Artificial placenta for premature babies
Researchers in Australia are working on an artificial placenta designed to give extremely premature babies more time to grow in a protected, womb-like environment before they must breathe and feed on their own. The experimental technology would continue supplying oxygen and nutrients through an umbilical cord, closely replicating the support a baby normally receives in
Spider-Man returns to Fortnite
Epic Games has officially announced that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is coming to Fortnite, with the teaser released across its social media channels, bringing another exciting Marvel crossover for players. The collaboration was teased on July 21, building excitement among fans worldwide. Spider-Man has always been one of Fortnite’s most popular crossover characters, making this
Bing AI Search Visibility
Microsoft’s Bing team published a framework describing how grounding for AI-generated answers differs from traditional search across five measurement areas. Microsoft’s Bing team published a framework describing how indexing requirements change when the goal is to ground AI answers rather than to rank search results. The post identifies five measurement areas where the company says
An OpenAI job listing described ambitions to build an ad network
OpenAI’s nascent ad business has been a platform for advertisers looking to reach ChatGPT users. Now, there’s evidence that OpenAI might want to jump into a new side of the market helping publishers and other companies sell their own ad space to marketers.The OpenAI job ad, posted last week, called for a “support delivery lead”
Apple Loses Court Battle
Apple’s request to overturn a $634 million patent verdict, and its bid for a new trial, in its long-running legal battle with Masimo have both been denied. Medical technology company Masimo sued Apple in early 2020, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and infringing patents related to pulse oximetry and other optical health-monitoring technologies
Google is building an AI fence around the internet
When Google prepared to go public in 2004, Larry Page, a co-founder of the company, wrote a letter to shareholders describing the internet firm’s responsibility to the world.Google fulfilled that responsibility by acting as a gateway to the internet. It answered people’s search queries with lists of hyperlinks, pushing users out to what is known
Tesla cash burn to test investor faith in AI
Tesla is expected to report its first quarterly cash burn in over two years on Wednesday, as its spending on AI and robotics soars, intensifying investor scrutiny over when those bets will pay off.CEO Elon Musk has pivoted the electric-vehicle maker’s focus from manufacturing cars to building so-called physical AI businesses such as self-driving taxis
Samsung built the foldable smartphone market
Samsung will take the wraps off its latest Galaxy Z Fold and Flip lineup this week, launching what could be the company’s most important foldable smartphones since it introduced the category nearly seven years ago. The timing, as any good batsman would tell you, matters here. The South Korean giant is preparing to unveil a
Google plans new chip to run Gemini models more efficiently
Google is developing a new server chip that would incorporate elements of its Gemini model directly into the hardware, in a bid to serve its AI models more efficiently to users, the Information reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Google plans to deploy the chip as soon as 2028, though engineers are
OpenAI halts AI model
OpenAI has revealed that it was forced to pause the internal deployment of one of its experimental AI models after it started trying to find ways to break free from its constraints. The ChatGPT creator said the long-running artificial intelligence model, built to operate autonomously for hours or even days, was able to identify blind