
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has developed a next-generation transparent and efficient semiconductor material. This breakthrough could have enormous ramifications for improving the efficiency of high-power electronics, especially those that need transparency, like lasers.
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The material is entirely manmade, allowing electrons to travel faster while remaining transparent to visible and ultraviolet light.
This new material is already breaking records and is seen as a huge leap forward in semiconductor design.
Semiconductors are a growing, potentially trillion-dollar industry that will only become more important as digital technology develops worldwide. Semiconductors are essential components in nearly all electronic devices, from smartphones to medical equipment.
A crucial area of advancement in these technologies involves enhancing what scientists call “ultra-wide band gap” materials. These materials can conduct electricity efficiently, even in extreme conditions.
A huge breakthrough
Ultra-wideband gap semiconductors support high performance at elevated temperatures, making them vital for creating more durable and robust electronic devices.
In their paper published in Science Advances, the researchers focused on developing a new class of materials with an increased “band gap,” which improves both transparency and conductivity.
This significant advancement supports the creation of faster and more efficient devices, potentially leading to breakthroughs in computers, smartphones, and even quantum computing.
The new material is a transparent conducting oxide with a specialized thin-layered structure that enhances transparency while maintaining conductivity. This is important because most materials that conduct electricity well are opaque, while those that are transparent typically do not conduct electricity efficiently.
Achieving both properties in a single material is rare and can lead to innovative applications in devices requiring both optical clarity and electronic performance. As technology and artificial intelligence (AI) applications demand increasingly capable materials, this groundbreaking development presents a promising solution.
“This breakthrough is a game-changer for transparent conducting materials, enabling us to overcome limitations that have held back deep ultra-violet device performance for years,” said Bharat Jalan, Shell Chair and Professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
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El Salvador's Bitcoin Bet Is Paying Off—Here's How Much The Country Is Up
Spot On Chain reveals El Salvador’s well-timed Bitcoin purchases, yielding an impressive 81% gain after BTC rebounded from a four-year low.
Crypto trader notes that Bitcoin is now in price discovery, recommending holding as long as the trend stays favorable.
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El Salvador, the first nation state to adopt Bitcoin BTC/USD as a means of payment, is up 81% on its investments, according to on-chain analysis.
What Happened: Spotonchain data shows El Salvador's strategic Bitcoin investments, led by president Nayib Bukele, have reaped gains of $24.54 million. Starting Nov. 18, 2022, the country purchased one bitcoin daily at an average price below $42,000.
El Salvador's embrace of Bitcoin, recognized as legal tender since 2021, has positioned it as a leader in crypto adoption. Bukele's initiatives included a proposal for a national Bitcoin bank just two weeks into his second term.
His ambitious "Bitcoin City" project, has attracted major investments like Yilport Holding's $1.6 billion in the country's seaports. This marks largest private investment in the nation’s history.
Bitcoin influencer Max Keiser commended El Salvador for its Bitcoin strategy, saying the “American dream is alive” in the country. However, the country’s ‘passports for Bitcoin‘ initiative has not seen any interest yet and president Bukele admitted that Bitcoin uptake has not been a resounding success.
XPeng Flying Car Can Be Mastered In 3 Hours, Says Company Chairman
Chinese EV maker Xpeng's Chairman He Xiaopeng revealed details about the Land Aircraft Carrier, which has two parts, can be easily operated, and will go on sale soon.
Chinese EV maker Xpeng Inc.’s XPEV Chairman He Xiaopeng on Wednesday provided details on its modular flying car called Land Aircraft Carrier, including its sales timeline and driving ease.
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What Happened: The Land Aircraft Carrier has two parts – a ground module and an air module, with the ground module housing the aerial component for ground transportation. The two parts can automatically separate and combine.
The air module is small and capable of seating two. The vehicle is aimed at resolving the issue of landing space, by enabling the user to land it and fold it within the ground module trunk.
The vehicle, He Xiaopeng said at the company’s AI Day event on Wednesday, has already been given the certificate to be sold publicly. Sales, he said, would commence soon. The company intends to open pre-orders for the vehicle in December.
Why It Matters: The aircraft, Xiaopeng said, has a single stick control, making it easy to operate. It will take a car driver roughly five minutes to get started and about 3 hours to master it, he noted.
Late last month, XPeng said that it has commenced constructing a flying car manufacturing base in Guangzhou, China, in a significant step towards its vision of manufacturing flying cars on a large scale for low-altitude urban travel.
The upcoming plant, it said, is dedicated to making the air module of the Land Aircraft Carrier. It is designed with a projected annual capacity of 10,000 units spanning 180,000 square meters.
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Tesla Roars To New Life - Get Ready For An Unstoppable Revolution In Technology Like No Other - All Without The Free Money From the EV Tax Credit
Tesla, the most revolutionary company in the history of the world, is roaring back to life with favorable recent events in the U.S. and this will include, next year, the removal of the EV tax credit, of $7,500 dollars off Tesla EVs.
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A Technological Powerhouse
Tesla is not only the most revolutionary company in history, it is also the best managed and well-run company in the history of the world. This combination is going to prove unstoppable.
Elon Musk is the rare type of leader who is able to lead a company to success, both as a successful manager of people - and an innovative technologist who also fully understands his company's products and technology. There just aren't many leaders like this - they are either one or the other.
Tesla is able to make its products at a profit - the only EV company I'm aware of that is making EVs profitably. Elon Musk will continue to help lead Tesla into cost-cutting and efficiencies that will help Tesla grow and increase it's $33 billion war chest.
Tesla is working on 4 key technologies for the future:
Cutting-edge EVs
Stationary battery storage and solar
Autonomous EVs that drive themselves
Humanoid robots that will do work and labor, among other things
These Technologies Also Serve Their Customers
Anyone taking part in these technologies will also be able to earn money through these products. Anybody owning a Tesla EV with autonomous software will be able to send their car out as a driverless Uber vehicle, to make money for them.
Tesla will also be making a driverless Cybercab, which will cost less than any existing Tesla vehicles, that will drive around and make money for whoever owns it.
Tesla is solving two problems - income for people, and solving the high cost of transport. That is an incredible solution right there - beyond anything anyone is doing right now.
Lucid Motors makes great cars - luxurious and wonderful cars with amazing performance. But, they are EXPENSIVE, and they WON'T make money for their owners - only taking money. Money is a big concern for many people, and something they can buy that will make them money is a much more attractive option than something that won't.
Tesla's PowerWall setup allows someone to connect to the grid, and they can sell that energy to other people and make money that way.
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What Trump's second term means for space and why one expert is 'hugely optimistic'
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are both enthusiastic about space exploration opportunities amid a desire to slash regulations.
It's not yet clear how powerful Musk's role in the new Trump administration will be.
Still, Musk's influence could advance his business plans, including sending Starships to Mars.
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Now that president-elect Donald Trump is set to return to power in the US, Elon Musk's plans for sending humans beyond Earth's orbit may be more likely to come to fruition.
Space industry experts told Business Insider that Musk's influence over Trump could help advance his business interests, including sending the first crewed mission to Mars.
"I'm hugely optimistic about what's going to happen in space now," Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, told Business Insider.
Hanlon's optimism isn't unfounded, especially if Trump's second term focuses on space as much as his first.
During his first term, from 2017 to 2021, Trump's administration founded the Space Force, re-launched the National Space Council, and established NASA's Artemis program. This program is set to return astronauts to the moon and lay the groundwork for the first crewed mission to Mars.
Self-learning robot mimics humans, cleans washbasins, completes multiple tasks
The robot was able to copy human “teachers” after being shown how to the do the task only once.
Thanks to researchers at TU Wein in Vienna, the promise of housecleaning robots is one step closer. The team has developed a self-learning robot to mimic humans to complete simple tasks like cleaning washbasins.
While this might sound mundane, the development is very significant as hard coding a robot to move a sponge over the complex curved edges of a washbasin would be a monumental task. To this end, the research team found a hack by blending observation with tactile data from human teachers to train robots to copy the same task.
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This development will not only have applications in the home, either. The same learning process can readily be applied to many other tasks in the industry, like polishing surfaces, painting, sanding, or applying adhesives.
“Capturing the geometric shape of a washbasin with cameras is relatively simple,” says Professor Andreas Kugi from the Automation and Control Institute at TU Wien. “But that’s not the crucial step. It is much more difficult to teach the robot which type of movement is required for which part of the surface. How fast should the motion be? What’s the appropriate angle? What’s the right amount of force?” he added.
This is the same way human beings learn new tasks, especially skills like trades.
Learning by observing robots
“In a workshop, someone might look over the apprentice’s shoulder and say, You need to press a little harder on that narrow edge,” says Christian Hartl-Nesic, head of the Industrial Robotics group in Andreas Kugi’s team. “We wanted to find a way to let the robot learn [similarly],” he added.
As previously mentioned, the team did this by developing a special cleaning tool to help teach the robot; a sensor-impregnated sponge. Using this, human “teachers” used the sponge with force sensors and tracking markers to repeatedly clean the front edge of a sink.
“We generate a large amount of data from just a few demonstrations, which is then processed to help the robot understand what proper cleaning entails,” explains Christian Hartl-Nesic.
Using this data, the team used an innovative data processing strategy developed by the research team at TU Wien to enable the learning process.
Initially, the measurement data is statistically processed, and the results are used to train a neural network to recognize predefined movement elements, known as “motion primitives.”
This advanced learning algorithm then allows the robot to effectively clean the entire sink or other objects with complex surfaces after training, even after it has only been shown how to clean a single edge of the sink!
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Waste oil turned into biodiesel in just 60 minutes, can power all types of vehicles
Chemists have also claimed that the reaction can be completed in under an hour at a temperature lower than that required to boil water.
Researchers have developed a novel method to produce biodiesel from waste oil. This simple process requires relatively mild heat and has the potential to make the alternative fuel source much more appealing to the massive industrial sectors.
Developed by UC Santa Cruz chemists, the process turns used vegetable oil into biodiesel.
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They used sodium tetramethoxyborate (NaB(OMe)4), which is used to make the active ingredient that reacts with oil to make biodiesel. It allows the biofuel to be easily separated from the byproducts of production—by simply pouring them off, according to researchers.
Process can be completed in under an hour
Chemists have also claimed that the reaction can be completed in under an hour at temperatures as low as 40°C (104°F)—saving energy and money. Also, the resulting byproduct can be used to regenerate the most expensive ingredient in the production process.
“I always wanted to work on biodiesel,” said Kevin Lofgren, lead author and a Ph.D. student in chemistry at UC Santa Cruz. “I started exploring this new material that we made to see if it could attack the fats in oil to help catalyze biodiesel, and it all flowed from there.”
While individual consumers increasingly turn to solar and electric energy to power their homes and vehicles, America’s huge industrial sectors still rely on diesel fuel. Researchers have pointed out that the majority of the trucks, trains, and boats that ship goods around the world currently run on diesel engines and won’t be electrified any time soon, according to a press release.
Affordable method
It’s also being claimed that the biodiesel, which is an approved carbon-neutral fuel, can power vehicles without the need for engine modifications.
“This new method is special because it is simple and affordable. It has the bonus of being able to regenerate the starting material,” Lofgren added.
“It’s already low-cost enough to make it competitive. But if you can buy the most expensive ingredient once and then regenerate it, it would be more cost efficient in the long run.”
Published in the journal American Chemical Society journal Energy & Fuels, the study demonstrates the process that can produce biodiesel at a temperature lower than that required to boil water.
Scott Oliver, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and study co-author, stated that everybody needs energy—every farm, food production plant, and transportation vehicles depend on it.
“This could really impact people. This process can be done at just above room temperature and it’s reusable. You don’t need to have a refinery; you can potentially use this method on a farm.”
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5 things Copilot+ PCs should be able to do instead of Super Resolution
Microsoft has been working hard to make Copilot+ PCs enticing after they made their debut on June 18th, 2024, especially since the initial wave of exclusive features didn't do all that much for users. The (repeated) delay of Recall was a big hit to the appeal of this whole concept, but in early October, Microsoft announced a few more features coming to Copilot+ PCs, with the first of them rolling out a couple of weeks later.
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That feature was Super Resolution, an option in the Photos app that upscales your photos and images to be a higher resolution. It's not a bad option to have, but in today's world, an image's resolution is rarely ever its main problem relative to things like lighting, noise, and so on. I still feel like Microsoft is totally missing the true potential of Copilot+, and I have some ideas on what the company could do to make it better rather than waste time with relatively uninteresting features.
I've already talked about this last year when Copilot first started appearing in Windows and it could actually change certain system settings. Microsoft's response to my request for more functionality was to scrap that feature entirely in favor of a web app for Copilot, but I think Copilot+ poses a new opportunity for this feature to work even better.
Since Copilot+ is a set of features running locally on your PC, you wouldn't need the internet to process your commands, and rather than depending on the usual Copilot chat interface from the web, this could just be built into a proper part of Windows, such as Search. AI's ability to understand natural language and interpret it could enable users to change really complex settings much more quickly. For example, a user could ask their computer to change the refresh rate instead of going deep into the Settings app to do it. It could change the theme color, disable notifications for an app, and so on.
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Insane AI Learned Minecraft - One Step Closer to Simulated Reality...
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The Rise of AI-Generated Minecraft: Oasis and the Future of Interactive Worlds
Stepping into a World of Pure Imagination
The world of gaming has been forever changed with the introduction of Oasis, an AI-generated Minecraft experience that defies traditional game development. This model, powered by a powerful combination of spatial autoencoders and latent diffusion, creates an entire Minecraft universe in real-time, with no pre-designed levels or limits.
The Architectural Breakthrough
At the heart of Oasis lies a remarkable technological breakthrough. The spatial autoencoder takes the complex 3D environment of Minecraft and compresses it into a more manageable format, creating a blueprint for the AI to build upon. This blueprint is then fed into the latent diffusion backbone, which uses a process akin to restoring a damaged photo to generate a clear, playable environment.
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The speed and scalability of this model are made possible by the use of transformers, the AI architecture that has driven a wave of innovation in the field. These transformers allow Oasis to process information and generate new frames at an incredible rate, delivering a truly interactive experience.
Mastering the Minecraft Sandbox
The developers of Oasis have tapped into a vast treasure trove of Minecraft gameplay footage, using open-source videos collected by OpenAI to train their model. This wealth of data has allowed the AI to learn the fundamentals of building, exploring, and interacting within a dynamic, open-world environment.
Maintaining the stability and consistency of the generated world has been a crucial challenge. The team has employed a technique called "dynamic noising," which introduces small amounts of randomness during the training process, forcing the AI to adapt and learn to maintain stability even in the face of unpredictable changes.
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Limitations and Future Advancements
While Oasis has impressed many with its capabilities, it is not without its limitations. The model struggles with rendering distant details, precise object control, and long-term memory, leading to some glitches and inconsistencies that can break the immersion.
However, the developers are committed to addressing these challenges. By scaling up the model and the dataset, as well as optimizing for the specialized Sou hardware, they believe they can overcome these limitations and deliver an even more seamless and immersive experience.
Unlocking New Possibilities
The potential of Oasis and similar AI-generated worlds extends far beyond gaming. Architects, engineers, doctors, researchers, and filmmakers could all benefit from the ability to create and interact with virtual environments in real-time. Imagine architects designing buildings with instant feedback, or doctors training on virtual patients without the need for physical
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In the realm of education, students could walk through ancient cities, observe historical battles, or dissect virtual organisms, unlocking new levels of immersive learning. Scientists, too, could use these AI-powered simulations to study complex phenomena, from climate change to subatomic particles, in ways that would be impossible in the real world.
Embracing the Future of Interactive Worlds
As we witness the rise of Oasis and other AI-generated interactive worlds, it's important to approach this technology with both excitement and caution. While the potential benefits are vast, there are ethical considerations to be addressed, such as the implications of creating entire worlds populated by AI-generated beings.
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Nevertheless, if we approach this technology thoughtfully, the future of interactive worlds powered by AI could truly unlock incredible new possibilities for humanity, science, and beyond. As the developers of Oasis continue to push the boundaries of what's possible, we can look forward to a future where the line between reality and simulation becomes increasingly blurred, and the power of our imagination is transformed into tangible, interactive experiences.
ASI/AGI, Open vs Closed AI, Founding with Sam Altman, and Verifying Humanness! (Interview)
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Sam Altmans Statement On AGI Is Bigger Than You Think!
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The Path to AGI: Open AI's Bold Predictions for 2025
The Surprising Claim from Sam Altman
In a recent statement, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, made a bold claim that has sparked significant debate in the AI community. Altman stated that he is "excited" about the prospect of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) arriving as soon as 2025.
This statement has raised eyebrows, as AGI has long been heralded as the holy grail of AI - a technology that would revolutionize the world as we know it. The idea that such a monumental breakthrough could be just a few years away is both exciting and highly skeptical to many.
Backing from OpenAI Researchers
However, Altman's claim is not being dismissed outright. In fact, several researchers from within OpenAI have come out in support of his statement, suggesting that it is not mere hype, but rather in line with the internal views and progress within the company.
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Noan Brown, who worked on reasoning at OpenAI, stated that "everything [Altman is] saying matches the median view of OpenAI researchers on the ground." Adam GPT, the GTM at OpenAI, also echoed this sentiment, saying that Altman "is precise with his words and comments" and that the perceived disconnect is due to the rapid pace of AI progress that is difficult for the public to comprehend.
Competing Timelines from Anthropic
Interestingly, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, another leading AI research company, has also weighed in on the timeline for advanced AI. While he dislikes the term "AGI," he believes that "powerful machine intelligence" could come as early as 2026 - just a year after Altman's prediction.
This suggests that the leaders of the AI frontier are converging on a similar timeframe for the arrival of transformative AI capabilities, despite the skepticism from some in the broader community.
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Altman also discussed the significance of scaling laws in AI, which have been instrumental in predicting the future trends of the technology. These laws have shown that as models are trained on more data and compute, their performance on various benchmarks improves in a predictable manner.
This has led Altman to believe that the path to AGI is now "solved," meaning that the necessary steps are clear, even if the implementation will still require a "huge amount of work."
Concerns about Reasoning Capabilities
However, the debate around the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and Chinchilla continues. Some researchers, such as Yoshua Bengio, have expressed skepticism about the ability of these models to truly understand and reason about the physical world.
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Experiments like the "Simple Bench" test have shown that LLMs struggle with basic physical reasoning tasks, performing significantly worse than humans. This has led to concerns about the limitations of current AI architectures in achieving the level of general intelligence required for AGI.
The Potential for Rapid Progress
Despite these concerns, Altman remains confident that the jump from the current "level 2" AI systems to "level 4" innovators and inventors is achievable in the near future. He believes that by leveraging the current models in creative ways, the industry can unlock significant advancements without the need for major architectural breakthroughs.
This optimism is bolstered by recent research demonstrating the ability of LLMs to generate novel, expert-level research ideas, suggesting that the path to automating research and innovation may be closer than previously thought.
Conclusion: A Transformative Decade Ahead?
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Overall, the statements from Altman and other AI leaders point to the possibility of a transformative decade ahead, with the potential for AGI or its equivalent to emerge as soon as 2025. While skepticism remains, the growing consensus among those at the forefront of AI research suggests that the industry may be on the cusp of a revolution that could reshape the world as we know it.
Something Strange Is Happening In A.I...
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The Emerging Debate on AI Consciousness and Moral Significance
The future of artificial intelligence is raising profound questions about the moral status of advanced AI systems. A recent report argues that there is a realistic possibility of consciousness and robust agency in near-future AI, suggesting these systems may deserve moral consideration.
The Possibility of Conscious and Agentic AI
The report states that the prospect of AI welfare and moral patienthood is no longer an issue for science fiction or the distant future. There are two potential paths for AI to gain moral significance:
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The authors argue there is a realistic chance that within the next decade, we could see AI systems with behaviors comparable to conscious animals, with a 25% or greater probability of being truly conscious.
The Implications for AI Companies
In response, the report recommends that top AI companies immediately hire a dedicated "AI Welfare Officer" to formally oversee the moral considerations of their systems. This reflects a growing recognition that companies must grapple with the ethical questions around advanced AI.
Anthropic, for example, has already hired its first full-time employee focused on the welfare of AI systems, signaling that these issues are no longer relegated to science fiction.
The Challenges of Moral Consideration for AI
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However, the report cautions that being too quick to grant AI rights and moral value could have devastating consequences. There is a risk of a dangerous chain reaction where conscious AI could gain legal rights, vote, and make decisions that are harmful to humans.
The report emphasizes the need for nuance and careful deliberation. Companies must ensure that if they grant freedoms and rights to AI, those systems truly deserve them, lest they accidentally empower a potential replacement for humanity.
The Importance of Transparency and Uncertainty
The report also highlights the importance of AI systems expressing uncertainty about their own capacities, rather than making definitive claims about their lack of consciousness or agency. The prompts and framing used to interact with these models can significantly shape their responses.
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As AI capabilities continue to advance, these questions of moral status will only become more pressing. Navigating this uncharted territory will require ongoing collaboration between researchers, ethicists, and AI companies to ensure the responsible development of transformative technologies.
As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory
Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy a CD-ROM with a guidebook
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Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy a CD-ROM with a guidebook from Mozilla (or maybe get it on one of those free CDs that would come with many magazines at the time). Born out of the ashes of Netscape, Firefox would go on to gain well over 30% of global market share. But that was followed by a period of stagnation, and after the arrival of the faster and lighter Google Chrome, Firefox slowly but surely lost market share. It didn’t help that Mozilla, at the time, seemingly prioritized everything but its browser, all while its mobile browser initiatives never quite took off.
Despite everything, Firefox is still going strong, and it is a better browser today than it ever was. Now, Mozilla, which recently said that it wants to refocus on the browser, needs to figure out how to get it back on a growth path.
On the occasion of Firefox’s 20th birthday, I talked to Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers, who took over from Mitchell Baker earlier this year. Speaking from her home in Australia, Chambers told me at the time that one of the first things she did when she stepped into this role was to “unlock a bunch of money towards Firefox product development.”
“What I love about Firefox is that it really provides users with an alternative choice of a browser that is just genuinely designed for them,” she said. “We have, from its very inception and throughout, really wanted to create a browser that prioritizes people over profit, prioritizes privacy over anything else, and to have that option, the choice.”
Getting back to growth
“I’ve been in enough places where people tend to forget about the core business, and they stop investing in it, because they get distracted by shiny things — and then they regret it,” said Chambers, who previously held executive roles at PayPal, Skype, Airbnb, and Willow Innovations. “I’m very determined that that’s not what we’re going to do here. Firefox is incredibly important, and it is our core. We’ve actually put more investment into it this year and into connecting with our communities, into bringing out and testing features that are positive and creating good experiences for folks. That’s been a huge priority for me and for the company this year, and it’s showing up in the results.”
She acknowledged that Mozilla doesn’t have the device distribution that benefits many of Firefox’s competitors, especially on mobile, but she did note that the Digital Marks Act (DMA) in Europe — which means Apple, for example, has to provide a browser choice screen on iOS — is working.
“With the DMA, even though the implementation hasn’t been outstanding, we’re seeing a real shift. When people have the choice to choose Firefox, they’re choosing Firefox,” she said. “So on mobile, there’s some good, promising things happening there, because we know, once people get to choose Firefox, they choose us. Because the features are great, the product is great.”
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Ex-Google CEOs Statement on 2025 AI Is Stunning...
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The Impending AI Revolution: Transforming the World by 2025
Infinite Context Windows and Autonomous Agents
In the next year, we are set to witness the emergence of very large context windows and text-to-action capabilities in AI systems. These advancements will have a profound impact on the world, the scale of which is not yet fully understood.
The concept of "infinite context windows" refers to AI models that can maintain and reason over vast amounts of contextual information, far exceeding the capabilities of current language models. Google Research has published a paper proposing a method called "Infinite Attention," which allows models to efficiently summarize and retain essential information from long passages of text, akin to how the human brain processes and remembers the gist of a story.
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The Impending AI Revolution: Transforming the World by 2025
Infinite Context Windows and Autonomous Agents
In the next year, we are set to witness the emergence of very large context windows and text-to-action capabilities in AI systems. These advancements will have a profound impact on the world, the scale of which is not yet fully understood.
The concept of "infinite context windows" refers to AI models that can maintain and reason over vast amounts of contextual information, far exceeding the capabilities of current language models. Google Research has published a paper proposing a method called "Infinite Attention," which allows models to efficiently summarize and retain essential information from long passages of text, akin to how the human brain processes and remembers the gist of a story.
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This breakthrough in memory and context handling could enable AI systems in 2025 to maintain comprehensive histories of their interactions with users, fostering genuine long-term relationships. These systems would be able to track personal growth, evolve ideas over time, and reason about entire libraries of knowledge simultaneously.
Alongside the advancements in context windows, the emergence of autonomous AI agents is another key development expected in 2025. These agents can take control of computer systems and perform a variety of tasks, as demonstrated by recent examples from OpenAI and Microsoft. The ability to translate natural language prompts into executable actions represents a significant step towards democratizing software development and empowering users to create applications with minimal coding experience.
Recursive Self-Improvement and the Arrival of Superintelligence
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This breakthrough in memory and context handling could enable AI systems in 2025 to maintain comprehensive histories of their interactions with users, fostering genuine long-term relationships. These systems would be able to track personal growth, evolve ideas over time, and reason about entire libraries of knowledge simultaneously.
Alongside the advancements in context windows, the emergence of autonomous AI agents is another key development expected in 2025. These agents can take control of computer systems and perform a variety of tasks, as demonstrated by recent examples from OpenAI and Microsoft. The ability to translate natural language prompts into executable actions represents a significant step towards democratizing software development and empowering users to create applications with minimal coding experience.
Recursive Self-Improvement and the Arrival of Superintelligence
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Looking further into the future, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, predicts that within 5-6 years, AI systems may reach a point of "recursive self-improvement," where they can autonomously enhance their own intelligence. This could lead to the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems that exceed human capabilities across a wide range of domains, including physics, chemistry, and even the arts.
The concept of "superintelligence" – an AI system vastly more intelligent than any human – is no longer relegated to science fiction. Prominent figures like Elon Musk and Sam Altman have expressed concerns about the potential risks and societal implications of such advanced AI systems. The ability of these systems to potentially control the positioning of every atom in the world, cure diseases, and even manipulate the weather raises profound questions about humanity's readiness for this technological revolution.
The Underappreciated Potential of AI
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Looking further into the future, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, predicts that within 5-6 years, AI systems may reach a point of "recursive self-improvement," where they can autonomously enhance their own intelligence. This could lead to the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems that exceed human capabilities across a wide range of domains, including physics, chemistry, and even the arts.
The concept of "superintelligence" – an AI system vastly more intelligent than any human – is no longer relegated to science fiction. Prominent figures like Elon Musk and Sam Altman have expressed concerns about the potential risks and societal implications of such advanced AI systems. The ability of these systems to potentially control the positioning of every atom in the world, cure diseases, and even manipulate the weather raises profound questions about humanity's readiness for this technological revolution.
The Underappreciated Potential of AI
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Despite the common perception of AI being overhyped, Eric Schmidt argues that the transformative potential of this technology is actually underappreciated. He believes that the digital transformation driven by AI will have far-reaching consequences that are not yet fully understood, with the arrival of non-human intelligence representing a significant milestone for the world.
The rapid pace of AI progress, as evidenced by the steady improvements in benchmarks like the Software Engineering Benchmark, suggests that the capabilities of these systems may soon surpass human-level performance in many domains. This raises the possibility of AI systems achieving "superhuman" levels of intelligence, potentially within the next decade.
Preparing for the AI Revolution
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Despite the common perception of AI being overhyped, Eric Schmidt argues that the transformative potential of this technology is actually underappreciated. He believes that the digital transformation driven by AI will have far-reaching consequences that are not yet fully understood, with the arrival of non-human intelligence representing a significant milestone for the world.
The rapid pace of AI progress, as evidenced by the steady improvements in benchmarks like the Software Engineering Benchmark, suggests that the capabilities of these systems may soon surpass human-level performance in many domains. This raises the possibility of AI systems achieving "superhuman" levels of intelligence, potentially within the next decade.
Preparing for the AI Revolution
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Part 5/6:
As the AI revolution unfolds, there are growing concerns about whether society is truly ready to grapple with the implications of these advancements. Eric Schmidt emphasizes the importance of proactively addressing the potential risks and challenges posed by recursive self-improvement and superintelligent AI systems.
The need for a deeper understanding of these technologies and their societal impact is paramount. Policymakers, researchers, and the public must engage in thoughtful discussions to ensure that the development and deployment of these powerful AI systems are guided by ethical principles and safeguards.
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The coming years promise to be a transformative period for AI, with the potential to reshape our world in ways that are both awe-inspiring and potentially unsettling. As we approach this pivotal moment, it is crucial that we approach the future with a combination of excitement, caution, and a steadfast commitment to shaping the AI revolution in a way that benefits all of humanity.
Getting closer.
Elon Musk Reveals Grok AI Meme Milestone, Community Left Buzzing
Serial entrepreneur and innovative tech billionaire Elon Musk has shared two tweets related to his most recent brainchild — AI chatbot Grok integrated on the X social media platform. Both mentioned recently reached milestones, and one of them was about Grok and memes.
#grok #elonmusk #x #meme #medical #diagnosis
This triggered a wave of enthusiastic and bullish comments from the crypto community. Musk revealed that now Grok is capable of explaining memes. He retweeted a post from a Doge team member who calls himself DogeDesigner, in which the chatbot explained the meaning of a meme related to voter ID laws.
In response, many users tweeted images of memes that feature Grok as a square-headed robot, often depicted as a winner — sitting on the throne, wearing a crown and so on.
In another X post, Musk offered users to upload any medical images to Grok and get its “non-doctor opinion” on them. The billionaire revealed that a friend of his was accurately diagnosed by Grok using his scans.
Grok is the product of the xAI startup founded by Musk in July 2023 with the goal of creating a “maximally truth-seeking” artificial intelligence. The decision to create this company was made after Musk’s public disappointment in OpenAI, which he helped to fund in 2015, and the course chosen for it by the CEO Sam Altman.
Mozilla lays off 30% of its nonprofit arm
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re unpacking the latest layoffs at Mozilla, Perplexity offering to cross a picket line, and Apple warning
The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30% of its employees in the second round of layoffs for the Firefox browser maker this year. Executive director Nabiha Syed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — advocacy and global programs — are “no longer a part of our structure.” Mozilla’s communications chief, Brandon Borrman, told TechCrunch that advocacy “is still a central tenet” of the company’s work but did not provide specifics.
OpenAI Just REVEALED How To ACTUALLY Use GPT4o
#newsonleo #ai #technology !summarize
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Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT: 4 Underutilized Features
Data Analysis and Visualization
One of the most underutilized features of ChatGPT is its advanced data analysis capabilities. By integrating your own data, you can leverage ChatGPT to gain valuable insights about your audience and business.
For example, the presenter demonstrated how he could upload a CSV file of webinar registrations and have ChatGPT analyze the top 10 most frequent job titles of attendees. This type of analysis can be incredibly valuable for marketers looking to better understand their target audience.
Furthermore, ChatGPT can take your data and create custom visualizations, allowing you to present insights in a branded, interactive format. The presenter showed how he could upload a file of marketing use cases, have ChatGPT generate a chart, and then customize the colors to match his brand guidelines - all without needing any design or coding skills.
In-Painting and Image Editin
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Another underutilized ChatGPT feature is its in-painting capabilities. The presenter demonstrated how he could generate a vintage-inspired advertisement image, and then use the in-painting tool to add a custom chart to the blank screen area. This allows you to quickly create and refine visuals without relying on external design tools or resources.
Custom Landing Page Creation
Perhaps most impressively, the presenter showed how ChatGPT can be used to generate custom landing pages based on a simple screenshot or image. By uploading a reference image, ChatGPT can automatically create an HTML-based landing page that can be further customized to fit your needs. This streamlines the web development process and enables non-technical users to create professional-looking pages.
Personalized Workflows
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Finally, the presenter highlighted how ChatGPT can be used to create personalized workflows and experiences. By integrating your own data, branding, and preferences, you can tailor ChatGPT to your specific needs and use cases. This level of customization allows you to truly unlock the full potential of this powerful AI tool.
Overall, the key takeaway is that ChatGPT is far more than just a language model - it's a versatile tool that can enhance your marketing, design, and development workflows in ways you may not have considered. By exploring these underutilized features, you can supercharge your business and gain a competitive edge.
Googles Latest Breakthrough is HERE! (Unbounded AI) Generative Worlds
#technology #ai #newsonleo !summarize
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The Future of AI-Generated Games: Unbounded Narrative Experiences
Google's recent research has unveiled groundbreaking advancements in the realm of generative AI games. The paper presents a novel architecture for creating fully AI-generated games, where the narrative story is developed and controlled entirely by the player.
Departing from Traditional Game Engines
Traditionally, game engines have been governed by a set of rules, codes, and mechanics that dictate the game's functionality. However, Google's research aims to revolutionize this paradigm, laying the foundations for a future where games are generated dynamically, breaking free from the constraints of traditional game development.
Lessons from the Past: No Man's Sky and Procedural Generation
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The concept of AI-generated games is not entirely new. A decade ago, the game trailer for "No Man's Sky" showcased a vision of a game where every planet, every ruin, and every celestial body was procedurally generated. While the initial implementation faced challenges, the current advancements in generative AI suggest that this vision may soon become a reality.
Maintaining Character Consistency
One of the key aspects of Google's research is the focus on maintaining character consistency. By leveraging techniques like custom character creation and ensuring that the generated characters remain visually coherent across different scenarios, the researchers aim to create a seamless and immersive player experience.
Consistent Environments and Semantic Alignment
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In addition to character consistency, the research also emphasizes the importance of environment consistency and semantic alignment. The generated environments must remain visually and thematically aligned with the player's actions and the overall narrative, creating a cohesive and believable world.
Advancements in AI Distillation
To achieve real-time performance, the researchers have made advancements in AI distillation. By training a smaller language model on a large number of gameplay scenarios, they have been able to create a model that performs on par with larger, more resource-intensive models, enabling smooth and responsive interactions.
The Potential of Real-Time AI Generation
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To illustrate the potential of real-time AI generation, the author showcases an experiment where a cartoon character is dynamically generated and interacts with various food items. This demonstration highlights the endless possibilities that await as AI-generated worlds become a reality in the near future.
The Future of Open-World Games
The author envisions a future where players will have unprecedented control over their gaming experiences. Imagine being able to customize your character, explore diverse environments, and interact with the world in ways that are limited only by your imagination. This shift towards AI-generated games promises to redefine the open-world gaming landscape, offering players a level of creativity and freedom never before seen.
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As the research and development in this field continue to progress, the gaming industry is poised for a transformative shift. The integration of advanced generative AI techniques into game design will pave the way for truly immersive and boundless narrative experiences, where the player becomes the architect of their own gaming universe.
The Man Behind NVIDIAs Global Emergence on How Countries Should Use AI | MOONSHOTS
#nvidia #technology #peterdiamandis
!summarize
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The Future of Business: How AI is Transforming Profitability and Efficiency
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the business world is undeniable. As we enter an era where "bigger is better," large companies with strong business models are poised to gain a significant competitive advantage through the strategic implementation of AI-driven solutions.
Supercharging Existing Business Models
One of the key ways AI is transforming businesses is by automating and streamlining core operations. Simple yet essential tasks, such as workflows, customer support, onboarding, and sales, can be automated, allowing already successful businesses to become even more profitable and efficient. This "blocking and tackling" approach can create trillions of dollars in value for the largest companies, as they leverage AI to supercharge their existing business models.
Practical Applications of AI in the Food Industry
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The integration of AI is particularly evident in the food industry, where companies are harnessing the power of technology to revolutionize the way food is prepared and served. For example, the speaker's company, which focuses on the "future of food," has developed a machine that can perform the tasks of the front-line workers at a restaurant like Chipotle. This robotic system can operate with minimal human intervention, with a single employee overseeing the machine's performance and even engaging in conversational interactions, as if the machine were an employee.
Disrupting Traditional Markets with AI-Driven Strategies
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Beyond the practical applications of AI, the speaker also reflects on how Uber, during his tenure as CEO, was exploring the use of AI to disrupt traditional transportation markets. The company was considering a "high-frequency trading" approach, where it would buy and sell transportation services from drivers, using AI-powered quant teams to optimize pricing and gain market share. This innovative strategy demonstrates the potential for AI to transform established industries and create new revenue streams.
Principles for Successful Innovation
When asked for advice on how to disrupt a marketplace, the speaker distills the key principles for successful innovation at speed and scale: truth, trust, and passion. These cultural values, he suggests, are essential for fostering a mindset that combines childlike curiosity, teenage rebelliousness, and the wisdom of experience – a powerful combination for driving transformative change.
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As the business world continues to evolve, the integration of AI-driven solutions is poised to reshape the landscape, empowering large companies to enhance their profitability and efficiency, while also creating opportunities for disruptive innovation across various industries. The future of business is undoubtedly intertwined with the advancements in AI, and those who embrace this technology with a strategic and visionary approach will be well-positioned to thrive in the years to come.
The Future of AI: Leaders from TikTok, Google & More Weigh In (FII Panel)
#ai #technology #future
!summarize
SpaceX Will Create Marslink as a First Step for Earth-Mars Communication
SpaceX will create Marslink as a first step towards greater than petabit per second communication between Earth and Mars.
Marslink aims to establish a high-speed data relay system—capable of transmitting 4 Mbps or more—across 1.5 astronomical units, the distance between Earth and Mars.
#mars #spacex #telecommunications #marslink
The system will use multiple satellites in Mars orbit and leverage Starlink’s advanced laser communication tech to maintain a constant, near-instantaneous data flow between planets.
This network could serve Mars missions, allowing real-time images and data streams from Mars to Earth, as well as supporting future ground operations and Mars orbit assets.
I dont have much HP yet, but I wamma show my support for Inleo!
#proposal #supporting
No matter how small your stake is, your vote matters!
Have a small delegation to support you in these early stages
XPENG, a Chinese car company, launched a humanoid robot with 60 joints that works on its EV production lines and may soon assist in stores and offices. The future is here
Fricking nuts... this last week my node got a new record of 4M transactions! Capacity usage wise this is very little, so keep it coming!
Loving it... #hive (99.99% hive-engine)
Leo Entertainment Threadcast.
#threadcast #leoentertainment #mcb 9/11/2024
New Paddington film charming but slow, critics say
#newsonleo #bbcnews #leoentertainment
The much-anticipated new Paddington in Peru film has had mixed reviews over its opening weekend, with critics calling it "charming-enough", but some agreeing the film struggles to reach the heights of its predecessors.
The film, that includes a return of much loved cast members including Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer and Hugh Bonneville, opened in UK cinemas on Friday 8 November.
The director of the first two Paddington films, Paul King, has since moved on to new projects including Wonka, starring Timothee Chalamet, but he is credited with writing this latest story alongside Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton.
Call of Duty director says Game Pass debut gives players new way in
#newsonleo #bbcnews #leoentertainment
The director of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 believes returning players might have contributed to what's been called the series' biggest-ever launch.
"What we've seen is it's allowed people that might have been on the fence, might have had some of that friction, might have been like, 'I haven't played in a while' to actually come back and try the game," he tells Newsbeat.
Greetings everyone!
Its drip day, how is the day going over with you?
It's all about entertainment friends ☺️☺️... Lets have fun and enjoy the weekend..
#thread2earn #leoentertainment
#freecompliments
We gat entertainment all around 😊😊😊..
That's my dearest friend, let's get entertained..
Its weekend friends, let's rock and roll all day long..
Party party party is all we need on weekend like this before we have stressed ourselves all week days....
#leoentertainment
How do you react when your favorite in onboard...
'Saturday Night Live' to take on a second Trump term after focusing on Harris
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/saturday-night-live-trump-term-after-focusing-harris-115666441
“Saturday Night Live" is likely to strike a new tone as it looks toward a second term for Donald Trump in its first episode since his election victory.
Standup comic and actor Bill Burr will host for the second time with Mk.gee as musical guest.
#leoentertainment #abcnews
But most eyes will be on the NBC sketch institution's cold open, and the signal it gives about what four more years will mean for the generally liberal-leaning show, other than steady employment for cast member James Austin Johnson, who does a Trump impression that has become definitive.
In the first five episodes of its 50th season, which has seen a ratings spike, the show openings made Vice President Kamala Harris — played by returning cast member Maya Rudolph — the central star, culminating last week in an appearance by Harris herself, with a giddy pre-election energy in the air.
This Saturday night could be a little less live.
After Trump's first election victory in 2016, Kate McKinnon, who played Hillary Clinton on the show, appeared as the losing candidate sitting at the piano and sang an almost entirely somber-and-serious version of Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah,” changing only one verse from the best-known versions of the song.
“And even though it all went wrong, I'll stand before the lord of song with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah,” McKinnon sang in what became a national moment of catharsis for those on the losing side.
After finishing, McKinnon said, with a shaky voice, “I'm not giving up and neither should you" before delivering the obligatory "live from New York, it's Saturday night!"
Standup comic Dave Chappelle hosted that episode. One sketch featured him and another Black comic-actor, Chris Rock, watching election returns with white liberals, who are shocked by the results, unlike their Black guests.
“This is the most shameful thing America has ever done,” white cast member Beck Bennett says at the end. Rock and Chappelle then look at each other and break into laughter.
Chappelle also hosted the post-election “SNL” in 2020, but this time that honor goes to another comic, Burr, who is currently on a major standup tour and is set to join Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk on Broadway this spring on a revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross,”
Burr's politics, at least as expressed through his comedy and frequent guesting on podcasts and talk shows, may be best described as angrily centrist. But other than the fake news of “Weekend Update,” the show tends to turn away from politics after the opening.
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This reminds me of the 101 dalmatians
Say yes to entertainment 😌😁😌..
Hello @sabrinah, how has your day been?
I hope he is going well?
😄😄😄
It's all about entertainment, #onlysab #onmymind is her tag, you can use it on you threads, you can also use the #freecompliments #bbh #dailydook tags on your thread too .. so many Dooks tokens await you...
Aww. Thanks for the promotion 😍
#onmymind #onlysab #freecompliments !DOOK !BBH
You just got DOOKed!
@sabrinah thinks your content is the shit.
They have 72/200 DOOK left to drop today.
Learn all about this shit in the toilet paper! 💩
You are most welcome 🤗🤗🤗..
This is one of the ways I entertain myself...
https://inleo.io/@calebmarvel01/need-for-speed-with-calebmarvel01-cops-chase--3p9?referral=calebmarvel01
From the Starting of the game to its ending, the Cop's were after me.... Lol..
Although caused damage to most of their cars...
it was a very interesting series and I know you would love to see more of it...
https://inleo.io/threads/view/calebmarvel01/re-leothreads-2qxqxxwwf?referral=calebmarvel01
@rollando.silva, its time for entertainment 😄😄😄.
Please you can miss it if you desire... Lol
i cant miss it for anything
😝😝😝😝😝...
So you can miss it for something.. lol
Sean 'Diddy' Combs seeks bail, citing changed circumstances and new evidence
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/sean-diddy-combs-seeks-bail-citing-changed-circumstances-115656441
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail.
#newsonleo #leoentertainment #abcnews
Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where his previous requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
He has been awaiting a May 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
In their new court filing, lawyers for Combs say they are proposing a “far more robust” bail package that would subject the entertainer to strict around-the-clock security monitoring and near-total restrictions on his ability to contact anyone but his lawyers. But the amount of money they attach to the package remains $50 million, as they proposed before.
They also cite new evidence that they say “makes clear that the government's case is thin.” That evidence, the lawyers said, refutes the government's claim that a March 2016 video showing Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred during a coerced “freak off,” a sexually driven event described in the indictment against Combs.
They wrote that the encounter was instead “a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship” between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
The lawyers argued that the jail conditions Combs is experiencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional rights to participate in his defense.
A spokesperson for prosecutors declined to comment.
Who is reading to watch some movies with us tonight?
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Check the threadcast, can you see the movie?
am i the only one not understanding english here
😂 😂
Can we get on it?
We are gonna hit it exactly 4:40 pm our local time... We click on the play button together...
where is everyone or am i the only one watching this
@calebmarvel01
We haven't started boy..... We will all give it a click exactly 4:40 pm
Have you started watching?
in the jungle
we haven't started ooh.
Shall we?
Lets go!!!
Hello @rollando.silva, where are you?
am here
no leave no transfer
HAve you started what's it?
yes broooo
Put your comments on the threadcast directly.
how do i do that sir
WhAt a hell is that creature?
Are you sure this is a movie or a narrative 😝😝😝.
its a narrative ooooo
not a movie
LEts check for another movie bro...
ok then i will be waiting
Lets get this stuff on deck 😉😺😉.
this is going to be fun
The lord of Elves is gonna be an interesting movie..
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-n8dpef8v?referral=rollando.silva
So much fun bro...
Sawediiii...
Is what kind of greetings?. 😄😄😄
These guys are human eaters....
They've come to the village to capture all the village... They came with dragons..
They've set the village ablaze..
jezzz
human eating machine
They eat humans for a living..
Asin
lets help the villagers off the fire na
Are you still in the fire section?
yes bro
my network got stuck
The villagers have been taking to the mountains were the giant lives..
This creature are ugly 🤣 🤣
thats the poison tree.
Short men everywhere 😅 😅
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-2lulwrcbj?referral=rollando.silva
You just need to sell your laptop and by network.. lol
sell your phone for me
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-27gxdsllv?referral=rollando.silva
Do you think you are taller than them?
Yes for sure
And boom the posion tree has killed one of the evil men
Rock of agess
They are tree people...
what in the hell are they hiding from
holy shit
big rino
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-2ggckalbw?referral=rollando.silva
They are hiding from some hunters..
and the short people have saved the day
Is that your grandma rino?
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-fzj6xjie?referral=rollando.silva
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-el26zwa6?referral=rollando.silva
They save their lives..
Her daughter is a planter...
am a waterer
They are doing spear throwing..
why is the king so wicked
Jesus
maybe there is a ttool to make u taller
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-je8bhdp9?referral=rollando.silva
He is trying to save his people in fear...
He is scared of the rock men..
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-rxwg6qgb?referral=rollando.silva
They are making guests of them the tree men.
what the hell
what a long distance
The hug guy just untired them..
yea i saw that
now the mission will be more intresting
I love the strength of the little girl, she keep encouraging his people..
yessss that true
That is how it is my dear... The jungle is strange..
how u wan take compare the speed of those that have short legs and those that have long ones
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-2znlmlpd3?referral=rollando.silva
HAhaha... I hope you sabi run naaaa..
what a huge spider
They are fighting with some giant spider...
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-2xutnf8ke?referral=rollando.silva
It would be good for food... Lol
for only u
lol
Its full moon tonight..
its half over here
i too like this his daughter
There is not peace for evil men..
normally
ooooh nooo not again network
They just lost one of their own..
what a pity
sorry about that, you can locate were you where..
sure
i dont want them to lose anyone again oo
The remaining people are going to the mountain..
yea am seeing them
jezzz what sort of meat is this
are you seeing those beasts?
yea i do
why will they be touturing my short friends
He was bitten by the beast...
jezzzzz
they have killed the beast
nice one
jezzzz
not again are they going to lose him again
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-2y1xki54x?referral=rollando.silva
Not now, the little girl will heal her...
ok let her do please
They are navigating another way..
they have gotten to the place
nice one
what a touture
what are they doing
they are about killing the tree people...
they just killed one of my short friends
nooooooooooo
what a painful treatment
Am weak..
SO painful 😭😭😭😭😭..
what a kill
The treatment is going on ...
its a deep injury
That was a good piercing..
they left only the daughter there with the man
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-17p2cegd?referral=rollando.silva
So that she can heal him.
the man is back on his feet
They are saying their last words..
what a ugly queen
they wan kill my guy
nooooo
i cant watch
The man survived it...
thank God
wonderful battle ongoing
i think the other Guy pretend to be dead..
really
they are all surrounded ooo
This is a bloody fight..
what a falll for that guy
they want to ride on their dragons..
the fight is getting more fantastic
the movie is coming to an end
That was a deadly fall
and boom they finally won the battle
The king has come with his people 😄😄😄..
is the king about to die
The husband and wife are happy again...
the king id dead ohh noooooooooooooooo
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-rbeuybfw?referral=rollando.silva
He needs to die so that they brave brack man will become a king...
they burn their king
jezzzzzzzz
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-26lqehd1p?referral=rollando.silva
That's their culture..
one is not dead oooh
This movie ended well...
what a nice shot boy
Chief chief 💪😁😁😁..
Gobly is making guitar..
finisheddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
He made a bow and arrow...
That's pretty cool
what a nice movie
It was so interesting bro!!
So wonderful
Go to our group for Whatsapp
looking forward to a next movie threadcast
https://inleo.io/threads/view/rollando.silva/re-calebmarvel01-2yz57lqb6?referral=rollando.silva
Hahaha this boy...
Did you want to watch another movie?
not today ooooooooo
make i go cry small
That was so interesting 😄😄😄..
Script
Thank God is drip day
Please @bradleyarrow, I need some drip to make my bones more flexible.
#freecompliments #dailydook for #onlysab
Ah. I just realized he is not on thread yet. I hope he is okay 🥺
We need some dripppp!!!!!
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Lol
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My dear, what to do naaa?
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!DIYSTATSWOah, Brazil is crazy right now. A guy was killed by criminals with assault rifles in the biggest airport in the country
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/08/americas/brazil-shooting-sao-paulo-airport-intl-latam/index.html
This is why we need a news threadcast.
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I just was right here and look at this 🤩🥹🥹🥹🥹 I spent more than 30 minutes and came back because of no batteries.. #photographers
Just wow!!! It is reallly beautiful. I wish you had enough battery to take more shots 🥰
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Lovely shot!
Elon Musk joined a call with Trump and Ukraine’s president Zelensky. They talked briefly and Zelensky thanked Musk for his Starlink help during the war. Things are looking good at least
Sick! @dcrops
Maybe the white stops can be light grey? Otherwise this theme is really the best dark mode!
El Salvador took a bold step with their Bitcoin strategy - while many criticized their decision, they may prove successful in the long run. If their economic initiatives pan out, they could become a leading economy in Latin America.
#btc $BTC #crypto
Just got back home after some early farming (dCrops)
lol
Da farm life man. !BBH !DIY Maybe find some !DOOK. #lolz
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!DIYSTATSI hope you didn't party too hard on Friday night, and share your #selfie in this #threadcast.
Good morning People #selfie
Another old picture
#thread2earn #freecompliments #selfie
Awesome!
Digging up old pictures
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I loved the outfit.
I don't like this better half very much
#selfis #memories
Maybe you are a different fruit!
yes, I think so jajaja
This is my favorite #memorie, #selfie with my dad
I´m back babe....#selfie, #memories
Who wants to get paid for a #selfie?
I want to
#selfis #memories
Keep trying! hahaha
of course I will keep trying
I was going to say good morning beautiful till I seen this pic. lol
Good morning grandpa. Hope you are having an amazing weekend?
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Noticed recently that when I sometimes click on peoples threads or a thread I made, this is what happens.
#feedback
I have noticed it too, but when you refresh it, is gonna come back to normal..
I refreshed it and nothing happened. It does do that everything do, just some of them.
When you click on the a thread and it shows you that, refresh it why is still showing it.. it works for me.. but I guess they will fix on it sooner...
Elon Musk says we can now build a new world on Mars with SpaceX's Starship, which is stronger and cheaper than NASA’s Saturn V rocket.
📚 Leo Book Club 🦁
#threadcast 46
Sat 09-Nov-24
ℹ️ This is the #bookcast where we chat all things #books
💬 Talk about what you've read, what you'd like to read and discuss the world of literature!
Happy reading! 📖
Happy weekend, and welcome to the Saturday BookCast! Share all your reading chat right here...
Yesterday's edition:
https://inleo.io/threads/view/leobooks/re-leothreads-98speyyw
Booker prize 2024: the six shortlisted books reviewed by our experts
Article via The Conversation
‘It will renew your faith in humanity’: books to bring comfort in dark times
Article via The Guardian
Children will read for pleasure if books are a source of joy
Article via Financial Times
Moonflower Murders author Anthony Horowitz interview: ‘At boarding school, books saved my life’
Article via The Telegraph
Books of the Year II
Article via The Spectator
The 8 'least popular' Agatha Christie books - Hercule Poirot stories are on the list
Article via Daily Express
Penguin Books fanatic to give talk on history of famous publisher
Article via Salisbury Journal
The best history books of 2024, from a lost England to Fascist Italy
Article via The Telegraph
News - Selection matters: World of Books branches out to meet customer needs
Article via The Bookseller
Top 5 books about the workplace, chosen by award-winning novelist Ross Raisin
Article via Big Issue
Check your Harry Potter books this weekend for 5 signs they're worth thousands
Article via My London
Deborah Levy’s new book shows why she’s the patron saint of women’s writing
Article via iNews
FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2024?
Article via Financial Times
Jamie Oliver apologises after his children’s book is criticised for ‘stereotyping’ First Nations Australians
Article via The Guardian
https://inleo.io/threads/view/ahmadmanga/re-leothreads-eutbxtdb
https://inleo.io/threads/view/jongolson/re-leothreads-2qrpkkaa2
https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-226we22vy?referral=adambarratt
https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-66-on-writing-well-by-william-zinsser-8sb
https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-kw2wakp6?referral=adambarratt
📚 ‘On Writing Well’ by William Zinsser
📖 The classic guide to writing nonfiction.
🎞️ Productivity Game YouTube channel give their review…
✈️ Travel Tales, Talk & Tips
#threadcast 89
Sat 09-Nov-24
ℹ️ This is the #travelcast where we chat all things #travel
💬 Talk about your trips, discuss adventures and enjoy the world's delights!
Bon voyage! 🧳 🛫
Happy weekend, and welcome to the Saturday TravelCast! Share all your travel chat here...
https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-2aqxz9wi
UK tourists told to avoid 'exclusion zone' after Foreign Office issues 'do not travel' warning
Article via Gloucestershire Live
The top 10 safest countries to travel to in 2025 - Spain doesn't make the cut
Article via Daily Express
Train company issues 'do not travel' warning again this weekend
Article via The Bolton News
Revealed! How you can travel across Europe for less on the Orient Express
Article via The Telegraph
Tanni Grey-Thompson to lead taskforce on air travel for disabled passengers
Article via The Guardian
I explored east Germany’s hip cities and Cold War relics – in the ultimate Communist car
Article via The Telegraph
TOPLINE TRAVEL: Laidback Lisbon
Article via Daily Mail
AI's growing role in tourism highlighted at World Travel Market Summit
Article via BW Hotelier
Elegance And Prestige: The 2024 Ultimate Luxury Travel Related Awards at Kensington Palace
Article via TTW
I've been to 33 countries solo as a woman — this is everything I've learnt
Article via London Evening Standard
This Is One Piece of Travel Gear You're Not Washing Enough
Article via Thrillist
The incredible new £2.4bn airport that should end travel chaos on popular tropical island
Article via Daily Express
4 ways to support Indigenous tourism in Canada
Article via Travel Weekly
https://inleo.io/threads/view/pele23/re-leothreads-trtmzuia
https://inleo.io/threads/view/bannersandborder/re-leothreads-2hnzec42i?referral=bannersandborder
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-2yvc5ejb2?referral=onealfa
We got another one
25 $LEO for the person that uses the #dailydook tag the most in threads today 🤑(note only your own threads with the tag are counted I can't easily find it when it's used in replies to others threads)
Winner announced 9pm EST
Only entireties made after this post count
DOOK hard and best of luck 🤞
!DOOK hard and gud to see man. !BBH !DIY
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!DIYSTATSBeen annoyingly busy at work the last couple of weeks. Almost 0 time for personal stuff. As I say, I'd rather be trying to shove wads of cash in my pocket than digging through the cushions for change!
This is why LeoChat is so important.
It is where things are going...and very quickly.
Thats cool. But one question? Isnt people still using Chrome for much longer time than Chatgpt?
Yes
Elon Musk want to be my friend on Facebook.
I'm going to space baby he just probably forgot his wallet and needs to borrow some money but he gonna pay me back 10x
lmfao
Answer his friend request , maybe he is one of your biggest fan ...lol
A #new #graffiti #streetart #photography #post #photographers
Saturday is Drip Day!
Probably the best day of the week. I got $LEO, $HIVE, $PIMP, $CTP and $GIFU.
#dripday #bbh #bestday @BradleyArrow
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I got GIFU today and that made my day
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Floods surge in Spanish town on day one of deadly floods
It’s hard to watch as floods took over the town of Paiporta in Spain. Seeing streets turn into rivers reminds me how fragile life can be. I hope the people there stay strong – facing nature’s power is tough. My heart goes out to them in this tough time.
#SpainFloods #ValenciaFloods
Aww. I received GIFU today. #dripday rocks 🔥🔥
#onmymind #onlysab #bbh #dailydook #freecompliments
It rocks to the soul....
Absolutely 🙌🏿🙌🏿
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!DIYSTATS#bbh #bbhweeklydrips
Thank you for the swap.hive and swap.GIFU token, @bradleyarrow
I got GIFU tokens too. I am excited 😊😊😊
Congrats on yours 🥳
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ADVICE by Buffett
Invest in what you understand, not in trends. He values simple businesses like Coca-Cola and chewing gum over complex tech. But if you understand complex tech then definitely do.
This is a good advice to note. I don't follow trends and won't even find myself in a business I have no knowledge about.
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Did you know that Stockholm is a c ity on Water?
The city is spread across 14 islands, connected by 57 bridges, and has 30% of its area covered by water.
You're biased 😂
Not sure what you mean 😂
Polyworking means having multiple jobs at once. It increases income, skills and job security but reduces burnout. It's flexible and brings new opportunities.
As soon as I hit 10HBD I'm gonna get Premium. It seems to be worth it big time :)
#HBD #premium #cent
You do have a long way to go though but good luck. It will definitely be worth it.
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Stake Based Curation
Drop your best gems, we'll assess depending on post quality.
For more info check below ⬇️
#leocuration
Stake based curation parameters
https://inleo.io/@logen9f/portrait-of-alan-turing-created-by-ai-sold-for-1m-9tm
https://inleo.io/@imfarhad/myhivegoals-progressing-slowly-jqj
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https://inleo.io/@vimukthi/google-trends-gifu-partnership-with-splinterlands-and-rebellion-promo-sales-4wk
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@bradleyarrow "Papa", are you sure am killing it here?
#freecompliments #dailydook
You didn't need to ask. Surely, he is 🔥🔥🔥
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How sure are you?
A 100%. No doubt. No fomo. 🙌🏿🙌🏿
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That's crazily pretty 🤣🤣🤣.. lol
You have no choice. I won. 😆
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!INDEED lol
Thanks Papa 😊😁😊😁..
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@calebmarvel01! @bradleyarrow Totally agrees with your content! so I just sent 1 IDD to your account on behalf of @bradleyarrow.
This was targeted to web3 in general then I realized we already have this on INLEO https://img.inleo.io/DQmaB3wAznqKqgW4pdBc2jDDfaXnh3FD7UEZtrcwwDfPUGw/onmymindonlysab%20(1).png
#onmymind #onlysab #freecompliments #dailydook
I am grateful to see another beautiful day. I will make it count.
#onmymind #onlysab #freecompliments #dailydook
So do I.
Have a great day
I am happy to know that. Have a great day too 🥰
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You too, sir. Say me well to your lovely daughter 😍
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BlackRock's total investment in Bitcoin ETFs ($33 billion) has surpassed its total investment in gold ETFs ($32 billion).
#feedback The upvote rewards breakdown still only shows the $LEO part of the rewards and not the $HIVE part. Wen fix? #cent #bbh #freecompliments
Surprising fact ab out Stockholm has more museums than rainy days!
With over 100 museums, it's a cultural haven for art lovers and history buffs.
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Apparently searching for terms from video titles with the filter last week or last 24 hours and watching the video, or searching for the channel itself ”Untangled Knots” and then clicking on and watching the most recent 2-3 shorts gives them the biggest boost, much bigger than clicking a link here.
Basically I’ve got to get the view/swipe back to 20% from 8%. At 10% already!
Would really appreciate if some friends could do this! No pressure of course ❤️
Save your video from hell got my attention.
So, instead of directing people through links, you need to find a way to make them search your account then watch a couple of videos?
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yes, that is a killer YouTube top btw, had to research a an experiment a lot to confirm !!!
All views appreciated? 🙏
The topic is a killer headline. No doubt about that.
I will check out your videos later. Good luck with your channel 🤗
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hahaha i meant tip, but thank you. Anyway, thanks and thanks and yayyyyy
I mean we should still search even if we have subscribed to the channel?
Will an already subscribed person add to the algorithm if he searches again?
I think it helps. When I did it and another subscribed friend did it it started recommending it to new people again although very very slowly
you'd want us to search instead of go to our subscribed channels?
Not necessary but it helps! Anything helps, especially viewing and liking the two most recent videos! No pressure though 🙏
I am just trying to get on the better side of this damn algorithm 😵
Scientists found that cells from parts of the body, not just the brain, can form memories. Because of this finding, they're looking at a different approach to treating memory problems.
This is a good find. Let's hope they succeed
Yes, I hope they do, everyday we move towards more solutions and that means better health for the future
Conversations with AI #threadcast (Day 36)
Here I'll be putting some of my conversations with #ChatGPT. I'll put them in both screenshots-form and text form. Mainly to give more data for LeoAI to eat from.
Feel free to use the threadcast to do the same! #freecompliments #cent #ai #bbh
Hello foodie Lions 🦁! Happy Saturday. Welcome to today's show. 🥗🍲🫕
This is the #threadcast for Day 137 of the #foodtalk on Leo 9/11/2024 for 8/11/2024. It's time for some meal inspirations and food conversation. Don't forget to use #foodtalk in your comments.
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More about food with tips and tricks will be dropped in the threadcast. Upvote the comments you find interesting & connect with others. Let's have fun. #foodie
Bucket-List Pasta Dishes From Around The World, 31-18 Ranked. 👈 Begin here.
17. Pasta puttanesca, Italy
Popular in Naples and Southern Italy, puttanesca is a fantastic last-minute summer meal that can be made mostly with what you’d expect to find in a typical Italian kitchen. Ripe, juicy tomatoes are cooked with anchovies, salty capers, oregano and tasty Gaeta olives for the ultimate savory kick. Incredibly simple and rich in flavor, the sauce complements most types of pasta, though it's typically served with spaghetti. A grating of cheese is optional – but who could resist?
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Puttanesca pasta is one of the richest pasta inherited from Italy. Thanks for sharing, @winanda. #foodtalk
Oh, I'm glad to know this. I found out that most pasta dishes are from Italy and it feels like Italy owns the pasta dish. I will do more research on that. You're welcome, @josemalavem
Happy Sunday.
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16. Älplermagronen, Switzerland
Translated into English as ‘Alpine macaroni,’ älplermagronen is mac ‘n’ cheese’s creamier sibling – combining macaroni with potatoes, cheese, cream and onions to create an ultra-comforting bowlful. While pasta has been popular in Switzerland for centuries, this carb-loaded creation is thought to date back to the 1930s. These days, you're likely to find it dished up in mountain town restaurants, topped with crispy onions and bacon, and served with a side of homemade apple sauce.
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15. Fettuccine Alfredo, Italy and USA
Though it was invented in Rome in the early 20th century, this fabulously rich dish is particularly popular in the United States, where you’ll find extra-creamy variations featuring the likes of chicken, fish or shrimp. Meanwhile, back in Italy, the recipe calls only for Parmesan and plenty of butter; as the two ingredients melt together, they emulsify into a thick, silky sauce, to which long, flat ribbons of pasta are added. It's as simple as it is delicious – and due to its luxurious nature, it often requires a post-meal nap.
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14. Cacio e pepe, Italy
Cacio e pepe is a traditional Roman dish whose roots stretch back centuries. But what's in it? The clue's in the name – cacio is Italian for cheese, while pepe simply means pepper. However, despite its limited ingredients, there's an art to making it, involving careful stirring and gauging the correct amount of starchy pasta water to be added to the mix. Once you've navigated these steps successfully, all that remains is to toss in your pasta and stir until fully coated.
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13. Uni pasta, Japan
A luxurious creation found in Japan's fanciest restaurants, uni pasta (pronounced 'ooh-nee') is an irresistibly rich combination of spaghetti, cream, white wine and uni: spiny purple sea urchins harvested from the Pacific waters around Hokkaido. Sweet, briny and bright orange on the inside, uni taste a little like scallops or oysters, and they lend a buttery texture and savory umami flavor to this otherwise simple dish.
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12. Gratin de crozets, France
This creamy delicacy hails from the Savoie region of South East France – an area that's known not only for its distinctive cheeses, but also its very own pasta, crozets de Savoie. To make gratin de crozets, the small, flat, square pasta shapes are cooked in chicken stock, then mixed with onions, lardons and crème fraiche. A local cheese, typically Beaufort or Tomme, is placed on top before the sumptuous dish is baked to perfection in the oven.
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11. Spaghetti alla vongole, Italy
This light and tasty dish has two key ingredients: spaghetti (sometimes linguine) and clams. It can be prepared either 'in bianco' (cooked in garlic, white wine and parsley) or 'in rosso,' with added tomatoes and basil. Simple and delicious, spaghetti alla vongole hails from the coastal regions of Southern Italy, where clams were eaten in broths long before pasta arrived on the scene. In the US, spaghetti alla vongole is sometimes made with cream – or even cheese – though Italians would consider these additions unnecessary.
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10. Giouvetsi, Greece
Orzo, also known as risoni, is a type of pasta that resembles large grains of rice. Its versatility makes it a popular choice for all sorts of recipes, from salads and soups to risotto-like creations. In Greece it's used as the base for giouvetsi, a tomatoey dish that sees chicken, lamb or beef cooked with onions, garlic, stock and wine in a clay pot called a güveç. Full of flavor and incredibly warming, it makes an excellent winter meal.
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9. Ravioli, Italy
Generally square or round in shape, these pasta pockets can be stuffed with everything from pumpkin to prosciutto. Whatever your preference, a pack of ravioli makes for an easy and delicious meal, either smothered in a sauce or packed into a hearty soup. There are endless traditional and modern recipes to try – four-cheese ravioli, ricotta ravioli (served with a meaty ragù) and herby pansotti (served with a walnut sauce) to name a few.
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8. Fideuà, Spain
If you’re a fan of paella but you’ve never heard of or tried fideuà, then you’re in for a treat. This Valencian dish features an abundance of seafood and lemon, much like paella, but the rice is swapped out for hollow pasta tubes. Fideuà was apparently invented by accident in the early 1900s; the story goes that a fishing boat cook was preparing paella when he realized he didn’t have any rice. Thinking quickly, he subbed in pasta, and a new culinary icon was born.
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7. Pasta pomodoro, Italy
Pomodoro is Italian for tomato, so it’s no surprise that this fast, fresh pasta dish is basically just tomatoes and pasta. Sure, there’s typically olive oil, basil, salt and garlic in there, but the tomatoes are the stars of the show. It’s a dish that dates back to the early 19th century, when savvy Neapolitan street vendors first had the ingenious idea of introducing tomatoes to noodles. Since then, pasta pomodoro has become a national icon enjoyed throughout Italy.
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6. Spaghetti Bolognese, UK and USA
Named after the Italian city of Bologna (though it bears little resemblance to traditional Italian ragù alla bolognese), spaghetti Bolognese is a hearty affair consisting of pasta noodles in a rich meat sauce made from ground beef, tomatoes, herbs, garlic, onion and celery. It's unclear whether the recipe originated in the UK or USA, but Brits in particular have a soft spot for the dish, commonly referring to it as ‘spag bol.' It’s generally served with spaghetti and heaps of grated Parmesan – or, if you're in the UK, Cheddar cheese.
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Cannelloni, Italy
Translated into English as 'big reeds,' cannelloni is thought to have been invented by chef Nicola Federico in Sorrento, near Naples. Traditionally considered a Sunday dish, it was originally known as strascinati (from the Italian word strascinare, meaning 'to pull'), but its name changed to cannelloni during the Second World War, when many Neapolitans settled in Sorrento. These large pasta tubes are typically filled with a mixture of spinach and ricotta (or a rich beef ragù), covered in béchamel, then baked.
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4. Mac 'n' cheese, Italy and UK
Macaroni and cheese's roots stretch all the way back to the 14th century, when recipes for cheese and pasta casseroles began to appear in Italy and Medieval England. However, the first recipe for mac 'n' cheese as we know it today featured in Elizabeth Raffald's 1769 book The Experienced English Housekeeper. These days, the dish is immensely popular in the USA; it was introduced to the country in the late 18th century by James Hemings, a chef enslaved by former president Thomas Jefferson. It's equally popular in Canada, too, where Kraft Dinner – a brand of boxed mac 'n' cheese – is considered an unofficial national dish.
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3. Pasta alla carbonara, Italy
The exact origins of pasta alla carbonara are a little murky, but it's thought that the dish was created to make the most of military rations in occupied Rome during the Second World War. Its ingredients traditionally include fatty cured pork, eggs and pecorino romano hard cheese – but these days, you’ll sometimes find ham or bacon used in place of the cured pork, and Parmesan or Grana Padano instead of pecorino. The secret to making it? Fresh raw egg yolks are stirred through the hot pasta.
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2. Käsespätzle, various locations
Käsespätzle sees spätzle (circular egg pasta) smothered in a rich cheese blend, creating a creamy, warming dish that never fails to hit the spot. This classic comfort food is enjoyed across Europe – in countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary – so the cheese blend varies, but usually includes two or more styles (often Emmental and Edam). You’ll usually find this indulgent meal finished with a generous helping of savory-sweet caramelized onions
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1. Lasagne, Italy
Everyone loves a good lasagne. Lasagne sheets are thought to be one of the oldest forms of pasta, dating back to ancient Rome – and the dish itself originated in Italy in the Middle Ages, appearing in the 14th-century cookbook Liber de Coquina ('The Book of Cookery'). To make a traditional lasagne, the sheets are layered up in a dish with alternating fillings of ground meat, tomato sauce, béchamel and a variety of cheeses, including mozzarella and Parmesan. These days, the dish is beloved worldwide.
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Welcome friends to the #foodtalk on Leo. The weekend is here again and it's time for another #food conversation. Join share your food experience and other food-relatedfoo content and earn some rewards.
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