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⚛️ Student builds fusion reactor at home with AI and $2K
🚨 Nvidia AI antitrust investigation is ‘escalating,’ reports Bloomberg
🛰️ Starlink U-turns and says it will comply with judge's order to block X in Brazil
🫠 Facebook partner admits to phone eavesdropping for ad targeting
🤖 57% of online content now AI-generated, study shows
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
⚛️ Student builds fusion reactor at home with AI and $2KLINK
A University of Waterloo math student named Hudhayfa Nazoordeen built a fusion reactor in his bedroom within four weeks, spending approximately $2,000 on various components purchased online.
Nazoordeen's project involved creating a mini fusor powered by a 12kV neon sign transformer, resulting in a setup that successfully produced plasma, which is essential for fusion processes.
Nazoordeen credited his success to assistance from other engineers and the AI chatbot Claude 3.5, although his reactor has not yet achieved full fusion and emission of neutrons, and he plans further development pending additional funding.
🚨 Nvidia AI antitrust investigation is ‘escalating,’ reports BloombergLINK
The Department of Justice is intensifying an antitrust investigation into Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware, with Bloomberg reporting that legally binding information requests have been sent to Nvidia and other companies.
Nvidia had surpassed Microsoft as the most valuable company earlier this year but now trails behind Microsoft and Apple, with its share price dropping more than 9 percent, resulting in a market value loss of about $279 billion in one day.
Despite the recent setbacks, Nvidia's stock has more than doubled this year, driven by high sales of its expensive AI chips, even amid reports of potential delays for its upcoming Blackwell series due to design issues.
🛰️ Starlink U-turns and says it will comply with judge's order to block X in BrazilLINK
Starlink has decided to comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order to block Elon Musk's social media platform X in the country.
The Supreme Court's order came after X failed to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, and it includes the freezing of Starlink's assets to potentially pay fines exceeding $3 million.
Musk criticized the court's decision on social media, but Starlink announced its compliance, aiming to prevent the possible seizure of its equipment by Brazilian regulators.
🫠 Facebook partner admits to phone eavesdropping for ad targetingLINK
A marketing agency connected with Facebook and Google admitted to using an "Active Listening" feature that eavesdrops on phone conversations for targeted advertising.
Google has removed the agency from its Partners Program and emphasized that all advertisers must follow applicable laws and policies.
Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced an investigation to determine if the agency violated its terms, whereas Amazon denies any involvement or future plans with the firm.
🤖 57% of online content now AI-generated, study showsLINK
A recent study reports that over 57% of internet content is generated by AI, significantly affecting the quality of search results.
The influx of AI-generated information hampers the training of AI models like ChatGPT, causing them to produce less accurate and more misleading responses.
Researchers found that AI content usage leads to a decline in response quality, creating a cyclical degradation that worsens the authenticity and usefulness of search outputs.
Other news you might like
Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B.LINK
Microsoft to announce ‘next phase of Copilot’ on September 16th.LINK
Qualcomm ramps up challenge to Intel and AMD with latest AI PC chip.LINK
Meta lobbied for child safety bill to blame Apple, but Apple’s own lobbying got it off the hook.LINK
Lab-made stem cells offer new hope for cancer treatment.LINK
Hollywood will need permission to make AI deepfakes of long-gone stars.LINK
Latest research and tools
Howm: a personal wiki package for Emacs designed to help users create and manage their notes and ideas in an organized way.LINK
Firefox JPEG-XL implementation: Mozilla Firefox is considering integrating Rust-based support for the JPEG-XL image format, aiming to enhance image loading times and efficiency in the browser.LINK
Epistolary: a software tool that transforms handwritten notes into text to reply to emails, designed primarily for the reMarkable tablet, but also works with PDFs and scanned documents.LINK
Anthropic Quickstarts: a collection of projects enabling developers to easily start building applications with the Anthropic API, providing foundations for customizable, deployable AI-assisted applications like customer support agents.LINK
Generalized Carlos Scales: the technique presents a new methodology for scaling and comparing diverse datasets.LINK
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