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🌍 Microsoft and NASA launch AI Earth Copilot
💻 ChatGPT desktop apps get major upgrades
📊 Facebook shifts to 'views' as main metric
📝 FTC investigates Microsoft’s cloud business
⚛️ Anthropic partners with US government to prevent AI nuclear leaks
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🌍 Microsoft and NASA launch AI Earth CopilotLINK
NASA and Microsoft have partnered to launch an AI chatbot called 'Earth Copilot' to help the public understand and answer questions about the planet.
'Earth Copilot' is designed to provide easier access to NASA's extensive data collection by converting it into more comprehensible information for users.
The collaboration leverages Microsoft's Azure cloud computing technology to process and make NASA's satellite data readily accessible and understandable for the general public.
💻 ChatGPT desktop apps get major upgradesLINK
OpenAI has launched new features for ChatGPT's desktop applications, including a Windows app with efficient productivity tools and a Mac version integrating directly with developer tools like VS Code and Xcode.
Integration enhancements for macOS are exclusive to Plus and Team subscribers, with plans for broader access soon, marking a significant shift towards integrating AI with desktop applications beyond web limitations.
Both applications are downloadable via OpenAI's website, introducing the ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode for desktops, while the new multimodal AI model GPT-4o is available, boasting advanced capabilities and cost-effectiveness compared to its predecessors.
📊 Facebook shifts to 'views' as main metricLINK
Facebook has shifted to "views" as its main metric for assessing content performance, aligning with Instagram's method for easier evaluation of how posts are doing.
This change applies to videos, photos, and text posts, where a view is counted each time content appears on a user's screen, even if viewed multiple times by the same person.
Meta introduced a view counter on Threads for increased transparency, but the usefulness of views for individual users remains questionable compared to their advantages for brands.
📝 FTC investigates Microsoft’s cloud businessLINK
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to investigate Microsoft's cloud business for potentially anti-competitive practices, focusing on how the company may be using its dominance to hinder competition.
Microsoft is accused of employing restrictive licensing terms, such as high exit charges and compatibility issues with Office 365, to deter customers from leaving its Azure cloud platform for other providers.
The FTC's investigation may be one of the final actions under its current chair, Lina Khan, who has been known for challenging major technology companies during her leadership.
⚛️ Anthropic partners with US government to prevent AI nuclear leaksLINK
Anthropic collaborates with the US Department of Energy's nuclear experts to ensure its AI model, Claude 3 Sonnet, does not inadvertently disclose sensitive nuclear weapon information.
The initiative involves "red-teaming," a technique used by the National Nuclear Security Administration to identify potential vulnerabilities in Claude's responses that could lead to dangerous exploitation.
This project, which started in April and runs until February, aims to share findings with scientific labs to promote independent safety testing against malicious use of AI models.
Other news you might like
Sam Altman says 'there is no wall' in an apparent response to fears of an AI slowdown.LINK
AI researcher François Chollet leaves Google, Keras stays.LINK
Apple quietly gave the M4 MacBook Pro a quantum dot display.LINK
As Bluesky surges, Threads begins testing custom feeds.LINK
Musk also wants to fight Microsoft in legal grudge match with OpenAI.LINK
Crypto hacker who stole $11 billion of bitcoin sentenced to prison.LINK
Google's new experimental Gemini model leads AI rankings until you strip away the formatting.LINK
Latest research and tools
Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#: a project that replicates the Visual Basic 6 Integrated Development Environment using C# and Avalonia, aimed at enthusiasts, without commercial purposes, requiring .NET 9.0 and manual Java installation for certain functionalities.LINK
Seer: a graphical user interface front-end for the GDB debugger designed for Linux, simplifying debugging with features like source viewing, variable tracking, and CPU register inspections.LINK
Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge: the paper shows that language models can integrate and generate scientific knowledge more effectively than human experts.LINK
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