{"id":13916,"date":"2024-09-30T03:21:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=13916"},"modified":"2024-09-30T03:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T03:21:18","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-september-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=13916","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2024\/09\/25\/1104465\/a-tiny-new-open-source-ai-model-performs-as-well-as-powerful-big-ones\/\"><strong>A Tiny New Open-Source AI Model Performs as Well as Powerful Big Ones<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Melissa Heikkil\u00e4<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">archive web page<\/span> | MIT Know-how Evaluate<br \/><\/em>\u201c[The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)] claims that its largest Molmo mannequin, which has 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o, which is estimated to have over a trillion parameters, in assessments that measure issues like understanding photos, charts, and paperwork. In the meantime, Ai2 says a smaller Molmo mannequin, with 7 billion parameters, comes near OpenAI\u2019s state-of-the-art mannequin in efficiency, an achievement it ascribes to vastly extra environment friendly information assortment and coaching strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24253908\/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo-mark-zuckerberg-interview\"><strong>Hands On With Orion, Meta\u2019s First Pair of AR Glasses<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Alex Heath | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">They give the impression of being\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">virtually<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0like a traditional pair of glasses.\u00a0<\/span>That\u2019s the very first thing I discover as I stroll right into a convention room at Meta\u2019s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The black Clark Kent-esque frames sitting on the desk in entrance of me look unassuming, however they signify CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s multibillion-dollar wager on the computer systems that come after smartphones. They\u2019re known as Orion, they usually\u2019re Meta\u2019s first pair of augmented actuality glasses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/parallel-processing-unit\"><strong>Startup Says It Can Make a 100x Faster CPU<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Dina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum<br \/><\/em>\u201cAs an alternative of making an attempt to hurry up computation by placing 16 an identical CPU cores into, say, a laptop computer, a producer might put 4 commonplace CPU cores and 64 of Stream Computing\u2019s so-called parallel processing unit (PPU) cores into the identical footprint, and obtain as much as 100 instances higher efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/openai-chief-technology-officer-resigns-7a8b4639\"><strong>OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Deepa Seetharaman, Berber Jin, Tom Dotan | The Wall Avenue Journal<br \/><\/em>\u201cOpenAI is planning to transform from a nonprofit group to a for-profit firm on the identical time it&#8217;s present process main personnel shifts together with the abrupt resignation Wednesday of its chief expertise officer, Mira Murati. Changing into a for-profit can be a seismic shift for OpenAI, which was based in 2015 to develop AI expertise \u2018to profit humanity as a complete, unconstrained by a have to generate monetary return,\u2019 in accordance with a press release it revealed when it launched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/epfl-lasa\"><strong>Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em><span class=\"font-medium\">Evan Ackerman<\/span> | IEEE Spectrum<br \/><\/em>\u201cOne of many nice issues about robots is that they don\u2019t must be constrained by our constraints, and at ICRA@40 in Rotterdam this week, we noticed a novel new\u00a0Factor: a robotic hand that may detach from its arm after which crawl round to understand objects that might be in any other case out of attain, designed by\u00a0roboticists from EPFL in Switzerland.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beyond Manual Dexterity: Designing a Multi-fingered Robotic Hand for Grasping and Crawling\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xBnIZkclI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>SECURITY<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2024\/09\/23andme-dna-data-privacy-sale\/680057\/\"><strong>Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Kristen V. Brown | The Atlantic<br \/><\/em>\u201c23andMe is\u00a0not doing nicely. Its inventory is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit final month, solely the newest in a number of rounds of layoffs. Final week, the\u00a0total board of administrators\u00a0give up, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the corporate\u2019s CEO. Amid this downward spiral, Wojcicki\u00a0has mentioned\u00a0she\u2019ll contemplate promoting 23andMe\u2014which implies the DNA of 23andMe\u2019s 15 million clients can be up on the market, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/an-ultrathin-graphene-brain-implant-was-just-tested-in-a-person\/\"><strong>An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Emily Mullin | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201cTwenty years [after its discovery], graphene is lastly making its manner into batteries, sensors, semiconductors, air conditioners, and even headphones. And now, it\u2019s being examined on individuals\u2019s brains. This [week], surgeons on the College of Manchester briefly positioned a skinny, Scotch-tape-like implant fabricated from graphene on the affected person\u2019s cortex\u2014the outermost layer of the mind. Made by Spanish firm InBrain Neuroelectronics, the expertise is a sort of brain-computer interface, a tool that collects and decodes mind alerts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/worlds-first-3d-printed-hotel-takes-shape-texas-2024-09-26\/\"><strong>First 3D-Printed Hotel Ever Is Underway in Texas<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Evan Garcia | Reuters<br \/><\/em>\u201cIt appears like some other 3D printer\u2014besides it\u2019s the scale of a crane and is, layer by layer, constructing a lodge within the Texan desert. El Cosmico, an current lodge and campground on the outskirts of the town of Marfa, is increasing. It&#8217;s constructing 43 new lodge items and 18 residential houses over 60 acres (24 hectares)\u2014all with a 3D printer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2024\/09\/ai-defeats-traffic-image-captcha-in-another-triumph-of-machine-over-man\/\"><strong>AI Bots Now Beat 100% of Those Traffic-Image CAPTCHAs<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Kyle Orland | Ars Technica<br \/><\/em>\u201cWhereas there have been earlier tutorial research trying to make use of image-recognition fashions to resolve reCAPTCHAs, they have been solely in a position to succeed between 68 to 71 p.c of the time. The rise to a 100% success charge \u2018reveals that we are actually formally within the age past captchas,\u2019 in accordance with the brand new paper\u2019s authors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@victor_g?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Victor<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/super-groove-tree-gardens-by-the-bay-VnFGmctBs1s?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/09\/28\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-september-28\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tiny New Open-Source AI Model Performs as Well as Powerful Big OnesMelissa Heikkil\u00e4archive web page | MIT Know-how Evaluate\u201c[The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)] claims that its largest Molmo mannequin, which has 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o, which is estimated to have over a trillion parameters, in assessments that measure issues like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,4372,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-13916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-september","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}