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OpenAI has held early discussions with investors about a financing
round that would precede the company's highly anticipated initial
public offering expected next year. The new funding round, which could
value the company at more than $1.2 trillion, has been delayed due to
concerns about AI safety. OpenAI has reached more than one billion
active users, with more than 200 million businesses using its models.
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carrying 26 of the larger V3 Starlink satellites into orbit 275
kilometers above Earth. The upper stage will seek to complete six
orbits around Earth before completing its mission after about 10
hours. SpaceX will not attempt a return of the upper stage to the
launch site in Texas on this mission, as it plans to gather more data
about heat shield performance.
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IS THERE ANYTHING A FRUIT FLY BRAIN CAN'T DO? (6 MINUTE READ) [10]
Researchers at the Janelia Research Campus at the Howard Hughes
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published a new map of the adult male fruit fly's brain. The effort,
which involved hundreds of scholars, resulted in a complete map of the
fly's 166,000 neurons that can be trained to complete tasks like
solving a Rubik's Cube or playing poker. Internet engineers and
artists have made the model complete many seemingly impossible tasks
for a fruit fly, like parallel parking a car, playing Doom, and
trading cryptocurrencies.
AGILITY'S NEW HUMANOID ROBOT WILL STOP, SQUAT TO AVOID HARMING HUMAN
COWORKERS (5 MINUTE READ) [11]
Agility Robotics has debuted a humanoid robot engineered to work
safely near humans without risking harm to their co-workers. The robot autonomously takes precautions when it detects a person at a distance,
such as moving to avoid the person or standing still so the person can
pass without getting closer. It can even choose to squat and assume a
seated position if a person is getting too close. The robot will be
available in early access within the first half of 2027 and become
generally available by the end of the year.
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GOOGLE RELEASED GEMINI 3.8 LIVE AND 3.8 LIVE EXTENDED THINKING TODAY
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Google has released two new speech-to-speech models similar to
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Thinking are advanced live dialogue models with major upgrades in
intelligence and parallel reasoning. They are more intuitive to
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MISCELLANEOUS
MARK ZUCKERBERG TAKES AIM AT ANTHROPIC IN DEBATE OVER AI SLOWDOWN (3
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Mark Zuckerberg made a social media post on Tuesday, saying that
calls to pause AI development industrywide were the wrong approach. He
said that every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at
the pace required to train its models safely. He acknowledged the
risks of AI, but said companies were already incentivized to keep
users safe and slow progress on their own. Meta has been aiming to
catch up in the AI race after falling behind Anthropic and OpenAI last
year. It plans to release a new model, internally called Watermelon,
in the coming weeks.
SENATE VOTES TO BLOCK CRYPTO BILL IN MAJOR BLOW TO THE INDUSTRY (4
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The US Senate has voted to block consideration of the Clarity Act, a
piece of legislation that would create business-friendly rules for cryptocurrencies. The vote makes it unlikely the legislation will pass
anytime soon, if ever. Many Republicans embraced the bill, but
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to prevent public officials from using crypto to make money. President
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year.
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