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Meta may be about to lose one of its most renowned AI heads: Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at the company, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. LeCun, a professor at New York University, senior researcher at Meta, and winner of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, plans to leave in the coming months, and is already in talks to raise capital for a startup that would focus on continuing his work on world models, the report added. A world model is an AI system that develops an…
Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits seen in Down syndrome, according to new research my colleagues and I published in the journal Cell Reports.Down syndrome is caused by an error in cell division during development. Individuals receive three copies of chromosome 21 instead of the typical two copies, resulting in duplicates of the genes encoded on chromosome 21. This trisomy leads to a multitude of changes to heart and immune function as well as neurodevelopmental impairments.Changes to the structure of neurons in people with Down syndrome alter how they connect…
Jenny Shao was a practicing physician and was in residency at Harvard. During the pandemic, Shao saw that people in isolation had a neurological impact, and they needed support. This drove her to leave her medical career, the Harvard residency, to launch a start offering an AI assistant called Robyn. Robyn is intended to be an empathic, emotionally intelligent AI for people. Navigating human relationships with AI assistants is a tricky space. On the one hand, there are general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT; on the other, there are companion/friendship/avatar apps like Character.AI, Replika, and Friend, and even therapy apps like Feeling…
By Olivia Le PoidevinGENEVA (Reuters) -UNICEF said on Tuesday essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel, preventing aid agencies from reaching those in need in the war-devastated territory.As UNICEF undertakes a mass children’s vaccination campaign with a fragile ceasefire in place, it said it faces serious challenges getting 1.6 million syringes and solar-powered fridges to store vaccine vials into Gaza. The syringes have awaited customs clearance since August, UNICEF said.”Both the syringes and the … refrigerators are considered dual-use by Israel and these items we’re finding very…
Forget lab space and head count. The currency of modern research labs is GPUs — at least if you ask Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.The couple said that their philanthropy, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, needs computing power more than anything else to fulfill its new science and AI-centered mission.”We are not expanding a lot of square footage, per se, but we’re expanding our compute,” Chan said on an episode of “The a16Z Podcast” that aired November 6, when talking about their investment in Biohub, a collection of biology labs the philanthropy has backed since 2016.”The researchers, they don’t want employees…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Austin Nasso, the 30-year-old comedian and cofounder of Tech Roast Show, based in New York City. His employment at Microsoft has been verified by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been doing standup for 12 years. I went to UCLA, studied computer science, and started a comedy organization there. When I graduated, I went to Microsoft to be a software engineer in Seattle.In 2018, my friends and I started Tech Roast Show, which is a crowd-work show making fun of tech people, that we perform in…
Everyone should learn to vibe code, according to Andrew Ng.”The bar to coding is now lower than it ever has been,” Ng said in a talk at Snowflake’s “Build” conference on Monday. “People that code, be it CEOs and marketers, recruiters, not just software engineers, will really get more done than ones that don’t.”Ng is a Stanford professor and the founder of Google Brain. He now runs several AI-focused businesses.He added that it is a “wonderful time” for people to build something they’re passionate about because they can be done in less time and at costs that are much lower…
Lovable, the Stockholm-based AI coding platform, is closing in on 8 million users, CEO Anton Osika told this editor during a sit-down on Monday, a major jump from the 2.3 million active users number the company shared in July. Osika said the company — which was founded almost exactly one year ago — is also seeing “100,000 new products built on Lovable every single day.” The metrics suggest rapid growth of the startup, which has raised $228 million in total funding to date, including a $200 million round this summer that valued the company at $1.8 billion. Rumors have swirled…
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People often think about tech bubbles in apocalyptic terms, but it doesn’t have to be as serious as all that. In economic terms, a bubble is a bet that turned out to be too big, leaving you with more supply than demand. The upshot: It’s not all or nothing, and even good bets can turn sour if you aren’t careful about how you make them. What makes the question of the AI bubble so tricky to answer is mismatched timelines between the breakneck pace of AI software development and the slow crawl of constructing and powering a data center. Because these data centers take…