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The new agreement “in principle” involves a new board being installed, the tech company said.

It’s an open secret that generative AI is terrible at coming up with original and creative writing.

In many ways, that’s to be expected, given its inherent nature — machine learning systems typically churn through the internet and remix what they’ve gobbled up, often in nonsensical or uninspiring ways.

To remedy the situation, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest AI companies are now resorting to hiring poets and writers with humanity degrees, Rest of World reports, which is an ironic twist, considering publishers have been laying off writers and editors while making big investments in generative AI.

The share of U.S. venture funding going to companies in the San Francisco Bay Area hit a multiyear high this year, boosted largely by the AI boom.

Altogether, companies in the region pulled in $49.3 billion in seed through growth funding to date, per Crunchbase data. That represents approximately 41% of the entire U.S. total, the highest share in years.

Generative AI can boost highly skilled worker productivity, if organizations establish a culture of accountability and encourage role reconfiguration.

The Rivian R1 vehicle lineup will expand and could be more affordable with new trims and battery, and the Van will be sold to new customers.

An exploration of whether aliens are out there, what kind of extraterrestrial life is most likely to exist, and how we’re looking for it.

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A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say.

In a groundbreaking feat, a deep space experiment travelling on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has successfully transmitted data via a near-infrared laser to Earth from 16 million kilometres away!

A deep space experiment traveling on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has just beamed a message via laser to Earth from far beyond the Moon for the first time, an achievement that could transform how spacecraft communicate.

In the farthest-ever demonstration of this type of optical communication, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from its position around 16 million kilometers (10 million miles) away – which is around 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in California.

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