Yea, so word is Anti AI / aka Al SAFETY people were able to get on the board.
Altman’s ousting is related to internal disagreements about AI safety and speed of development.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to X to affirm the company’s relationship with OpenAI hours after OpenAI ousted its CEO Sam Altman.
SpaceX is targeting Saturday for the second flight of Starship. The company has received regulatory approval for the flight. The flight will feature the newly added hot staging ring, allowing the Ship to separate from the Booster while the Booster engines are still firing. The stack features multiple upgrades compared to the first flight, including 63 upgrades SpaceX submitted to the FAA to mitigate issues from the first flight. Ahead of the launch, SpaceX will close the road, evacuate the village and surrounding area, and clear the potential blast radius.
Booster 9 will attempt a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, while Ship 25 will attempt to fly around the earth before performing a reentry and hard splashdown in the Hawaiian area.
Window Opens: November 18th at 7AM CST (13:00 UTC)
Window Closes: November 18th at 7:20AM CST (13:20 UTC)
Mission: Starship’s second fully integrated test flight.
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In 2010, Mike Williams traveled from London to Amsterdam for a physics workshop. Everyone there was abuzz with the possibilities—and possible drawbacks—of machine learning, which Williams had recently proposed incorporating into the LHCb experiment. Williams, now a professor of physics and leader of an experimental group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, left the workshop motivated to make it work.
LHCb is one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Every second, inside the detectors for each of those experiments, proton beams cross 40 million times, generating hundreds of millions of proton collisions, each of which produces an array of particles flying off in different directions. Williams wanted to use machine learning to improve LHCb’s trigger system, a set of decision-making algorithms programmed to recognize and save only collisions that display interesting signals—and discard the rest.
Of the 40 million crossings, or events, that happen each second in the ATLAS and CMS detectors—the two largest particle detectors at the LHC—data from only a few thousand are saved, says Tae Min Hong, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the ATLAS collaboration. “Our job in the trigger system is to never throw away anything that could be important,” he says.
Now, generative AI models — similar to the large language model (LLM) that powers ChatGPT — are being developed to understand the rules and relationships of DNA, RNA and proteins, and the many functions and properties they produce.
How it works: Humans arrange the 26 letters in the modern English alphabet into roughly — and arguably — about 500,000 words.
We have developed an automated and high-throughput, three-dimensional, vision-controlled inkjet deposition process that enables the high-resolution, contactless printing of a range of materials with varying elastic moduli to create complex structures and robots.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancers in humans. It is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the western world. The early stages of the disease often progress without symptoms, so diagnosis is usually very late.
Another problem: Advanced tumors – and their metastases – can no longer be completely removed. Chemotherapies, in turn, attack not only the tumor cells but also healthy cells throughout the body. Innovative nanoparticles could be a new approach to treat cancer more precisely.
The approach was developed by a research team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences, the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The therapy is now to be optimized for clinical application as quickly as possible.
Here’s one we weren’t expecting: the creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI, has unexpectedly announced that it’s ditching its charismatic CEO Sam Altman, effective immediately.
“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company wrote in the surprise announcement. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
The statement is strikingly vague about exactly what went off the rails with Altman, who cofounded the company alongside the also since-departed Elon Musk back in 2015.
Tesla is only going to deliver 10 Cybertrucks at the upcoming delivery event, according to a company executive.
After a lot of anticipation, years of waiting, and some delays, Tesla is finally going to deliver the Cybertruck at an event on November 30th.
We have been suspecting that Tesla would only deliver the electric pickup truck to employees and company insiders since it has yet to announce specs and pricing for the production version of the vehicle.