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In an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, made it very clear that he admires OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked what the plan will be when Microsoft’s enormous AI future isn’t so closely dependent on OpenAI, using a metaphor of winning a bicycling race. But Suleyman sidestepped.

“I don’t buy the metaphor that there is a finish line. This is another false frame,” he said. “We have to stop framing everything as a ferocious race.”

OpenAI has delayed its Voice Mode feature that allows users to have near-real-time conversations with ChatGPT.

Researchers propose a neuron-as-controller model, challenging the simplistic 1960s-era computational model of neurons.

Researchers at the University of Vienna led by Philip Walther just pioneered the field of quantum mechanics and general relativity by measuring “the effect of the rotation of Earth on quantum entangled photons,” as stated in a press release.

In the Vienna experiment, they used an interferometer, which is the most sensitive to rotations. Its unparalleled precision makes it the ultimate tool for measuring rotational speeds, limited only by the boundaries of classical physics.

The team wondered if they could somehow leverage crystalline structures to identify a perfect candidate, sans building thousands of them in a lab.

The researchers were mostly on the lookout for 3D crystals with the right structural and electronic properties, so they could be “exfoliated.” 2D materials like graphene were extracted using this process from 3D.

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MIT just produced three groundbreaking innovations that allowed them to map whole hemispheres of the human brain.

The slowing down of the inner core can likely “alter the length of a day by fractions of a second” on the Earth’s surface.

In a world first, a team of scientists has successfully developed the first flexible perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with a record efficiency of 22.8 percent.

While other scientists have developed flexible solar cells before, the new efficiency record sets a new precedent and represents a big step forward for the technology.

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GXO has partnered with Apptronik to explore Apollo humanoid robot’s use in warehouses. Apollo is the first commercial humanoid robot that was designed for friendly interaction and mass manufacturability.