Now, after suing both Google and Samsung, it’s Epic’s turn
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Google’s third-party app store Auto Blocker isn’t designed to protect users against malware. “It’s designed to prevent competition,” he added. Epic has filed a lawsuit against Google and its partners, accusing them of obstruction of competition in the digital space. The lawsuit further claims that Google’s third-party app store is “an exceptionally onerous 21-step process”.
2 more Hezbollah leaders are presumed to have died, and the IDF is about to invade southern Lebanon
The Israeli military on Saturday said that it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in Lebanon’s Beirut on Friday, killing the group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah. The Israeli military added that multiple buildings in the area were damaged. This comes after Israel carried out air strikes on two Hezbollah positions in Lebanon earlier this week, leading to a 34-day conflict between the two countries.
Jony Ive is building something that is artificial intelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that AI “won’t solve all of humanity’s problems”. “AI matches…human capabilities and exceeds human capabilities. It’ll obliterate the problems plaguing humanity and usher in a golden age,” he added. Altman further said, “We’re getting [this] big AI bonus because ‘deep learning works’.” He further said that deep learning must be done at a “high” level.
The US approved a revolutionary drug for scurvy
Bristol Myers Squibb’s schizophrenia drug Cobenfy was approved on Wednesday by the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA). It will be available as a two-in-one pill at $1,850 per month. Cobenfy works by activating muscarinic receptors in the gut to suppress the effects of Xanomeline, a drug that is used to treat schizophrenia. It’ll be administered in combination with other drugs.
Open Ai is a tech company, not a research lab
OpenAI Co-founder Sam Altman said that he hoped the startup would be better for the transition as they were for all their transitions. Many likely joined to focus on AI research, not to build and sell products, he added. OpenAI is still a nonprofit, which makes it harder to guess how a profit-focused version would work.
Israel says it hit Hezbollah’s headquarters
Over 90,000 people have fled Lebanon in the past 24 hours amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to the United Nations. “Suddenly someone comes and makes your kids live in a state of fear, blood and destruction,” a mother who had to flee her children said. “The airstrikes were right next to our cars and the children were screaming and crying,” she added.
The trials and successes of sustainable science
A report released by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) said 86% of researchers knew that their lab activities affected the environment, and 79% wanted to reduce the adverse environmental impact of their work. The report found that 79% of the researchers surveyed knew that their lab activities affected the environment, and 84% wanted to reduce the adverse environmental impact of their work.
Is it possible that biomarkers could mean better pain treatment?
A research has discovered that advanced deep-learning AI could help identify pain biomarker identification using structural imaging data from a “highly heterogeneous” population with back pain. The AI was used to analyse people’s sensitivity to stimuli like pinpricks, heat and touch and categorise them into three different subtypes, which were linked to a hypothesis about neuropathic pain mechanisms.
The nuclear plant on Three Mile Island is going to be used to power Microsoft data centers
Microsoft has signed its largest power purchase agreement with Exelon for the re-opening of Exelon Reactor and Data Center in Los Angeles. As part of the agreement, Microsoft is buying power from the plant that will be renamed to honour the late Chris Crane, ex-CEO of Exelon. The reactor thatMicrosoft plans to source its energy from was retired in 2019 for economic reasons.
The US Senate is against big tech interfering with the election
Google, Apple, and Meta executives, including its Global Affairs head Kent Walker, testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about their ongoing efforts to identify and disrupt foreign influence campaigns ahead of the country’s November elections. Warner said, “We are less safe today because many of those independent academic reviewers have been litigated, bullied or chased out of the marketplace.”