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🔓 Elon Musk to open source his AI chatbot
🎮 Controversial former Activision Blizzard CEO could buy TikTok with help from Sam Altman
🦾 OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans
✈️ Unmanned aircraft test brings hypersonic era closer
📈 Bitcoin hits record above $71,000 as demand frenzy intensifies
🙃 EU’s use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rules
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🔓 Elon Musk to open source his AI chatbotLINK
Elon Musk announced that xAI will make its Grok chatbot open source this week, offering it to Premium+ subscribers on X without detailing the reasons for this decision. This move continues Musk's history of open-sourcing company technology, aiming to foster wider adoption and improvement through community feedback, similar to Tesla's open patent strategy and X's publication of its algorithmic feed code. The decision to open source Grok comes amidst Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing it of abandoning its non-profit origins for profit, contrasting with his actions to promote open-source practices.
🎮 Controversial former Activision Blizzard CEO could buy TikTok with help from Sam AltmanLINK
Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard, is reportedly interested in buying TikTok amid threats of a U.S. ban or forced sale of the app.
Kotick has discussed the potential purchase with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ByteDance Executive Chair Zhang Yiming, and the sale could value TikTok in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
The interest in buying TikTok comes as the U.S. considers the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act," which could lead to TikTok being sold or banned.
🦾 OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humansLINK
An OpenAI spinoff called Covariant has developed a new AI model, RFM-1, which aims to combine large language models' reasoning abilities with advanced robotic dexterity to help robots learn tasks similarly to humans.
RFM-1 was trained on data from Covariant's fleet of item-picking robots and internet content, enabling it to understand and execute tasks based on various inputs such as text, images, and videos.
The model represents a significant advancement in robotics, moving away from complex, task-specific coding towards a more flexible, human-like learning approach, with the potential for continual learning and refinement.
✈️ Unmanned aircraft test brings hypersonic era closerLINK
Stratolaunch successfully conducted the first powered test flight of its unmanned Talon-A-1 vehicle, reaching speeds near Mach 5, marking a significant advancement in hypersonic research. The Talon-A-1, launched from the six-engine carrier aircraft Roc, completed its mission by safely landing in the ocean, with plans for future versions to land on runways for reuse. This test represents a major milestone in developing the United States' first privately funded, reusable hypersonic test capability, with Stratolaunch having contracts with the US Air Force Research Laboratory and the Navy.
📈 Bitcoin hits record above $71,000 as demand frenzy intensifiesLINK
Bitcoin reached a new high surpassing $71,000 due to a surge in demand and anticipation of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut.
The inflow of nearly $2 billion into the top 10 U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds indicates growing investment interest.
Upcoming halving event expected to tighten Bitcoin's supply and asset managers now hold record bullish positions in bitcoin futures.
🙃 EU’s use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rulesLINK
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) concluded that the European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 breached several of the EU's data protection rules.
EDPS has mandated the European Commission to correct compliance issues by December 9, 2024, and to suspend all data flows to non-EU countries lacking an adequacy decision.
The investigation highlighted issues such as insufficient clarity on data collected, lack of adequate safeguards for data transfer, and failure to limit data processing to specific purposes.
Other news you might like
Jensen Huang says even free AI chips from his competitors can't beat Nvidia's GPUs.LINK
Nvidia faces lawsuit from authors over alleged copyright infringement in AI models.LINK
Potential ‘meme stock’ Reddit to raise ~$748M in IPO, will let Redditors sell shares immediately.LINK
Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year.LINK
Surgeons perform UK's first operation using Apple's Vision Pro headset.LINK
Once India's most valuable start-up, Byju's is now fighting to survive.LINK
Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras.LINK
Latest research and tools
Monte-Carlo Graph Search (MCGS): extends the Monte-Carlo Tree Search methodology to function efficiently with directed graphs by sharing computation across transposed positions, offering a more intuitive and potentially more optimizable approach for handling state spaces with many transpositions.LINK
PaperMC/Paper: the most widely used, high-performance Minecraft server that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies and allows for significant performance improvements and customization.LINK
Glitter: a decentralized database service that utilizes Tendermint for building and managing distributed databases.LINK
RE3: a fully reversed-engineered source code project for GTA III and Vice City, functioning on multiple platforms and architectures, requiring original game assets to run, and offering enhancements and mod compatibility.LINK
Gitu: a terminal user interface (TUI) Git client inspired by Magit, aiming to bring key features of Magit to the terminal with a focus on being user-friendly for both newcomers and experienced Magit users.LINK
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