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💥 OpenAI challenges Google with AI search engine SearchGPT
🥈 Google DeepMind's AI takes home silver medal in complex math competition
🎮 Video game actors strike over AI concerns
👽 NASA's Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that could indicate ancient life
📱 Epic will bring Fortnite to third-party iOS app stores
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 OpenAI challenges Google with AI search engine SearchGPTLINK
OpenAI announced a new search product called "SearchGPT," which is currently in the testing phase and aims to compete directly with Google's Search Generative Experience.
SearchGPT, designed for a limited group of users, offers concise answers and relevant sources, with the intention of making search faster and easier through real-time information.
With this move, OpenAI targets Google's dominant position in the search market, where Google holds approximately 90% market share, highlighting OpenAI's significant ambition in the search engine space.
🥈 Google DeepMind's AI takes home silver medal in complex math competitionLINK
Google DeepMind has developed an AI system named AlphaProof that achieved 28 points in the International Mathematical Olympiad, equivalent to a silver medalist's score for the first time.
AlphaProof has managed to solve 83% of all IMO geometry problems over the past 25 years, significantly improving on its predecessor AlphaGeometry, which had a success rate of 53%.
AlphaProof generates solutions by searching and testing various mathematical steps, unlike human participants who rely on theorem knowledge and intuition to solve problems more efficiently.
🎮 Video game actors strike over AI concernsLINK
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has decided to strike all video game work under the union’s Interactive Media Agreement starting July 26th at 12:01 AM.
The strike affects all union actors, voice actors, and motion capture performers, targeting companies such as Activision Blizzard, EA, Insomniac Games, and WB Games, with disagreements over AI protections cited as the main issue.
Despite finding common ground on numerous proposals and the video game producers offering AI consent and fair compensation, SAG-AFTRA and the companies failed to reach a full agreement, leading to the strike.
👽 NASA's Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that could indicate ancient lifeLINK
NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a rock on Mars, named Cheyava Falls, which may hold chemical signatures and structures indicative of ancient microbial life.
The rock was collected from a former river valley on July 21, displaying large white calcium sulfate veins, suggesting historical water flow through the rock.
Scientists must still determine if the millimeter-size leopard spots found in the rock were formed by biological processes or non-biological ones, a process complicated by the delay in returning samples to Earth until around 2040.
📱 Epic will bring Fortnite to third-party iOS app storesLINK
Epic Games plans to bring Fortnite to the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL in the EU, with additional third-party store support expected to be announced soon.
Epic will also make Rocket League Sideswipe available on AltStore PAL, alongside intent to distribute its mobile games through stores that offer fair terms to developers.
Epic is ending distribution partnerships with app stores like Samsung's Galaxy Store due to concerns over blocking sideloading and anti-competitive behavior from companies like Google.
Other news you might like
AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on ‘thousands’ of YouTube videos without permission.LINK
Amazon racing to develop AI chips cheaper, faster than Nvidia's, executives say.LINK
Sam Altman, under fire from Elon Musk, has now offered his own vision of open-source AI.LINK
Gemini is now 20% faster than OpenAI's most advanced model.LINK
U.S. charges North Korean man with cyberattacks on NASA.LINK
WhatsApp now has 100 million monthly users in the US.LINK
JP Morgan built its own AI chatbot that acts like a 'research analyst'.LINK
Sonos apologized for messing up its app and has offered a roadmap for fixing everything.LINK
Latest research and tools
PyDPainter: an open-source software designed to recreate the classic Deluxe Paint II experience for making pixel art, offering modern enhancements while sticking to the simplicity and nostalgia of the original tool.LINK
HellPot: a honeypot tool that tricks malicious HTTP bots into engaging with an endless stream of data, hoping to waste their resources and deter their activities.LINK
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