Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan
Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU’s message-scanning law.
Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long AI that beats GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 on some tasks
It’s a big validation of Meta’s open source approach toward generative AI, and indicates that open source can compete with the closed source.Read More
New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods
Devastating deluges around the world point to the metropolis of tomorrow: the “sponge city.” Think more parks and fewer parking lots.
I Guess We’re All Talking to Our Glasses Now
This week, we cover the latest news from Meta: AI-enabled smart glasses, a VR headset, and an army of fresh chatbots.
Researchers unveil tool to help developers create augmented reality task assistants
Augmented reality (AR) technology has long fascinated both the scientific community and the general public, remaining a staple of modern science fiction for decades.
Sam Altman-backed Slope raises $30M for AI-powered B2B payments platform
Slope further offers financing for its customers’ customers, allowing those who can’t pay upfront to be granted credit options.Read More
Unleashing the power of AI to track animal behavior
Scientists have created a non-invasive movement tracking method called GlowTrack that uses fluorescent dye markers to train artificial intelligence to capture movement, from a single mouse digit to the human hand. GlowTrack has applications spanning biology, robotics, medicine, and beyond.
FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Trucks Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris
FedEx handles over 15 million packages daily. A two-armed, AI-infused robot is now helping pack some of them into delivery trucks with expert care.
From physics to generative AI: An AI model for advanced pattern generation
Generative AI, which is currently riding a crest of popular discourse, promises a world where the simple transforms into the complex—where a simple distribution evolves into intricate patterns of images, sounds, or text, rendering the artificial startlingly real.
Hollywood writers’ strike ends with first-ever protections against AI
The prohibitions seem flexible enough to enable AI to be used when writing screenplays, but only under the control and volition of a human.Read More