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🤖 New robot can chat, see, plan, and perform tasks
🙃 OpenAI CTO Mira Murati doesn't know what data Sora was trained on
⚖️ Judge rules computer scientist not Bitcoin inventor
💡 AI start-up unveils “world’s fastest” AI chip
🥷 Meta sues “brazenly disloyal” former exec over stolen confidential docs
🛡 Microsoft releases security AI product to help clients track hackers
🎁 + 10 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 New robot can chat, see, plan, and perform tasksLINK
Figure, in collaboration with OpenAI, has developed "Figure 01," a robot capable of holding conversations, planning, executing actions, and interpreting its environment through a multimodal model.
The robot's technology allows it to understand context-dependent requests, describe visual experiences, and perform actions based on conversations and past images.
Figure 01's actions are powered by visuomotor transformers, enabling it to process visual information and execute tasks with high degrees of freedom in real-time.
🙃 OpenAI CTO Mira Murati doesn't know what data Sora was trained onLINK
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati told the Wall Street Journal that Sora's video AI is trained on public and licensed data. However, she was not sure if that included videos from YouTube or Facebook, and would not provide examples. This is relevant because OpenAI is currently facing lawsuits from authors and the New York Times, among others, who claim that their copyrighted works were used to train AI models without permission. OpenAI argues that the use of copyrighted data falls under fair use rules and is essential for training state-of-the-art AI models.
⚖️ Judge rules computer scientist not Bitcoin inventorLINK
A U.K. judge ruled that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, in a trial involving the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) backed by Jack Dorsey.
COPA argued in court that Wright had fabricated his identity as the creator of Bitcoin through an "extraordinary scale" of lies and forgery, including producing forged documents.
Wright had previously sued 13 Bitcoin Core developers and several companies for copyright violations relating to Bitcoin, amidst claims his lawsuits against Bitcoin contributors were abusive and frivolous.
💡 AI start-up unveils “world’s fastest” AI chipLINK
Cerebras Systems has introduced the WSE-3, a new AI chip that doubles the performance of its predecessor while maintaining the same power consumption, featuring 4 trillion transistors and a 50 percent increase in transistor density compared to prior models. The WSE-3 chip is manufactured using TSMC's 5-nanometer technology and can train neural network models with up to 24 trillion parameters without relying on software tricks. Cerebras has partnered with Qualcomm to make AI inference ten times cheaper, aiming to optimize AI models on CS-3 systems before running them on Qualcomm's AI 100 Ultra chip for efficient inference.
🥷 Meta sues “brazenly disloyal” former exec over stolen confidential docsLINK
Meta has sued a former vice president, Dipinder Singh Khurana, for stealing confidential documents and using them to benefit a new AI data startup, Omniva.
Khurana allegedly poached Meta employees and borrowed Meta's business strategies to aid Omniva's negotiations with key suppliers and develop their data center operations.
The lawsuit claims Khurana breached his contractual and legal obligations by uploading sensitive Meta documents to a Dropbox folder and attempting to conceal his actions.
🛡 Microsoft releases security AI product to help clients track hackersLINK
Microsoft plans to release AI tools to assist in cybersecurity efforts, facilitating the production of incident summaries and the unearthing of hackers' obfuscation methods.
The AI-enhanced security product, known as Copilot for Security, has been in trial with corporate customers, including BP Plc and Dow Chemical Co., and will operate on a usage-based fee model.
The software, integrating OpenAI technology with Microsoft's security data, aims to support cybersecurity workers by increasing speed and accuracy in identifying threats, despite acknowledging potential false positives and negatives in security alerts.
Other news you might like
OpenAI could launch new 'GPT-4.5 Turbo' AI model in June.LINK
SpaceX successfully launches Starship in third flight test.LINK
Epic asks judge to enforce the Apple App Store injunction.LINK
OpenAI rushes to create the next prisoner's dilemma for the news industry.LINK
A quadrupedal robot can do parkour and walk across rubble.LINK
Amazon will let sellers paste a link so AI can make a product page.LINK
Meta VR headsets to gain special 'lying-down mode'.LINK
Waymo's robotaxi service expands into Los Angeles, starting free rides in parts of the city.LINK
Raspberry Pi-powered AI bike light detects cars, alerts bikers to bad drivers.LINK
Databricks is the latest investor in red-hot generative AI startup Mistral AI.LINK
Latest research and tools
LaVague: an open-source Large Action Model designed to translate natural language instructions into Selenium code for automated web browsing and interaction.LINK
FHS 3.0: a standard for Filesystem Hierarchy on Linux systems that organizes directories and their contents.
The Dinosaur Book: a reference guide detailing the fundamentals of operating systems, using a dinosaur as a metaphor.
OSTEP: an educational resource that provides comprehensive insight into operating system design and implementation.
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd edition: a book that delves deep into the Linux kernel, explaining its architecture and mechanisms.
UML Distilled, 3rd edition: a concise guide to understanding and applying the Unified Modeling Language for software design.LINK
Linux TTY font for Chinese as syllabic writing: a creative approach that maps each of the limited 512 glyph spots in the Linux TTY to a representative Chinese character based on its syllable, enabling a rudimentary display of Chinese text without modifying the kernel or using additional software.LINK
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