Claudine Gay won’t step down for testimony about antisemitism
The case against Harvard President Larry Gay’s explanation for Israel-Hamnas discrimination isn’t about high school presidents being responsible for anti-Israel students, a communication professor said. “There is a huge amount of pressure right now on college presidents…to restrain student protests,” Jason Shepard said. Gay’s explanation for Israel-Hamnas discrimination was criticised by several US lawmakers and students after a congressional hearing.
An Illegal Monopoly was Ruled by the App Store
Google violated federal and California antitrust laws with deals that stifled competition for its Play mobile app store, a jury found on Thursday. The verdict comes after a four- week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within the Play store. The verdict was unanimous after just three hours of deliberations. Apple prevailed in a similar case that Epic brought against the iPhone store.
In a lawsuit, the jury found that the app store had ruled an illegal Monopoly
Google and Epic Games have agreed to mediation instead of a trial after a US judge ruled that Apple’s fight against Google over its App Store had nothing to do with apps. The judge ruled that he didn’t intend to decide what percentage fee Google should charge for products. Epic Games had filed the lawsuit in 2020 over Google’s App Store.
Alex Jones is allowed back on X by Elon Musk
During a live interview with radio host Alex Jones, Elon Musk said that he wasn’t going to live in Groundhog Day. “It was answered,” he added. Musk had recently reinstated Alex Jones’ account on ‘X’ after he had earlier endorsed some of the white nationalist views promoted by Jones. Jones had earlier said that he’s going to die in Groundhog Day.
It seems that Apple has found a way to block the new app
Beeper’s CEO David O’Reilly has said that the Beeper Cloud, Beeper Mini’s security measures and his team’s ideas left for Beeper Mini are signs that Apple can’t keep it out forever. “I hope that the court of public opinion will convince Apple to play nice,” O’Reilly said. “I hope the court of public opinion will eventually convince Apple to play nice,” he added.
Europe reached a deal on the first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules
The European Union (EU) Parliament has approved a proposal for the country’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The EU AI Act is aimed at banning the use of AI for any purpose, however, some governments have sought exemption for law enforcement or national security. The proposed rules are set to be implemented from 2021 and would cover general purpose AI models.
New rules were passed in the EU to regulate Artificial Intelligence
The European Union and people using artificial intelligence reached an agreement on the details of the Act. The agreement establishes obligations for high-impact general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems that meet certain benchmarks, like risk assessments, adversarial testing, incident reports, and more. It also mandates transparency to those systems that include creating technical documents and detailed summaries about the content used for training.
The FDA approves the first treatment for a human illness
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two gene therapy drugs for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where red blood cells carry oxygen through the body, to be used as treatments. One of the therapies is called ‘Casgevy’ and it uses removing cells from each patient’s bone marrow, editing a gene and then returning billions of the modified cells to patients.
At least one demo of the new artificial intelligence that was launched byGOOGL was not real
Google has released its artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini Nano, which it claims to be one of the world’s “most capable” systems for text-to-speech. The tool is available in Pixel 8 Pro for WhatsApp replies. It is designed to work across text, images, audio, video, and code. The tool is also available only in English on Google Apps.
A giant experiment will try to find out if rockdust can absorb carbon emissions
US-based startup Lithos Carbon has received $57.1 million in funding from US-based Frontier Benefit Corporation, a benefit corporation backed by a group of companies looking to finance promising approaches to carbon dioxide removal. It charges $370 per tonne for carbon removal and a quarter of that will go towards field monitoring and modelling to verify that carbon is being sequestered away from the atmosphere.