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🏅 AI pioneers win Nobel Prize in Physics
💥 Google ordered to open Android to rival app stores
🚗 Uber will use ChatGPT to get more people to use EVs
🎨 Adobe has a new tool to protect artists’ work from AI
💸 FTX cleared to repay billions to customers after bankruptcy plan approval
⚖️ Judge approves FTC's antitrust case against Amazon
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🏅 AI pioneers win Nobel Prize in PhysicsLINK
Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, credited with establishing the foundations for today’s advanced machine learning technologies, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their pioneering work on artificial neural networks mimicking brain structures.
Their innovations helped enable AI systems to learn by identifying complex patterns from data, which is foundational to high-profile applications like language generation and image recognition currently used in technology.
Despite the recognition, Hinton has expressed concern over AI's potential risks, highlighting the danger of bad actors misusing the technology, and recently left Google to focus on advocating for responsible AI development.
💥 Google ordered to open Android to rival app storesLINK
A judge ruled that Google must allow third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps and distribute them within Google Play for three years. Starting in November 2024, Google can no longer require Google Play Billing for apps, and developers can inform users of alternative payment methods. Google plans to appeal, arguing that the changes will harm consumers and developers, while Epic Games celebrates the decision as a win for app store competition.
🚗 Uber will use ChatGPT to get more people to use EVsLINK
Uber is transitioning its Uber Green ridehailing option to an electric vehicle exclusive service in 40 urban areas, reflecting a significant increase in electric vehicle usage among its U.S., Canadian, and European drivers.
Customers can now select a preference for electric vehicles to ensure a greener transportation choice, while Uber's updated app features aim to facilitate environmentally conscious decisions in support of its carbon neutrality target for North America and Europe by 2030.
Uber is introducing both an AI-powered chatbot to address drivers' concerns about electric vehicle adoption and a mentorship program featuring experienced EV drivers.
🎨 Adobe has a new tool to protect artists’ work from AILINK
Adobe plans to launch a new web app in 2025, alongside a Chrome extension, to help protect artists' work by applying tamper-evident metadata, known as Content Credentials, and allowing creators to opt-out of generative AI models.
This web app will integrate with Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications and enable artists to uniformly embed creator information across content, simplifying the opt-out process from AI training databases compared to individual submissions for each AI provider.
While Adobe's initiative seeks widespread industry support, only a few companies like Spawning have committed to adopting these protections.
💸 FTX cleared to repay billions to customers after bankruptcy plan approvalLINK
A U.S. court approved FTX's bankruptcy plan, enabling most of the exchange's users to recover their 2022 losses and potentially more, with support from 96% of creditors by headcount and 98% by the amount of debt owed.
The arrangement specifies that customers will receive cash reimbursements averaging 118% of their holdings' value at the bankruptcy filing, with some receiving up to 140%, despite concerns over FTX's estate opting for cash over in-kind crypto repayments.
Judge John T. Dorsey overruled all objections during the lengthy hearing, including those regarding FTT token valuation and creditor "property rights," while the FTT token's price surged 55% after the bankruptcy plan was approved.
⚖️ Judge approves FTC's antitrust case against AmazonLINK
A federal judge allowed the Federal Trade Commission to continue its antitrust case against Amazon, despite some claims under state laws being dismissed, following a newly unsealed order.
Judge John Chun rejected Amazon's motion to dismiss several federal claims, stating that accusations of the company maintaining a monopoly will be evaluated in a trial, while state claims were partly dismissed with a chance for revival.
This initial decision permits the FTC to present its arguments in court, where the agency aims to prove that Amazon's practices are monopolistic, with Amazon countering that their strategies benefit competition and customers.
Other news you might like
Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes.LINK
SpaceX launches 'Hera' mission to study asteroid deflected by NASA.LINK
Foxconn building world's largest Nvidia superchip factory.LINK
Threads knows it has an engagement bait problem.LINK
YouTube makes skipping ads trickier for mobile users.LINK
Teen achieves first NES Tetris “rebirth,” proves endless play is possible.LINK
Noise pollution from Bitcoin mining sparks health crisis in Texas town.LINK
Latest research and tools
Cname uncloaking code rewrite: modernizes existing software to consider a newly added 'ipaddress=' option, ensuring accurate identification of CNAME records in DNS queries for improved network performance and security.LINK
Differential Transformer: the paper outlines how transformers, a model architecture, can be adapted to handle differential computing tasks effectively.LINK
Video Surveillance with YOLO+llama: a tool that connects to RTSP streams, resamples video frames for YOLO object detection, uniquely identifies objects using coordinates and timestamps, and uses llama for tagging, aiming to create a headless security system.LINK
"Generated Checklists Improve LLM Evaluation and Generation: using automatically generated checklists enhances the evaluation and generation capabilities of large language models."LINK
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