Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Researchers Boost LLM Reasoning Skills by Getting Them to ‘Think’ During Pre-trainingBen Dickson | VentureBeat
“This strategy encourages the mannequin to ‘suppose for itself earlier than predicting what comes subsequent, thus educating an impartial considering conduct earlier within the pretraining,’ the researchers state of their paper. [Models trained like this] present vital enhancements in studying advanced reasoning duties downstream, hinting at a way forward for extra succesful and adaptable AI for real-world duties.”
Biotechnology
Scientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. Could They Do It in Humans?Gayoung Lee | Gizmodo
“[In their a paper the researchers] describe how, by harnessing the mind’s rubbish disposal system, they managed to restore the mind and reverse the progress of the illness within the animals. Particularly, they used nanotechnology to focus on and restore the mind’s ‘vascular gatekeeper,’ the blood-brain barrier, which protects the mind from toxins and streamlines blood circulation out and in of the mind.”
Robotics
Can These Self-Flying Planes Transform the Skies?Andrew Tangel | The Wall Road Journal ($)
“If all goes as deliberate, Dependable Robotics ultimately received’t want any pilots on board its planes. It’s amongst startups vying to revolutionize air journey by putting off the necessity for human pilots on cargo, navy, and possibly even passenger plane. Autonomous flight is being examined at corporations from large plane makers to small startups.”
Computing
OpenAI, Jony Ive Struggle With Technical Details on Secretive New AI GadgetTim Bradshaw, Cristina Criddle, Michael Acton, and Ryan McMorrow, Monetary Instances | Ars Technica
“Regardless of having {hardware} developed by Ive and his crew—whose alluring designs of the iMac, iPod, and iPhone helped flip Apple into one of the crucial helpful corporations on this planet—obstacles stay within the gadget’s software program and the infrastructure wanted to energy it. These embody deciding on the assistant’s ‘character,’ privateness points, and budgeting for the computing energy wanted to run OpenAI’s fashions on a mass shopper gadget.”
Tech
The AI Spending Boom Doesn’t (Entirely) Deserve Comparisons to Past FrenziesLiz Hoffman | Semafor
“A lot of the AI funding is coming from tech giants spending the earnings produced by their dominant companies in promoting (Google and Meta), software program (Microsoft), and cloud computing (Microsoft and Amazon). These money cows aren’t fairly created equal—AI lifts cloud companies and threatens to completely upend promoting—however all are wholesome sufficient to again the checks their homeowners are writing.”
Tech
OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular DealsEmily Forgash | Bloomberg ($)
“The latest wave of offers and partnerships involving the 2 are escalating issues that an more and more advanced and interconnected internet of enterprise transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI growth. At stake is nearly each nook of the financial system, with the hype and buildout of AI infrastructure rippling throughout markets, from debt and fairness to actual property and vitality.”
Tech
OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating SystemLauren Goode | Wired ($)
“The brand new SDK announcement alerts a deeper dedication to working with established enterprises and app makers—and an emphasis on holding customers inside ChatGPT itself. If the online and cell eras of the previous 30 years have been outlined by customers searching the online or being locked right into a cell app expertise, OpenAI is now combining the 2 into its personal sort of chat-driven working system.”
Robotics
The World Is Just Not Quite Ready for Humanoids YetRebecca Szkutak | TechCrunch
“In a latest essay, [Rodney] Brooks calls out the billions of enterprise {dollars} being poured into humanoid robotic corporations like Determine. …His take would possibly shock some, particularly these VCs investing within the sector. However not the a number of robotics-focused VCs and AI scientists who’ve advised TechCrunch in latest months that they don’t anticipate to see vast adoption of humanoid robots for no less than a number of years—if no more than a decade.”
Future
The Future of AI Isn’t Just SlopChristopher Beam | Wired ($)
“Neural Viz grew to become a cult hit—a favourite of Redditors and AI nerds on Twitter—then a hit-hit, with particular person movies racking up tons of of hundreds of views on YouTube and hundreds of thousands on TikTok and Instagram. However past any measures of recognition, Neural Viz counts as a historic accomplishment: It’s among the many first items of AI filmmaking that really doesn’t suck.”
Computing
The Vision Pro Was An Expensive Misstep. Now Apple Has to Catch Up With Smart GlassesBoone Ashworth | Wired ($)
“In response to an inside announcement reported in Bloomberg by serial Apple leaker Mark Gurman, Apple has deprioritized efforts to make a lighter, extra inexpensive model of its Imaginative and prescient Professional headset in favor of specializing in AI-enabled good glasses. Apple now appears to be aiming to launch a pair of Meta-style good glasses in 2027, with one other pair that includes a show on the lens aimed for launch in 2028—if not earlier than.”
