December 4, 2024

Hardware

Meta ‘taking an open approach’ with nuclear energy, small modular reactors for AI datacenters

TL;DR: Meta is exploring nuclear energy for AI training, aiming to add 1-4 GW of nuclear capacity in the U.S. by the early 2030s. They seek developers to accelerate nuclear technology deployment, reduce costs, and support decarbonization. This initiative aligns with Meta’s goal for a cleaner, reliable, and diversified electric grid. Meta is shifting into the warm arms of nuclear power for its AI training, with the company posting a new blog on its sustainability

Anthony Garreffa December 4, 2024

Lumina invests $2M in Fortnite UGC studio Creator Corp

Creator Corp announced a $2M investment from Lumina, which it plans to use build out it portfolio of UEFN games.Read More

Rachel Kaser December 4, 2024

Robotics

Helping robots make good decisions in real time

In 2018, Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero program taught itself the games of chess, shogi, and Go using machine learning and a special algorithm to determine the best moves to win a game within a defined grid. Now, a team of Caltech researchers has developed an analogous algorithm for autonomous robots — a planning and decision-making control system that helps freely moving robots determine the best movements to make as they navigate the real world. “Our algorithm

Editor December 4, 2024

Software

Join the Codex Public Testnet: Help Defend Against Data Censorship | HackerNoon

The Codex public testnet has officially launched and has been operational since October, marking an important milestone toward building a censorship-resistant, durable future of decentralized data. Codex is a decentralized storage network and data durability engine (DDE) that aims to foster a robust digital economy and freer societies where key data storage infrastructure is resistant to censorship, hacks, and outages. Anyone can download and run a node on the Codex testnet today, joining a community

Logos December 4, 2024

Master Web App Development in Minutes with V0 AI | HackerNoon

What if you could build an entire Web App just by describing it? Today, I’ll show you how Vercel’s V0 revolutionizes web development. In about 5 minutes, you’ll learn how to turn text into a production-ready Web App. Let’s dive in! What is V0? Vercel’s V0 is a generative AI tool that streamlines Web App development by transforming user input into ready-to-use code. It supports various frameworks such as React, Vue, Svelte, and HTML with

Vladislav Guzey December 4, 2024

Mad Mushroom unveils 2 action RPGs: Hell Clock and Conquest Dark

Mad Mushroom, the influencer-owned game publisher in the OTK Network, announced two new action RPG titles at the OTK Winter Games Expo.Read More

Dean Takahashi December 4, 2024

Robotics

Study finds both AR and robot-assisted surgeries enable high precision – The Robot Report

Listen to this article An HSS study tested the effectiveness of robot-assisted and augmented reality surgeries. | Source: Adobe Stock A study at the Hospital for Special Surgery, or HSS, comparing robot-assisted navigation to the use of augmented reality in spinal surgery found that both techniques demonstrate excellent accuracy and safety for pedicle screw placement. More than 1.2 million spinal surgeries are performed in the U.S. each year, according to the National Center for Health

The Robot Report Staff December 4, 2024

AWS debuts advanced RAG features for structured, unstructured data

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Getting enterprise data into large language models (LLMs) is a critical task for enabling the success of enterprise AI deployments. That’s where retrieval augmented generation (RAG) fits in, which is an area where many vendors have offered various solutions. Today at AWS re:invent 2024 the company announced a series of new services and updates designed to

Sean Michael Kerner December 4, 2024

How to Interpret Matrix Expressions — Transformations

Matrix algebra for a data scientist Jaroslaw Drapala · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 23 min read · 5 hours ago — Photo by Ben Allan on Unsplash This article begins a series for anyone who finds matrix algebra overwhelming. My goal is to turn what you’re afraid of into what you’re fascinated by. You’ll find it especially helpful if you want to understand machine learning concepts and methods. Table of contents: Introduction

Jaroslaw Drapala December 4, 2024

What Teaching AI Taught me About Data Skills & People

Three key lessons from my journey as a corporate AI educator Max Hilsdorf · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 6 hours ago — Photo by Mikhail Nilov. As an AI Educator, my job was to equip corporate teams with the data & AI skills they needed to thrive. But looking back, I realized that I learned far more from them that they did from me. Here’s what teaching 2000+

Max Hilsdorf December 4, 2024