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In today's Techpresso:
💥 TikTok sues the US government over ban
👨⚕️ Google built medical AI that can train itself and outperform real doctors
💰 FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back, plus interest
💀 Neuralink cofounder says he quit because of safety concerns
🕵️♂️ Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 TikTok sues the US government over banLINK
TikTok filed a lawsuit to challenge a US law that might lead to its nationwide ban, arguing the legislation infringes on the First Amendment rights of its users.
The lawsuit contends that the US government's actions against TikTok, under allegations of security risks due to its Chinese ownership, are unconstitutional and lack solid evidence.
If TikTok fails to win the lawsuit, it faces a potential ban unless sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, by mid-January 2025, raising significant implications for US tech policy and free speech rights.
👨⚕️ Google built medical AI that can train itself and outperform real doctorsLINK
Google's DeepMind has developed Med-Gemini, a self-training medical AI that outperforms doctors in accuracy, achieving a 91.1% score on medical benchmarks.
Med-Gemini uses an uncertainty-guided search functionality and has bested GPT-4 models and actual doctors on 10 out of 14 medical benchmarks.
Despite its capabilities, Google’s medical AI aims to assist rather than replace doctors, helping to alleviate their workload.
💰 FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back, plus interestLINK
FTX, following its bankruptcy, has announced that most customers affected by its collapse will get all their money back, with assets valued at $16.3 billion ready to cover the $11 billion debt.
The company's chief restructuring officer, John Ray III, stated that a Chapter 11 plan is prepared, promising 100% return of bankruptcy claim amounts to customers within 60 days upon court approval.
After filing for bankruptcy in November 2022 and amidst the legal issues of its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX managed to gather funds by liquidating assets, including a $884 million stake in AI startup Anthropic.
💀 Neuralink cofounder says he quit because of safety concernsLINK
Dr. Benjamin Rapoport, a co-founder of Neuralink, left the company due to concerns over the safety and necessity of invasive brain-computer interfaces, advocating for non-invasive methods instead.
Neuralink has faced criticism and regulatory scrutiny for its animal testing practices and the invasive nature of its technology, though it has obtained FDA approval to begin human trials.
Rapoport founded Precision Neuroscience, focusing on developing a non-invasive brain-computer interface technology that uses surface microelectrodes, aiming for safety and minimal invasiveness.
🕵️♂️ Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spiesLINK
Microsoft has launched a GPT-4-based generative AI model tailored for US intelligence agencies that operates offline to analyze top-secret information securely.
The AI chatbot aims to facilitate secure conversations among spy agencies without the internet, addressing data breach and hacking concerns.
This initiative represents Microsoft's first deployment of a major language model in a high-security environment, with a focus on mitigating the risks of data leaks while processing classified data.
Other news you might like
OpenAI's 'SearchGPT' might be shown next Monday together with GPT-4-Lite.LINK
Reddit shares soar 14% after company reports revenue pop in debut earnings report.LINK
Rivian loses $1.45 billion as cost-cutting measures continue.LINK
Luminar says Tesla is biggest customer for its lidar sensors.LINK
SoftBank in talks to buy AI chipmaker Graphcore, Bloomberg reports.LINK
New AI search engine Upend emerges from stealth, powered by 100 LLMs.LINK
Microsoft is shuttering four Bethesda studios, including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, ending all development on Redfall.LINK
Latest research and tools
IBM Granite: a family of decoder-only code models designed for various code generative tasks, trained in 116 programming languages and demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in code intelligence.LINK
The Bootable Container (bootc) extension: converts your Containerfile into a bootable operating system image for VMs, USB drives, or raw disk images, and allows for in-place updates from new container images.LINK
XLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory: this paper introduces an enhanced version of the LSTM architecture that aims to improve its ability to handle long-term dependencies.LINK
Ointers: a library for representing pointers by stealing bits to utilize as small storage space, enhancing alignment for more efficient data handling in programming.LINK
nb-editor: a serverless collaborative note editor that utilizes nb-crdt for synchronization and collaboration via a shared folder.LINK
TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model): a pretrained model by Google Research for univariate time-series forecasting, supporting context lengths up to 512 timepoints and featuring uncalibrated quantile heads for experimental use.LINK
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