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Here's the latest tech news from the last 24 hours:
🤖 OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos
😴 A device that lets you work while you sleep
🚀 Amazon to hire rival SpaceX to launch internet satellites
💬 Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages
🛍️ Microsoft in talks with partners about launching an Xbox mobile store
🤖 OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaosLINK
OpenAI's GPT store, initially planned to launch in December, has been postponed to next year due to recent internal challenges and unexpected events. The delay in the rollout of the GPT store was announced in an email to individuals who signed up for OpenAI's GPT Builder program. The upcoming GPT store is intended to be a marketplace for users to sell and share GPTs they have developed, with creators receiving compensation based on the usage of their GPTs.
😴 A device that lets you work while you sleepLINK
Prophetic's new "Halo" headband promises to let users work on tasks like practicing speeches or solving problems by inducing lucid dreams where they can control the dream's content.
Designed by Afshin Mehin, who also designed Neuralink's N1 brain implant, the Halo headband uses ultrasound waves to stimulate parts of the brain involved in lucid dreaming and decision-making.
Although the Halo aims to enhance productivity during sleep and is expected to be available in 2025, experts question its efficacy in controlling lucid dreams and its potential to actually improve sleep quality.
🚀 Amazon to hire rival SpaceX to launch internet satellitesLINK
Amazon will use SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets for three launches in 2025 to send Project Kuiper internet satellites into space.
Amazon's Project Kuiper aims to provide global internet connectivity but is behind SpaceX's Starlink, which has 5,000 satellites already deployed.
While SpaceX aids Amazon with future launches, most of Amazon’s satellites will still launch with Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance.
💬 Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languagesLINK
Meta AI has launched a new AI model series, Seamless Communication, which includes a Universal Speech Translator for real-time, expressive translations across over 100 languages.
The Seamless suite, combining three advanced neural models, maintains the original speaker's voice characteristics and reduces translation latency to about two seconds.
To support further innovation and safe use, Meta AI has released these models publicly on platforms like Hugging Face and Github, taking precautions against misuse.
🛍️ Microsoft in talks with partners about launching an Xbox mobile storeLINK
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer indicates that an Xbox mobile store could launch sooner than expected, potentially within a year, competing with Apple and Google.
The Xbox mobile store initiative is part of Microsoft's strategy to expand its presence in mobile gaming, leveraging Activision Blizzard's portfolio, including hits like Candy Crush and Call of Duty Mobile.
Microsoft's mobile store plans, amid regulatory tensions evident from Epic Games' legal challenges against Apple, suggest a changing landscape for mobile app marketplaces.
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DeepSeek Chat, a ChatGPT rival from China, launches with a 67B model, showcasing impressive benchmark performances and partial open-source availability for broader research and commercial use.LINK
NASA receives signal from 10 million miles away in space.LINK
Physicists propose way to harvest the energy From black holes new paper.LINK
New algorithm finds lots of gene-editing enzymes in environmental DNA.LINK
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