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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…

Tutoring is one of the most effective tools for improving a child’s education, yet very few kids in the U.S. receive it. A 2023 survey of the nation’s largest school districts found that fewer than 10% of students received tutoring. One factor is that tutoring is too expensive for many families, often costing hundreds or thousands of dollars a month. Tim Novikoff, a former Google product manager and educator, wants to change that. His startup, Super Teacher, offers an AI-powered tutoring app for elementary school students that costs $15 a month, or $10 with an annual plan. Super Teacher aims…

(Corrects headline and paragraph 2 to clarify that overall survival analysis is continuing, not that the treatment failed to extend overall survival)(Reuters) -Merck and Eisai’s experimental combination treatment helped extend the time certain patients with advanced kidney cell cancer lived without their disease progressing, according to interim data from a late-stage study.The combination of Merck’s Welireg and Eisai’s Lenvima has not yet shown statistical significance in extending overall survival – the trial’s other primary endpoint – when compared to Exelixis’ approved treatment Cabometyx, the drugmakers said on Tuesday.Overall survival, which measures the length of time patients live after diagnosis or…

Canada is on track to lose its measles elimination status as an outbreak that began a year ago continues to spread.The United States could follow in the coming months.The Canadian outbreak began in October 2024 in New Brunswick, a province on the country’s eastern seaboard. As of Tuesday, more than 5,000 cases had been reported. Two babies have died.Canada eliminated measles in 1998. The U.S. followed two years later, in 2000.There are multiple criteria for losing an official measles elimination status, including the declines in vaccination rates observed in both countries.But the most significant factor is having ongoing measles transmission…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to overrule any state laws that may protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt and other debt issues.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has drafted what’s known as an interpretative rule related to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, interpreting the law in a way that says the FCRA should preempt any state laws or regulations when it comes to how debt should be reported to the credit bureaus like Experian, Equifax and Trans Union.This repeals previous Biden-era rules and regulations that allowed states to implement their own credit reporting bans. More than…

On Tuesday morning, some Amazon employees learned they had lost their jobs — through text messages.Amazon sent two text messages early Tuesday to inform employees their jobs had been eliminated, according to people familiar with the matter and screenshots reviewed by Business Insider.One message urged affected employees to check their personal or work email before coming to the office. A second text directed them to call a help desk if they hadn’t received “an email message about your role.”The texts, sent shortly after email notifications, were intended to prevent laid-off employees from arriving at the office and discovering their badges…

When I covered Google a decade ago, the company’s driverless car project was a hot topic. Every time the press gathered, project lead Chris Urmson stepped up to answer questions.Most of us journalists were desperately trying to learn the key technical details on the fly, so we often resorted to the same question that we hoped would yield an interesting story: “When will cars be fully autonomous?”Urmson always did his best to answer, without committing Google to unrealistic timelines. After a while, he lost his patience or grew bored. One day in 2015, he made a joke, or rather, a…