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⏸️ OpenAI delays launch of voice assistant
🧬 New AI model simulates 500M years of evolution
🛑 Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice
🔄 Google ditches continuous scroll in search results, brings back good old pages
🤔 Over 10% of scientific abstracts now reflect ChatGPT’s style
🤖 Scientists develop robot face with living skin
🎁 + 9 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
⏸️ OpenAI delays launch of voice assistantLINK
OpenAI announced it is delaying the release of its voice assistant to allow for more safety testing and quality checks. Initially planned for late June, the new feature aimed at paying subscribers will now be available in the fall, depending on meeting high safety and reliability standards. OpenAI faced legal threats from actress Scarlett Johansson, who claimed the company copied her voice for an AI persona, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied using her voice data in the training process.
🧬 New AI model simulates 500M years of evolutionLINK
EvolutionaryScale, founded by former Meta engineers, has launched ESM3, an AI biology model that simulates 500 million years of evolution to design novel proteins.
The startup has raised $142 million in seed funding from investors like Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Lux Capital, AWS, and Nvidia, and open-sourced the smallest ESM3 model to accelerate research.
Though the impact of ESM3 in real-world applications remains uncertain, EvolutionaryScale aims to use it to solve major human health and environmental challenges, including the development of novel medicines.
🛑 Reddit puts AI scrapers on noticeLINK
Reddit announced it will update its Robots Exclusion Protocol to prevent unauthorized AI models from scraping its website for data without consent.
The changes include rate-limiting and blocking bots that do not comply with Reddit’s Public Content Policy and lack an agreement with the platform.
The update is expected to stop AI companies from training their models on Reddit content, while still allowing responsible entities like researchers and organizations to access the platform.
🔄 Google ditches continuous scroll in search results, brings back good old pagesLINK
Google is discontinuing the continuous scrolling feature in search results on both desktop and mobile, reverting to the old method of paginated results.
The continuous scrolling feature, which was introduced in 2021 for mobile and in 2022 for desktop, showed up to six pages of results before a "More results" button appeared.
Google cited the need to deliver search results faster and more efficiently as the primary reason for removing the continuous scroll, with the change beginning on June 25 for desktop and rolling out later for mobile.
🤔 Over 10% of scientific abstracts now reflect ChatGPT’s styleLINK
An analysis of 14 million PubMed abstracts revealed that AI text generators, such as ChatGPT, have influenced over 10% of scientific abstracts since its introduction.
Researchers from the Universities of Tübingen and Northwestern identified that the appearance of certain style words, typical of ChatGPT's writing, surged significantly between 2010 and 2024.
The study found that in some countries and specific journals, the use of AI text generators was particularly high, with instances reaching up to 35% for Chinese authors in IT journals.
🤖 Scientists develop robot face with living skinLINK
Scientists have created a robotic face with a layer of lab-grown living skin at the University of Tokyo to make cyborgs appear more human-like and capable of healing themselves.
The living skin, which can smile and repair itself when damaged, is composed of human skin cells grown on a collagen model and attached to a 3D-printed resin base via perforation-type anchors.
The researchers believe this innovative skin can significantly enhance robots that interact with humans, such as in healthcare and service industries, and they foresee practical applications emerging within the next ten years.
Other news you might like
Toys R Us unveils first commercial made with OpenAI’s Sora.LINK
OpenAI will block people in China from using its services.LINK
Threads users can now share to the open social web, aka the fediverse.LINK
Microsoft has pulled a miracle: its Surface Copilot PCs are now the most repairable in the market.LINK
Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody.LINK
Character.AI users report 'dumbed down' chatbots, company denies claims.LINK
GM brings in Xbox engineer as CEO to steer beleaguered Cruise robotaxi service.LINK
Waymo’s robotaxis are now open to anyone in San Francisco.LINK
Volkswagen to invest up to $5 billion in Rivian.LINK
Latest research and tools
Ball: an interactive dock application that simulates a bouncing ball on your screen for entertainment and simple interactivity, originating from inspiration of an OS X Dashboard widget.LINK
Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite: the study finds that mixing certain types of apatite and covellite shows signs of superconductive properties.LINK
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