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Briefings highlight generational AI scaleups, startups, and projects. I was fortunate to have interviewed co-founder & CEO Grant Lee. Read on to learn more about the origins of Gamma, how it is defining a new UX with AI, and why it is a generational company. You can also read this article as a Gamma doc here: link. Gamma is the canvas for modern work documents. Users can create visually engaging, interactive documents easily by themselves or with the help of an AI assistant.Why Gamma is a generational companyEfficient momentum: Gamma is the most popular product in its category while having…
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Revolutionary weight-loss drugs like Wegovy come with a catch

Revolutionary weight-loss drugs like Wegovy come with a catch

This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every week by subscribing here.Anti-obesity drugs cause people to lose more than just fat.More than 73% of American adults are overweight, according to the CDC. This puts them at increased risk of death and many serious health issues, but losing weight and keeping it off through diet changes and exercise — the standard approach — is notoriously difficult.That made the FDA’s 2021 approval of Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide (Wegovy) as an obesity treatment seem like something of…
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The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: Behind the scenes

The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: Behind the scenes

FabNER Claude 2 accuracy on # of examples 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 100 200 300 400 500 20 examples F-Score Speed (words/s) GPT-3.5 1 78.6 < 100 GPT-4 1 83.5 < 100 spaCy 91.6 4,000 Flair 93.1 1,000 SOTA 2023 2 94.6 1,000 SOTA 2003 3 88.8 > 20,000 1. Ashok and Lipton (2023), 2. Wang et al. (2021), 3. Florian et al. (2003) SOTA on few- shot prompting RoBERTa-base * * EXPERIMENTS * * * EXPERIMENTS * * * EXPERIMENTS * * * CoNLL 2003: Named Entity Recognition Source link lol
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Meta and Activision face lawsuit by families of Uvalde school shooting victims

Meta and Activision face lawsuit by families of Uvalde school shooting victims

The families of the shooting victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas have sued Call of Duty publisher Activision and Meta. They alleged that the companies "knowingly exposed the shooter to the weapon [he used], conditioned him to see it as the solution to his problems, and trained him to use it." The plaintiffs also accused the companies of "chewing up alienated teenage boys and spitting out mass shooters."In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs explained that the Uvalde shooter played Call of Duty, which featured an assault-style rifle made by gunmaker Daniel Defense. They also mentioned that he frequently visited…
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Perform fully customizable rolling aggregations | Deephaven

Perform fully customizable rolling aggregations | Deephaven

Deephaven's version 0.33 release introduced several new features and improvements. Two methods that have the potential to save users a lot of time are the new Rolling Formula update_by operations: rolling_formula_tick and rolling_formula_time. These operations support user-defined formulas, which can be used to calculate rolling aggregations over a specified window of rows or time. Support for user-defined formulas opens up a whole new world of versatility for update_by. This is exciting for a few reasons.First of all, support for user-defined formulas opens up a whole new world of versatility for update_by. Rather than being limited to a single update_by operation,…
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Auto Industry Bets on SDVs, Hesitant to Write Off ICE – EE Times

Auto Industry Bets on SDVs, Hesitant to Write Off ICE – EE Times

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> The auto industry converged in London, U.K., again last week for the annual FT Future of the Car conference, now in its 10th year. The agenda reflected the long cycles of the automotive industry—many of the topics of discussion were similar to what was discussed last year. The themes were clear: we’re moving toward a future of software-defined vehicles (SDVs), of embodied AI in vehicles, and EVs are not the only game in town to solve net-zero targets. What was new this year was the acknowledgement of China being a…
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The long path of JavaScript – from ES6 until today.

The long path of JavaScript – from ES6 until today.

According to a Stack Overflow survey, JavaScript was the most popular language among developers in 2023. JavaScript was initially developed for Netscape Navigator - a web browser that was developed in the middle of 1990s - and now is being used in almost every domain of programming - Web Development, Mobile app development, Game development, Machine Learning and many others. But how did a language which was developed in 10 days by Brendan Eich become so popular? In this article, we will go through the life of JavaScript from ES6, which was released in 2015 and was the second major…
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German AI defence giant Helsing eyes $4B valuation in Series C funding

German AI defence giant Helsing eyes $4B valuation in Series C funding

German AI defense company Helsing is reportedly in talks to secure €370 million in Series C funding, potentially valuing the company at a staggering $4 billion. The round is said to be led by US VC giant General Catalyst, according to Forbes. In September last year, the company led Helsing in securing €209 million in Series B funding, solidifying its status as Europe's most well-funded defencetech startup and among the leading AI companies in the field.  The Series C would bring its funds to almost €700 million. Founded in 2021, Helsing develops AI-based capabilities to "protect our democracies."  The company has been active in…
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Watermarking AI-generated text and video with SynthID

Watermarking AI-generated text and video with SynthID

Company Published 14 May 2024 Announcing our novel watermarking method for AI-generated text and video, and how we’re bringing SynthID to key Google productsGenerative AI tools — and the large language model technologies behind them — have captured the public imagination. From helping with work tasks to enhancing creativity, these tools are quickly becoming part of products that are used by millions of people in their daily lives.These technologies can be hugely beneficial but as they become increasingly popular to use, the risk increases of people causing accidental or intentional harms, like spreading misinformation and phishing, if AI-generated content isn’t…
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Lost Files on Mac External Drive? Here’s How to Recover Them – gHacks Tech News

Lost Files on Mac External Drive? Here’s How to Recover Them – gHacks Tech News

Data loss from Mac external drives is a common and often frustrating experience. Whether it’s due to accidental deletion, formatting errors, drive corruption, or system crashes, losing valuable documents can disrupt your work and personal life. A reliable data recovery solution is essential to mitigate these disruptions and restore lost files quickly and effectively. Causes of Data Loss on Mac External Drives Losing data from Mac external drives can stem from various issues, each with its unique challenges. Here’s a closer look at the common causes: Accidental Deletion Mistakes happen, and sometimes files are deleted unintentionally. Often, these end up…
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