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FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to a total of 300 months in prison for seven counts of conspiracy and fraud charges. He has also been ordered to forfeit more than $11 billion, including property.

Emad Mostaque is stepping down as CEO of Stability AI. The company will be led by two interim co-CEOs, COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte. He says he is leaving the company to pursue decentralized AI.

OpenAI plans to meet with Hollywood studios, talent agencies, and media executives to show the potential of its Sora software this week. Sora will likely be released to the public later this year. The model could potentially upend the way movies are made.

Google plans to release three models of the upcoming Pixel 9 this year. There will be two versions in the premium range, the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL. The Pixel 9 will have a 6.03-inch display, the Pixel 9 Pro a 6.2-inch display, and the Pixel 9 Pro XL a 6.5-inch display.

Adam Neumann, former WeWork CEO, has submitted an unsolicited bid in excess of $500 million to acquire WeWork out of bankruptcy. The bid could potentially go up to $900 million pending due diligence.

Elon Musk says that Tesla's general-purpose humanoid robot Optimus, designed to take over repetitive tasks from humans, should cost less than half the price of a car. He has previously claimed that the demand for the robot could be as high as 10 to 20 billion units.

A study in mice shows that memories are formed from breaks in DNA. These breaks occur due to a rush of electrical activity and are repaired using an inflammatory response.

A study on MRIs of people born in the 1930s through to the 1970s found that babies in the 1970s had nearly 15% more brain surface area and 6.6% more brain volume than in the 1930s. Parts of the brain associated with memory and learning have also increased in size.

Boom Supersonic flew its prototype supersonic jet for the first time on Friday. XB-1 reached an altitude of 7,120 feet and a maximum speed of 273 mph, achieving all of its objectives.

California startup Ebb Carbon could start using seawater to remove hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air as soon as this year, according to plans and permit applications filed with the city of Port Angeles in Washington state.

Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena. Chatbot Arena is a leaderboard run by the Large Model Systems Organization, a research organization dedicated to open models.

Amazon finalized a $4 billion investment in Anthropic, its largest venture investment yet.

Apple is planning to enhance its AI offerings at WWDC 2024, potentially introducing an AI App Store where consumers can access AI apps from various vendors.

Elon Musk announced that xAI’s Grok chatbot, previously exclusive to Premium+ subscribers, will soon be available to all Premium subscribers on X.

Databrix and Mosaic have trained a 132B parameter MoE model with impressive performance. They trained the model on 3,000 H100s and have released the weights. The model is also available on the Databricks API.

Cerebras' new wafer chip can train 24T parameter language models. It natively supports PyTorch.

A compilation of Sora content generated from visual artists, designers, creative directors, and filmmakers.

Hume has released the Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.

University of Manchester mathematicians have developed an AI tool, CLASSIX, to rapidly identify emerging COVID-19 variants from genetic data, potentially streamlining the tracking of viral evolution and aiding in proactive responses like tailored vaccine development.

Valkey is a high-performance data structure server that primarily serves key/value workloads. It is an open-source fork of the popular Redis data store.

New project creation was halted on PyPI for around 10 hours while the site dealt with an onslaught of package uploads that executed malicious code on any device that installed them.

This article contains an interview with David Luan, one of OpenAI's early hires, a past leader of Google's LLM efforts and co-leader of Google Brain, and founder of Adept, one of the leading companies in the AI agents space.

This article helps readers understand the limits of computers and what computers cannot do. Most programmers seem to not understand these hard limits or what they mean.

Lapdev is a self-hosted application that creates remote development environments anywhere. It can scale from a single machine to a global fleet of servers.

CSV is common in the data science space as it is human-readable and super-easy to produce from almost any tool. However, the format is usually underspecified and CSV files have terrible compression and performance…

OpenAI is partnering with a small group of US builders to test usage-based GPT earnings with the goal of creating a vibrant ecosystem where builders are rewarded for their creativity and impact.

None of the things mentioned in the DOJ's case against Apple should be a surprise to anyone who has been following in the Apple space for years. The DOJ is fighting an uphill battle with its case, but it will hopefully apply some pressure on Apple to loosen its grip on some things…

Odyssey is a native Mac app for creating remarkable art, getting work done, and automating repetitive tasks with the power of AI and cutting-edge machine-learning models — all without a single line of code.

Researchers at Aston University achieved an internet data transmission speed of 301 terabits per second by utilizing wavelength bands that have not been previously used in fiber-optic systems.

The leaked images show a disc-less system with the same exterior design as the existing black Xbox Series X.