In a Washington Post op-ed last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized the urgent need for the U.S. and its allies to lead the development of “democratic AI” to counter the rise of “authoritarian AI” models (source paywalled; alternative source). He outlined four key steps for this effort: enhancing security Read more…
“Scientists working with NASA’s Perseverance rover state emphatically that they are not claiming to have discovered life on Mars,” writes the New York Times. “But many would regard a rock that the rover just finished studying as ‘Most Likely to Contain Fossilized Microbial Martians’…” The rover has drilled and stashed Read more…
The BBC are reporting sharks have tested positive for cocaine. Thirteen sharpnose sharks which were captured off the coast near Rio de Janeiro. They were tested for the drug in liver and muscle tissue samples — and returned positive results at concentrations as much as 100 times higher than previously Read more…
Speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a number of cryptocurrency-related pledges. In a speech which lasted for over an hour, the 78-year-old former president also criticized his political opponents, touching on topics like inflation, immigration, and his promise to “drill, baby, drill.” But Read more…
Former U.S. president Donald Trump spoke at Nashville’s Bitcoin Conference on Saturday. But he wasn’t the only one there making headlines, according to a local newspaper called the Tennesseean: Republican Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Tim Scott pledged their resolute support for the cryptocurrency industry at Nashville’s Bitcoin2024 conference Friday — Read more…
Tuesday Meta released Llama 3.1, its largest open-source AI model to date. But just one day Mistral released Large 2, notes this report from TechCrunch, “which it claims to be on par with the latest cutting-edge models from OpenAI and Meta in terms of code generation, mathematics, and reasoning… “Though Read more…