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👨💼 Panasonic resurrects founder as an AI
🤖 Tesla gives Optimus robot a new hand
🌏 Meta is building the ‘mother of all’ subsea cables
⚖️ Google hit with another major anti-competition lawsuit
💼 ByteDance sues former intern seeking $1.1M for 'sabotaging' AI project
🎁 + 5 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
👨💼 Panasonic resurrects founder as an AILINK
Panasonic has developed an AI version of its founder, Kōnosuke Matsushita, using recordings, writings, and lectures to preserve his management philosophy and teachings for future generations.
The development involved collaboration with the University of Tokyo-affiliated Matsuo Institute to create an AI that simulates Matsushita's thinking and speaking style, helping users with management decisions.
This project enhances Panasonic's expertise in AI and aligns with Japan’s cultural reverence for ancestors, while the company continues to invest in advancements like EV batteries and supply chain software.
🤖 Tesla gives Optimus robot a new handLINK
The Tesla Optimus robot can now catch high-speed tennis balls, demonstrated through a video showcasing the robot's hand upgrades for precise and rapid catching abilities.
Pre-production prototypes of the Optimus will be deployed in Tesla factories by late next year, with commercial availability to other companies expected by 2026.
Equipped with advanced AI and Full Self-Driving technology, the robot performs tasks safely and efficiently, contributing to industrial, domestic, and potentially healthcare settings.
🌏 Meta is building the ‘mother of all’ subsea cablesLINK
Meta plans to create a groundbreaking 40,000-kilometer fiber-optic subsea cable encircling the globe, with an estimated investment exceeding $10 billion, according to sources close to the company.
This new cable, wholly owned by Meta, marks a significant shift in the ownership of subsea networks from telecom consortiums to big tech companies seeking to secure their data infrastructure.
One of the main motivations for this project is to avoid areas of geopolitical tension, ensuring uninterrupted data flow, with the cable route designed to bypass high-risk zones like the Red Sea and South China Sea.
⚖️ Google hit with another major anti-competition lawsuitLINK
Canada's Competition Bureau has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing it of anti-competitive practices in the country's digital advertising technology services.
The bureau claims that Google controls large shares of the ad tech market, inflating advertising costs and hindering competition by locking market players into its ecosystem.
The lawsuit seeks to compel Google to divest specific ad tech tools and impose penalties to ensure compliance with Canada's Competition Act.
💼 ByteDance sues former intern seeking $1.1M for 'sabotaging' AI projectLINK
ByteDance has filed a lawsuit against former intern Tian Keyu, accusing him of sabotaging its AI infrastructure by tampering with the code and seeking $1.1 million in damages for the alleged interference.
The case, accepted by the Haidian District People's Court in Beijing, highlights the competitive nature of China's AI industry as ByteDance aims to protect its investments in critical technology initiatives.
ByteDance's legal action is part of a broader context where Chinese tech companies are heavily investing in AI, despite facing global challenges like restricted access to advanced AI chips essential for development.
Other news you might like
How Amazon revamped its AI-sales machine to compete with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.LINK
World’s first urban wind turbine designed by AI offers 7x more efficiency.LINK
AI chatbot builder leaks hundreds of thousands of records online.LINK
Apple just took the first major step toward making next-gen M5 iPads and Macs.LINK
PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi says Sony execs opposed device and ‘everyone told us we would fail’.LINK
Latest research and tools
Vince: a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics, offering privacy-friendly web tracking with public dashboards, unlimited site management, and no runtime dependencies, using existing plausible scripts for single-entity self-hosting without full feature parity with plausible.LINK
Physics in Next-Token Prediction: this paper explores how concepts from physics could improve the accuracy of next-token prediction in natural language processing models.LINK
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