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This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI
Last November, Bradford G. Smith got a brain implant from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink. The device, a set of thin wires attached to a miniscule computer that sits in his skull, lets him use his thoughts to move a computer pointer on a screen. And by last week he was ready to reveal it in a post on X.
Smith’s case is drawing interest because he’s not only communicating via a brain implant but also getting help from Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot. The generative AI is speeding up the rate at which he can communicate, but it also raises questions about who is really talking—him or Musk’s software. Citește povestea completă.
—Antonio Regalado
MIT Technology Review Narrated: How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
The Trump administration’s hostile trade plans threaten to slow the shift to cleaner industries, boost inflation, and stall the economy.
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1 NSO Group has been ordered to pay Meta $167 million
After the Israeli firm’s spyware was used to hack journalists, activists, and politicians. (NYT $)
+ The firm has been implicated in abusive surveillance before. (Reuters)
2 OpenAI plans to reduce the fraction of its revenue Microsoft receives
It told investors it plans to slash the shared revenue from 20% to 10%. (Informațiile $)
+ Its for-profit U-turn is not yet a done deal. (Bloomberg $)+ We still don’t know a lot about OpenAI’s structure. (Economist $)
3 The Trump administration is axing the Energy Star program
The project certifies the energy efficiency of home appliances in the US. (WP $)
4 The US Justice Department wants Google to sell its ad businesses
But Google claims it’s not technically feasible. (WSJ $)
+ The judge says he’ll rule on the remedies by August. (Informațiile $)
5 Grok AI is undressing women on X
That’s what happens when you create AI models without proper guardrails. (404 Media)
+ Text-to-image AI models can be tricked into generating nude images. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
6 Private investors are prepared to plow billions into Europe’s defense industry
They’re stepping up to fill gaps that governments can’t fund. (FT $)
+ The US is likely to strike a weapons deal in Riyadh next week. (Semafor)
+ Phase two of military AI has arrived. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
7 Can anyone stop Starlink?
The speed of its total dominance of the satellite sector is unprecedented. (Atlanticul $)
+ The world’s next big environmental problem could come from space. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
8 Amazon’s new robot has a sense of touch
To help it grab items in the e-retail giant’s warehouses. (Gardianul)
+ The Vulcan robot could end up shouldering more manufacturing work in the future. (Cu fir $)
+ Will we ever trust robots? (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
9 Argentina is investing big in nuclear-powered AI data centers
In an effort to attract big tech firms from overseas. (Restul lumii)
+ Meanwhile, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine is still not operational. (Spectrul IEEE)
+ China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
10 RIP prompt engineering
The hottest job of 2023 is quickly fizzling out. (Companie rapidă $)
Citatul zilei
“I think upper class households will be able to have something that makes your Roomba look like a total joke.”
—Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian believes that advanced robot domestic helpers are imminent, Insider rapoarte.
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Is this the end of animal testing?
Animal studies are notoriously bad at identifying human treatments. Around 95% of the drugs developed through animal research fail in people, but until recently there was no other option.
Now organs on chips, also known as microphysiological systems, may offer a truly viable alternative. They’re triumphs of bioengineering, intricate constructions furrowed with tiny channels that are lined with living human tissues that expand and contract with the flow of fluid and air, mimicking key organ functions like breathing, blood flow, and peristalsis, the muscular contractions of the digestive system.
It’s only early days, but if they work as hoped, organs on chips could solve one of the biggest problems in medicine today. Citește povestea completă.
—Harriet Brown
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+ If you enjoyed this year’s Met Gala theme, check out this fascinating history of the Black dandy in art.
+ 2025 is shaping up to be a great year for literature.
+ The good news is that GTA VI finally has a release date—but it’s over a year away.
+ Chocolate pie for breakfast? I could be convinced.
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