Meta’s Superintelligence Labs has released the first AI-model.
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1 Meta launches the Superintelligence Labs’ first AI model
The company has released its first new model since last year, the Muse Spark.
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Meta AI now has reasoning abilities thanks to the closed model. (Engadget)
The unit headed by Alexandre Wang, Meta’s Superintelligence Labs is responsible for its development. (TechCrunch)
The Pentagon has blacklisted 2 Anthropic
The request was denied by an appeals court located in Washington DC. (CNBC)
In March, a Californian judge temporarily blocked blacklisting. ( NPR)
Anthropic is left in legal limbo by the mixed verdicts. (Wired $)
+ And open doors for smaller AI rivals. (Reuters $)
Adam Back is the inventor of Bitcoin according to new evidence
Satoshi may actually be a British cryptographer. (NYT $)
Back disputes the allegations. (BBC)
The permissionless crypto dream has a darker side. (MIT Technology Review)
AI is not for Gen Z
In a single year, the share of people who are angry has increased from 22% up to 31%. (Axios)
Anti-AI protests also continue to grow. (MIT Technology Review)
The cloud race could be skewed toward China if the Gulf War occurs
Huawei pitches “multi-cloud resilience” to Gulf customers.
Rest of World
Meta 6 has removed a leaderboard for its token AI users
The top 250 users were shown. The Information Dollar
Meta has blamed the shutdown on data leaks. (Fortune)
This encouraged a phenomenon known as “tokenmaxxing” that is growing in Big Tech. (NYT $)
Artemis II: Did it really teach us something new?
Was it mostly a public relations exercise? (Ars Technica)
The digital infrastructure of Lebanon has been brutally attacked by Israel in 8 attacks
It is managing a crisis of the modern age without using modern technology. (Wired $)
AI models can offer mathematicians an international language
The hope is that it will make the verification of proofs easier. (Economist)
The “self-doxing” rave helps transgender people to stay safe on the internet
This is one of a number of self-defense digital tools. (404 Media)
Today’s Quote
Even in a few years, I feel that anything of interest to me could be replaced.
Sydney Gill, a Rice University freshman, explains to the New York Times her distaste for AI.
Another Thing
View inside ATLAS
One of the two detectors used for general purposes at the Large Hadron Collider.
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The world’s biggest particle collider is on the lookout for new physics
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, discovered the Higgs Boson in 2012. This discovery was the answer to a long-standing question. Where do the fundamental particles that are the basis of all protons and neutrons in our body get their mass from?
Now, particle physicists are at a dead end in their efforts to produce and discover new particles using colliders.
Learn what’s being done about it.
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