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🚗 Elon Musk reveals new $30,000 robotaxi
🤖 Tesla's Optimus robots steal the show at Tesla event
🫠 TikTok cuts hundreds of jobs to replace them with AI
💻 AMD is going after Nvidia with new AI chips
⚠️ Wikipedia declares war on AI-generated content
👀 The end of .io domains?
🎁 + 4 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🚗 Elon Musk reveals new $30,000 robotaxiLINK
Elon Musk introduced the Tesla Cybercab, a self-driving vehicle without steering wheels or pedals, with plans for consumer availability under $30,000 and production aimed before 2027, despite Tesla's history of delayed autonomy promises.
Alongside the Cybercab, Musk announced the Robovan, an autonomous electric vehicle designed to transport up to 20 people or goods, with both models featuring inductive charging for wireless energy transfer at recharge stations.
At the invitation-only robotaxi event, Musk highlighted an unsupervised version of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system expected in 2024.
🤖 Tesla's Optimus robots steal the show at Tesla eventLINK
During Tesla's Cybercab event, the Optimus humanoid robots appeared alongside the new Robovan and were displayed completing everyday tasks like retrieving packages and watering plants, highlighting their range of abilities for prospective buyers.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims that Optimus can perform a variety of functions, such as walking dogs, babysitting, and serving beverages, with a projected price point of $20,000 to $30,000 long term.
Despite Musk's ambitious promises for the future impact and production scale of Optimus, during the event, the robots mainly engaged in simple actions like waving and playing games.
🫠 TikTok cuts hundreds of jobs to replace them with AILINK
TikTok has announced it is dismissing several hundred workers worldwide to transition towards using artificial intelligence for content moderation, aiming to enhance its global moderation model.
Approximately 500 employees in Malaysia are losing their jobs as part of this restructuring, with TikTok also planning to consolidate some regional operations and having previously cut positions in marketing and operations earlier this year.
The platform currently employs a combination of human and automated methods to review content.
💻 AMD is going after Nvidia with new AI chipsLINK
AMD has introduced its Instinct MI325X AI chip aimed at competing with Nvidia's data center GPUs, with production slated to commence by the end of 2024, potentially pressuring Nvidia's market position and gross margins.
The Instinct MI325X rollout positions AMD against Nvidia's Blackwell chips, with AMD aiming for significant market entry amidst growing demand from AI-intensive applications powered by vast data centers.
Despite aiming to challenge Nvidia's dominance, AMD's primary hurdle is the rival's CUDA programming language.
⚠️ Wikipedia declares war on AI-generated contentLINK
Wikipedia editors have initiated "WikiProject AI Cleanup" to tackle the issue of unsourced and poorly-written AI-generated content, aiming to protect the integrity of the platform's information.
The project does not intend to ban AI usage entirely but seeks to remove content that is inaccurately sourced or filled with AI hallucinations that compromise article quality.
Editors have identified AI-generated text patterns and catchphrases to detect substandard content, despite the challenges of spotting complex AI-generated errors in subjects like historical architecture.
👀 The end of .io domains?LINK
The .IO domain, popular among tech startups due to its association with "input/output," faces potential disruption due to recent political developments involving the British Indian Ocean Territory, from which the domain originates.
Recent agreements between the UK and Mauritius concerning the future status of the Chagos Islands might affect the .IO domain, raising questions about its continuity as the domain could be re-assigned or phased out by ICANN.
While it's uncertain if .IO domains will be retired, companies using them are advised to monitor the situation closely and consider alternative domain names, such as .com, as a precaution to avoid possible disruptions in their online presence.
Other news you might like
Anduril unveils autonomous AI drones designed for 'simple, flexible and lethal precision firepower'.LINK
The FBI made a cryptocurrency to catch scammers.LINK
Apple Intelligence features can also summarize breakup texts for you.LINK
OpenAI releases its meta-prompt for prompt optimization.LINK
Latest research and tools
Microsoft Recall: a tool that has become a necessary component for the explorer.exe process, enhancing user interaction with the system.LINK
ARIA: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model: the paper introduces a novel open-source model that integrates multiple types of data input to improve decision-making accuracy.LINK
Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models: the paper examines how well large language models grasp mathematical logic and their constraints in accurately performing mathematical reasoning tasks.LINK
Chunkr: a self-hostable tool that uses advanced vision models to quickly extract and analyze segments from PDFs, enabling efficient data processing for research.LINK
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