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Researchers have developed a new architecture for optical computing called diffraction casting, offering power-efficient processing by using light waves.

This method promises better integration and flexibility for high-performance computing tasks and could be used in fields like AI and machine learning.

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“The new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems,” https://openai.com/index/scale-the-benefits-of-ai/” rel=“noopener”>OpenAI said in its announcement of the deal on Wednesday.

The funding comes as the nine-year-old AI startup led by CEO Sam Altman faces increasing competition from the likes of https://fortune.com/company/alphabet/”>Google, Meta, and other AI startups, and at a time when OpenAI is dealing with its own growing pains—most famously, a boardroom coup last year in which Altman was briefly fired and then reinstated in a span of five days.

Since then, the company has been roiled by a https://fortune.com/2024/09/26/mira-murati-exit-openai-altma…ors-coup/”>string of high-level departures as it seeks to https://fortune.com/2024/09/13/sam-altman-openai-non-profit-…ext-year/”>evolve from its roots as a nonprofit research lab to a producer of commercial products capitalizing on the industrywide AI gold rush. Last month, OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati unexpectedly resigned to “create the time and space to do my own exploration.” And as Fortune reported this week, some insiders have voiced concerns that the https://fortune.com/2024/10/01/openai-sam-altman-mira-murati…ent-year/”>company’s commitment to safety has taken a back seat in the rush to release new products ahead of rivals.

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban’s smart glasses with facial recognition software.

🙄 I spend my nights riding, and thinking of ideas of how to save lives. AI and disruptive tech in my opinion will not replace jobs. It will make jobs much easier, through augmenting what a human can do like this.

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Lone Wolf rifle, with infrared and thermal vision, detects aerial threats using cutting-edge targeting tech.

Possibly equipped with an AR-15/M16-pattern rifle, the robot dog appears to be a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 quadrupedal-unmanned ground vehicle (Q-UGV).

The testing was conducted at Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center in Saudi Arabia.

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With the recent release of the iPhone 16, which Apple has promised is optimized for artificial intelligence, it’s clear that AI is officially front of mind, once again, for the average consumer. Yet the technology still remains rather limited compared with the vast abilities the most forward-thinking AI technologists anticipate will be achievable in the near future.

As much excitement as there still is around the technology, many still fear the potentially negative consequences of integrating it so deeply into society. One common concern is that a sufficiently advanced AI could determine humanity to be a threat and turn against us all, a scenario imagined in many science fiction stories. However, according to a leading AI researcher, most people’s concerns can be alleviated by decentralizing and democratizing AI’s development.

On Episode 46 of The Agenda podcast, hosts Jonathan DeYoung and Ray Salmond separate fact from fiction by speaking with Ben Goertzel, the computer scientist and researcher who first popularized the term “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI. Goertzel currently serves as the CEO of SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance, where he leads the projects’ efforts to develop the world’s first AGI.

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son sketched out one of the most aggressive timelines for the adoption of artificial intelligence yet, envisioning a near future where the technology would run entire households.

Artificial-intelligence tech company OpenAI said it has raised $6.6 billion in new funding, giving it a massive post-money valuation of $157 billion, almost double its previous reported valuation of $80 billion earlier this year.

The new round of funding was led by venture-capital firm Thrive Capital, with additional investors including Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Fidelity, Khosla Ventures, Altimeter Capital, United Arab Emirates-based MGX and Tiger Global. In 2024, OpenAI is projecting a $5 billion net loss on $3.7 billion in revenue, CNBC reported. Next year, the company is targeting $11.6 billion in revenue, per the report.

“We are making progress on our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,” OpenAI said in a statement announcing the funding. “Every week, over 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity and learning. Across industries, businesses are improving productivity and operations, and developers are leveraging our platform to create a new generation of applications. And we’re only getting started.”

We’re joined by Dr. Denis Noble, Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford, and the father of ‘systems biology’. He is known for his groundbreaking creation of the first mathematical model of the heart’s electrical activity in the 1960s which radically transformed our understanding of the heart.

Dr. Noble’s contributions have revolutionized our understanding of cardiac function and the broader field of biology. His work continues to challenge long-standing biological concepts, including gene-centric views like Neo-Darwinism.

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