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[Daily Focus News] Biotech "#Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had pulled out of position is an issue the Elon Musk company has known about for years, according to five people familiar with the matter. The company knew from animal testing it had conducted ahead of its U.S. approval last year that the wires might retract, removing with them the sensitive electrodes that decode brain signals, three of the sources said. Neuralink deemed the risk low enough for a redesign not to be merited, the sources added." #neuralink #disclosure #tiny #wires #brain #patient #position #issue #elonmusk #company #animaltesting #approval #sensitive #electrodes #decode #signals #risk #redesign #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] Big Tech "#Google’s gunning for OpenAI’s Sora with Veo, an AI model that can create 1080p video clips around a minute long given a text prompt. Unveiled on Tuesday at Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference, Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and time lapses, and make edits and adjustments to already generated footage." #google #veo #openai #sora #ai #model #1080p #video #clips #text #prompt #unveiled #tuesday #io #developer #conference #visual #cinematic #styles #landscapes #timelapses #edits #adjustments #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] EV "The future of #Tesla Supercharging is uncertain following CEO Elon Musk’s disbanding of the Supercharging team as part of a broader restructuring. The roughly 500 layoffs included senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci and Daniel Ho, director of vehicle programs. Musk’s abrupt decision has raised concerns about the future of Tesla’s EV charging system, which has grown to be one of the largest EV charging networks in the world, with more than 55,000 charging ports, according to the company. ″I would describe the Supercharger network as one of the crown jewels of Tesla,” said Andres Pinter, co-CEO of Bullet EV Charging Solutions. “Instead of doing victory laps and building the Supercharger network and reaping the benefits of this asset, suddenly there’s this pause.” Bloomberg reported on Monday that Tesla has started hiring back some of the laid-off employees in the group, citing people familiar with the matter." #tesla #supercharging #ev #evcharging #supercharger #network #system #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] AI "#OpenAI announced a new flagship generative AI model on Monday that they call GPT-4o — the “o” stands for “omni,” referring to the model’s ability to handle text, speech, and video. GPT-4o is set to roll out “iteratively” across the company’s developer and consumer-facing products over the next few weeks. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said that GPT-4o provides “GPT-4-level” intelligence but improves on GPT-4’s capabilities across multiple modalities and media. “GPT-4o reasons across voice, text and vision,” Murati said during a streamed presentation at OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco on Monday. “And this is incredibly important, because we’re looking at the future of interaction between ourselves and machines.” GPT-4 Turbo, OpenAI’s previous “leading “most advanced” model, was trained on a combination of images and text and could analyze images and text to accomplish tasks like extracting text from images or even describing the content of those images. But GPT-4o adds speech to the mix." #openai #new #flagship #generativeai #aimodel #gpt-4o #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] AI "#TikTok already automatically applies an “AI-generated” tag to content on its platform made using TikTok’s AI tools, and that same label will now apply to content created on other platforms. Now, TikTok will detect when images or videos are uploaded to its platform containing metadata tags indicating the presence of AI-generated content and says it’s the first social media platform to support the new Content Credentials." #AI #platform #metadata #content #social #media #credentials #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] Robotics "Cleaning the outside of buildings is a dirty job, and it’s also dangerous. #Lucid Bots came on the scene in 2018 with its Sherpa line of drones to clean windows in tall places, and now it’s back to take on more labor-intensive tasks. The #Charlotte, N.C.-based company, which was part of Y Combinator’s 2019 cohort, took on a new form as a robotics company with a thesis to build intelligent robots that are purpose-made to tackle the “dirty” jobs that people don’t want to do, Ashur said". #cleaning #buildings #dirty #dangerous #drones #windows #laborintensive #robots #intelligent #purposemade #ycombinator #ashur #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] Hardware "President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using #digitaltwins. Digital twins are virtual models used to test and optimize physical objects and systems. For example, auto manufacturers are looking to use digital twins of their factories to experiment with new manufacturing processes without disrupting production. The Biden administration announced will be accepting applications for what it anticipates to be a total of $285 million in funding for work that includes research into semiconductor digital twin development, building and supporting combined physical/digital facilities, industry demonstration projects, workforce training, and operation of what it says will be a new CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute." #digitaltwins #semiconductor #manufacturing #funding #chipsact #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] AI "#Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is training a new, in-house AI language model large enough to compete with those from Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab and OpenAI, the Information reported on Monday. The new model, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being overseen by recently hired Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI startup Inflection, the report said, citing two Microsoft employees with knowledge of the effort. The exact purpose of the model has not been determined yet and will depend on how well it performs. Microsoft could preview the new model as soon as its Build developer conference later this month, the report said." #microsoft #mai-1 #new #ai #model #google #openai #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] Big Tech "#Samsung Electronics on Tuesday said operating profit for the first quarter jumped 932.8% as memory chip prices rebounded on the back of AI optimism. - Revenue: 71.92 trillion Korean won (about $52.3 billion), vs. 71.04 trillion Korean won - Operating profit: 6.61 trillion Korean won, vs. 5.94 trillion Korean won The figures were in line with the company’s guidance earlier this month, where Samsung said operating profit in the January-March quarter likely rose to 6.6 trillion Korean won, up 931% from a year ago. The firm expected first quarter revenue at 71 trillion won." #samsung #electronics #operating #profit #memory #chip #prices #rebound #ai #optimism #revenue #trillion #korea #kotra #kotrasvitc

[Daily Focus News] Big Tech "#Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. The generative artificial intelligence startup is the company behind Claude, one of the chatbots that, like #OpenAI’s ChatGPT and #Google’s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers including Google, Salesforce and Amazon, and in the past year, it’s closed five different funding deals totaling about $7.3 billion." #artificial #intelligence #executives #backers #google #salesforce #amazon #popularity #generative #openai #gemini #anthropic #kotra #kotrasvitc