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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 15)
Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology.
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These Startups Are Chasing the Next Big Thing in LLMsWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ()
“CEO Jensen Huang is running into a problem: Many of his customers can’t afford to buy his company’s coveted AI-powering chips. That explains why Huang teamed up with an array of Wall Street firms on a )
”‘[A brain-computer interface is] incredible for patients that are paralyzed. But imagine you put this on a person for other reasons. There is great responsibility,’ [said Rafael Yuste]. ‘Look what we have in our hands. We just built you a machine that can decode your language. And in 10 years, we’re going to give you a machine that can interfere with your thoughts the way we do it in mice today.‘”
Self-Driving Trucks Are Officially Testing on California HighwaysKirsten Korosec | TechCrunch
“Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test their autonomous vehicle technology on public roads. And Kodiak has already started. Kodiak said it is starting with a handful of test trucks in California, primarily around its Mountain View office.”
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The AI Takeover of Mathematics Has BegunRobert Hart | The Verge
“For all the fears and hopes, nobody knows where this is going. AI is moving too fast, and the mathematics it is producing is still too fresh to judge what its impact may be. Several researchers worried that the field could be reshaped for the worse by claims about what AI could become before anyone has had time to understand what it actually means.”
The World’s Largest ‘Biological Datacenter’ Could Help Make Animal Testing ObsoleteAdele Peters | Fast Company ()
“[Pairwise] is also working on peaches without pits, row crops resistant to a variety of diseases, fruit and nut trees that produce their first harvest within a year or two rather than three to eight, and a slew of other novel products, often in partnership with some of the world’s largest agribusinesses.”
Waymo Is Growing Faster Than Ever. So Are Its Glitches.Emmy Martin | The New York Times ($)
“What Ms. Peterson experienced is what the driverless car industry calls an ‘edge case,’ which are the unscripted situations that no one trained the robo-taxis to handle. The problem is that edge cases appear to be piling up as Waymo, the leading autonomous car service, rapidly expands. Owned by Google’s parent Alphabet, Waymo has more than quintupled the number of autonomous cars it has on the road to nearly 4,000 today, up from about 700 early last year.”
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