March 20, 2024

Musk’s Neuralink shows off first implant patient: ‘like using The Force’

Noland Arbaugh is a 29-year-old quadriplegic patient who says he was paralyzed eight years ago in a diving accident.Read More

Carl Franzen March 20, 2024

Astera Labs’ IPO pops 54%, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI-twist is high

Astera Labs started its life as a public company trading at $52.56 per share, up 46% when the bell rang. The company priced its IPO last night at $36 per share, above its raised price range. Astera’s debut marks the first material technology offering this year that TechCrunch is tracking. Reddit, the well-known social forum and AI data provider, is expected to price after the close of trading today and begin its own public saga

Rebecca Szkutak March 20, 2024

With backing from NATO Innovation Fund, OTB Ventures will invest $185M into European deep tech | TechCrunch

Not a day goes by without some confirmation that deep tech is on the rise in Europe — and public and private capital investors are here for it. Latest case in point, OTB Ventures, which closed a $185 million fund to invest in deep tech in Europe that it will mostly deploy at the Series A stage. However, up to 10% could be allocated to seed funding, and more than 50% to follow-on investments. OTB’s

Anna Heim March 20, 2024

Google to IBM: How big tech giants are embracing Nvidia’s new hardware and software services

Nvidia shared how it is evolving its work with several industry giants by taking its newly announced AI computing infrastructure, software and services to their tech stack.Read More

Shubham Sharma March 20, 2024

‘Attention is All You Need’ creators look beyond Transformers for AI at Nvidia GTC: ‘The world needs something better’

Seven of the eight authors of the Transformers paper, which led to the gen AI boom, gathered to chat at GTC with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.Read More

Sharon Goldman March 20, 2024

Personalized Soups: LLM Alignment Via Parameter Merging – Conclusion & References | HackerNoon

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EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars March 20, 2024

The 2024 Inundation of Fake Photos, Videos and Documents: And Why 2023 Was Just the Beginning | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read The ability to generate fake or AI-altered photos is now in the hands of the masses. In 2024, it will become standard practice to run every questionable photo, video and document through AI systems to determine their authenticity. There are a number of efforts circulating to help resolve the issue of fakes, ranging from government policies and controls to anti-AI frameworks.

Nicos Vekiarides March 20, 2024

Crypto Taxes: Ignorance Is Never Bliss! | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read Income tax will normally apply to any ‘disposal’ of crypto – this includes selling for NZD/USD or trading it for another crypto. Income tax also applies to your income on crypto holdings, e.g. staking or yield. Rules and regulations around crypto gains vary significantly from one region to another.

Janine Grainger March 20, 2024

Computer-aided diagnosis for lung cancer screening

Posted by Atilla Kiraly, Software Engineer, and Rory Pilgrim, Product Manager, Google Research Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally with 1.8 million deaths reported in 2020. Late diagnosis dramatically reduces the chances of survival. Lung cancer screening via computed tomography (CT), which provides a detailed 3D image of the lungs, has been shown to reduce mortality in high-risk populations by at least 20% by detecting potential signs of cancers earlier. In

Google AI March 20, 2024

Robotics

Micropsi Industries’ MIRAI 2 offers faster deployment and scalability – The Robot Report

Listen to this article MIRAI 2 is the latest generation of Micropsi Industries’ AI-vision software. | Source: Micropsi Industries Micropsi Industries today announced MIRAI 2, the latest generation of its AI-vision software for robotic automation. MIRAI 2 comes with five new features that the company says enhance manufacturers’ ability to reliably solve automation tasks with variance in position, shape, color, lighting, or background. The Berlin, Germany-based company says MIRAI 2 offers users even greater reliability,

The Robot Report Staff March 20, 2024