Emily A. Vogels / Pew Research Center: A survey conducted in March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% have tried it themselves; roughly four in ten say it’s somewhat useful — About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) are familiar with ChatGPT, though relatively few have […]
Daily Archives: May 25, 2023
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Bloomberg: 3D printing companies Stratasys and Desktop Metal agree to combine in an all-stock transaction valued at ~$1.8B and expect to generate $1.1B in revenue in 2025 — Stratasys Ltd. agreed to acquire Desktop Metal Inc. in an all-stock deal that will create a leading 3D printer company valued at […]
Chris Stokel-Walker / The i Paper: Email: Twitter tells researchers to delete all Twitter data stored on their systems within 30 days after their agreement expires, or sign a new contract — EXCLUSIVEMove to hike price of academic access compared to ‘book burning’ amid fears it will harm fight against […]
Enlarge / Some real brie cheese in Paris. (credit: Getty | FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP) Plant-based foods can have a lot of health benefits—but one that may be overlooked is that they can help squash outbreaks. Such was the case in a small Salmonella outbreak from late 2020 to early 2021, outlined […]
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto) In December 2022, founder Elon Musk gave an update on his other, other company, the brain implant startup Neuralink. As early as 2020, the company had been saying it was close to starting clinical trials of the implants, but the December update suggested those were still six […]
Akriti Sharma / Reuters: Neuralink says it received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants — Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study.
Bloomberg: DCG is shutting down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023 — Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business …
Enlarge / Fecal samples in sediment collected from beneath this stone toilet seat at Armon Hanatziv, circa mid-7th century BCE, showed evidence of a dysentery-causing parasite (Giardia II). So did samples from a near-identical stone toilet at House of Ahiel. (credit: Ya’akov Billig) Last year, we reported on an analysis […]
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Applied Intuition, a provider of autonomous vehicle software, plans to acquire autonomous trucking software company Embark in a ~$71M all-cash deal — Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that recently cut 70% of its workforce, is being acquired by Applied Intuition …
Hugh Son / CNBC: Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs — – JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence …