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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar. The students in Queensland ended up being exempt from the statewide exam on Wednesday while Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said he would investigate the mix-up, describing the experience for the students as “extremely traumatic.”Since the error in the curriculum was discovered on Monday, schools applied — and were granted — an exemption from the exam for their students, even as…

Microsoft’s early investments in OpenAI may seem like a no-brainer today, but Satya Nadella says the company and its founder, Bill Gates, saw the decision as a risk back then.Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, less than four years after its founding. The company has since invested over $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker.But getting that first investment deal across the finish line wasn’t that straightforward, Nadella said in an interview with “TPBN,” a tech-focused YouTube show, on Tuesday.”Even at Microsoft, you kind of got to have to get a board approval to just go throw a billion…

OpenAI’s Sora is facing a legal battle.Cameo, the startup known for personalized celebrity videos, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of trademark infringement over its new “Cameo” feature in the Sora video-generation app.In a complaint filed in the federal court of the Northern District of California on Tuesday, Cameo said OpenAI’s use of the “Cameo” name, which describes a virtual likeness that users can create and share on Sora, is likely to confuse consumers and dilute its brand.The company argued that OpenAI chose the name “in blatant disregard for the obvious confusion it would create.””When naming…

Microsoft and OpenAI have resolved a major dispute, addressing a lingering question ahead of the company’s earnings on Wednesday.On Tuesday’s “TPBN” podcast, the show hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella after the announcement, noting that he is now a “peacetime CEO,” as the dispute with OpenAI has been resolved.”I think AI and everything that it entails is going to be a core driver, and some of it’ll come from just this intelligence and this sort of continual march of capability,” Nadella said in response to the hosts’ question on what he expects from the…

In Bangor, Maine, Geoff Clarke has something a lot of Americans do not: high praise for his recent health care checkup.”If I was doing it in a dream, it was exactly like my dream,” Clarke told CBS News.Clarke is a new patient of Alley and Brad Tuttle, a husband and wife team who’ve started Apotheosis Health, offering what’s known as direct primary care. In this alternative care model, patients pay a regular fee in exchange for unlimited access to certain medical services, while cutting out insurance as a middleman.Direct primary care has exploded in the last decade, going from 140…

A number of monkeys were “destroyed” after they got loose Tuesday morning and Mississippi law enforcement officers were mistakenly told they were dangerous.The rhesus monkeys were being transported when the truck carrying them crashed in Jasper County, Mississippi, about 75 miles east of Jackson, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.The vehicle’s driver told deputies that the primates posed a threat to humans; that they were aggressive; that they had hepatitis C, herpes and Covid; and that they would require personal protective equipment to handle, the sheriff’s department said on Facebook.“The driver of the truck told local law…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took questions from the crowd.His responses during a live Q&A on Tuesday were almost as illuminating as the questions themselves.Altman outlined OpenAI’s shifting definition of AGI and his vision for the company’s future, acknowledged some recent blunders, once again tried to appease users who don’t wish to part with older models, and promised that adults would soon have greater freedom, well, to a point.Here’s a look at his most revealing quotes.’Our aspiration is that we can build an infrastructure factory where we can create one gigawatt a week of compute.’After a string of deals, OpenAI has…

(Reuters) -Eli Lilly said on Tuesday it was collaborating with Nvidia to build a supercomputer to help with drug discovery and shorten development cycles, getting medicines to people faster.Using the supercomputer, scientists at Lilly will be able to train AI models on millions of experiments to test potential medicines, expanding the scope of drug discovery efforts, the company said.A number of these proprietary AI models will be available on Lilly TuneLab, a federated artificial-intelligence and machine-learning platform that allows biotech companies access to drug discovery models trained on years of its research data.The federated model is a privacy-preserving approach that…

As companies push to increase efficiency and stay competitive, they’re encouraging, or in some cases outright requiring, workers to know how to use AI tools. However, the push for AI use has exposed a training gap.  “There are few solutions available on the market that are dedicated to non-technical people,” Aureliusz Gorski, founder and CEO of Warsaw-based CampusAI, told TechCrunch.  CampusAI’s solution? An educational platform focused on making learning accessible to everyday people who want to bring AI into their everyday workflows — whether that’s to help improve sales, HR, legal, or just give your personal branding a boost with…

Even after reviewing résumés, cover letters, and interviews, choosing the right candidate for a job can be a mysterious process. Hiring managers often rely on their biases about the world or gut feelings to inform their decision, making the process far from an exact science. That’s why Sarah Lucena built Mappa, an AI-powered behavioral intelligence platform that aims to take some of the guesswork out of hiring. Mappa trained an AI model to detect voice patterns that correlate with certain traits, such as communication style, empathy, and confidence. Applicants simply answer some questions from Mappa’s AI agent, and then the…