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☆ Russia has lost access to CERN in a sign that its war in Ukraine is causing a major scientific brain drain
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

CERN is revoking access for 500 Russian scientists over the Ukraine war, cutting them off from key facilities. But experts say the move is a major setback for Russian science, and is fueling brain drain. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Pierre Albouy/ReutersTriggering a Russian brain drainScientific experts, including several with working ties to CERN, spoke about the consequences to Russia and the wider scientific community. Advertisement"The relationship with Russian scientists has always been very strong because they have a very long and very good reputation in particle physics," Grimes said.

Persons: —, Denis Balibouse, Mikhail Kovalchuk, Sidortsov, Vladimir Putin, CERN's, Pierre Albouy, Kate Shaw, Roger Cashmore, Robin Grimes, Putin, Grimes, Lionel Flusin, It's, Arnaud Marsollier, Marsollier, Anja Niedringhaus, Tara Shears, Shaw Organizations: CERN, Service, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Collider, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Reuters, Kremlin, TASS, Kurchatov Institute, UK's University of Sussex, London's Imperial College, Foreign, Commonwealth Office, Getty, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Nature, CERN's Globe, UK's University of Liverpool Locations: Ukraine, Geneva, Switzerland, Russia, Belarus, Moscow, Europe, Russian, Soviet, Novaya, CERN's

In a speech to Congress, also on Tuesday, with López Obrador sitting a few steps from her, the promises seemed more tangible. It is far less than the 2.6 million barrels per day López Obrador promised at the beginning of his term. Experts said Mexico would not be able to increase oil production using traditional methods, because its fields are getting tapped out. Mexico is almost out of oil,” said Adrian Fernandez, who holds a PhD in environmental science from Imperial College London and directs the Mexico Climate Initiative, a think tank. Before leaving office, López Obrador pushed through a constitutional reform that strongly favors the Federal Electricity Commission.

Persons: —, Claudia Sheinbaum, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ”, López Obrador, Sheinbaum, Rosanety Barrios, Enrique Peña Nieto, Adrian Fernandez, Fernández, Hurricane John, Hurricane Otis, Claudia, ” Barrios Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Federal Electricity Commission, Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission, Ministry of Energy, Imperial College London, Mexico Climate Initiative, United Nations, Hurricane, CFE, Associated Press Locations: MEXICO, López, Mexico, Paris, Dos Bocas, Acapulco, Guerrero, AP.org

☆ These are the 10 most valuable college degrees—all but 1 help grads earn six figures
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Electrical engineeringMedian salary: $115,000$115,000 Unemployment rate: 1.9%1.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 47.6%2. Computer engineeringMedian salary: $112,000$112,000 Unemployment rate: 2.1%2.1% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 38.8%3. Petroleum engineeringMedian salary: $100,000$100,000 Unemployment rate: 0.9%0.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 39.2%4. Aerospace engineeringMedian salary: $105,000$105,000 Unemployment rate: 1.9%1.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 48.9%5. Mechanical engineeringMedian salary: $100,000$100,000 Unemployment rate: 1.9%1.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 38.9%7.

Persons: Bankrate, It's, Get Organizations: Survey, Computer, Petroleum, Aerospace, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Actuaries, CNBC

☆ The AI boom turned Nvidia into a trillion-dollar giant. Its next big bet is even more complex.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In addition to the Computex display, humanoid robots have come up on Nvidia's last two earnings calls. The first is self-driving cars and the second is likely to be humanoid robots. Project Groot, which the company refers to as a "moonshot" initiative, is a foundation model for humanoid robots. AdvertisementIt feels like every player aiming for humanoid robots is in it for themselves, Kapoor said. Simulators are an essential stop on the path to humanoid robots, but they don't necessarily lead to human-like perception.

Persons: Jensen, —, Jensen Huang, gesturing, Elon Musk, Huang, Raul Martynek, Databank, Isaac, Tesla, That's, Sophia Velastegui, who's, William, Omniverse, Ashish Kapoor, Kapoor, Jonathan Stephens, Martynek, Velastegui Organizations: Service, Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, BMW, Boston Dynamics, BYD Electronics, Siemens, sunsetted, Foundations, Grid, Scaled Foundations, Star Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, Computex

☆ The unsung warriors of 'The Price Is Right'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

As one of the game show's four models known as "Barker's Beauties," Hallstrom had been a morning fixture in millions of homes. Hallstrom hasn't seen "The Price Is Right" in ages, and she winces when I say its name. The Price is Right / Internet ArchiveHallstrom, like her mother, was also modeling on the side. To counteract its image, "The Price Is Right" announced that Barker's Beauties would be adding a Black model. "I want you folks to know that the lovely Dian is leaving 'The Price Is Right' to pursue other interests," Barker announceAdvertisement"You are the heart and soul of 'The Price Is Right,'" she told the audience.

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☆ The Unsung Warriors of 'the Price Is Right' Who Took on Bob Barker
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

As one of the game show's four models known as "Barker's Beauties," Hallstrom had been a morning fixture in millions of homes. To counteract its image, "The Price Is Right" announced that Barker's Beauties would be adding a Black model. "That's exactly how we knew when she started having sex with Barker," Hallstrom says. "If one more thing happens on that set," Barker told him, "fire Holly." Before she left the show, Parkinson told Bradley she'd been fighting a stomach ulcer from all her battles with Barker.

☆ Elon Musk once described his past immigration status as a ‘gray area’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

So we just rented the office, and slept in the office, and showered at the YMCA,” Elon Musk recalled, drawing laughs from the crowd. “When they did fund us,” Kimbal Musk recalled, “they realized that we were illegal immigrants.”“Well…” Elon Musk interjected. Video of the remarks shows Elon Musk laughing as he jumped in with a different interpretation: “I’d say it was a gray area.”He didn’t elaborate, and it’s unclear what Elon Musk meant by that characterization. Elon Musk, wearing a black Stetson hat, livestreams while visiting the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 28, 2023. Then-President Donald Trump greets Elon Musk before a policy and strategy forum with executives at the White House in February 2017.

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☆ Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' obeys a scientific law that was invented 52 years later. It reveals the painter's keen observations of nature.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. Researchers found van Gogh's swirls fit patterns seen in clouds, water, and other natural objects. AdvertisementThe physics of van Gogh's brushstrokesThe swirls in van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seem to adhere to mathematical principles that describe turbulence. But the fact that "The Starry Night" resembles turbulent activity so accurately is a testament to the painter's keen observation of nature. AdvertisementVan Gogh captured at least one element of turbulenceVincent van Gogh painted other masterpieces in addition to "The Starry Night."

Persons: Van Gogh's, couldn't, van, —, Vincent van Gogh, van Gogh, Yongxiang Huang, Huang, Ma, Andrey N, Kolmogorov, Van Gogh, mutilating, Gogh, Barnard, Janna Levin Organizations: Service, Batchelor Locations: van, France

☆ Elon Musk's 'autocratic' style made SpaceX thrive — but his fixations could threaten its dominance, according to a new book
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Elon Musk near a Falcon 9 rocket at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California in 2018. SpaceXSo much of the way SpaceX operates, as you tell it in the book, is Elon Musk's hands-on management and the way he pushes his workers. I don't think Elon does very well in those types of environments. I don't really understand the entire arc of his changing political views over the last decade. I don't think the regular person really understands what a technological leap Starship is.

Persons: Eric Berger, Elon Musk, Berger, —, Elon Musk's, Elon, David McNew, Jared Isaacman, it's, We've, What's, Obama, he's, Sarah Gillis, You've, you've Organizations: Business, Service, SpaceX, Falcon, Ars Technica, Tesla, Twitter, Elon, House, Polaris Dawn, Crew Locations: Hawthorne , California, United States, Russia

☆ A 20 year-old built a nuclear fusion prototype in his home for $2,000. Here's how he did it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The nuclear fusion prototype generates a glowing orb of plasma. Nuclear fusion reactors that can generate fusion are usually much larger, like this now-retired Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at PPPL. It can't produce nuclear fusion, but it can achieve plasma, which is where nuclear fusion takes place and is a major step in the overall process. How Nazoordeen made his nuclear fusion prototype from scratchNazoordeen wasn't afraid to ask for help. Everything you need to make a nuclear fusion prototype can probably fit on your desk (banana included).

Persons: —, Nazoordeen, He'd, Claude, I'd, Nazoordeen Nazoordeen, Uber, Carlos Paz, wasn't, Paz, Soldan, Nazoordeen's, Hudhayfa, he's Organizations: Service, Business, University of Waterloo, PPPL . Princeton Plasma Physics, eBay, Columbia University Locations: PPPL

☆ How an 'AI sabbatical' helped accounting startup Klarity turbocharge its business
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"We just gutted our product and rebuilt it using generative AI." 'The rules of physics have changed'Even before its sabbatical, Klarity was well-versed in natural language processing and computer vision. Nadhamuni gave a talk on generative AI, its history, and the latest breakthroughs in the technology. If the new tech could do those five things, they would rebuild the core of Klarity's platform using generative AI. Nadhamuni also wrote a playbook on how to run a generative AI sabbatical that's available on Tola Capital's blog.

Persons: —, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Nischal Nadhamuni, Nadhamuni, Klarity, Friedman, Gross, Aaron Fleishman, Fleishman, OpenAI, Miro, Tola Organizations: Service, Business, MIT, Venture Partners, Tola, Picus, Invus, Engineers

☆ Astronomers spot the most massive black hole jets ever observed
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in length, making these black hole jets the largest ever seen, according to new research. Black hole jets can accelerate radiation and particles close to the speed of light, causing them to glow in wavelengths visible to radio telescopes. The massive black hole jets could help answer both. Martijn Oei (pictured), lead author of the new study, and his colleagues will continue their search for massive black hole jets.

Persons: Martijn Oei, ” Oei, Europe’s, Oei, “, Aivin Gast, Gast, LOFAR, “ Aivin, Porphyrion, NASA's, Powell, Nelson, Martin Hardcastle, Sasha Tchekhovskoy, ”, Tchekhovskoy Organizations: CNN —, California Institute of Technology, Astrophysics, University of Oxford, NASA, JPL, Caltech, CNN, Keck, NASA's Goddard, University of Hertfordshire, Northwestern University Locations: India, Hawaii, England

☆ Edwin Moses: For 9 years, 9 months and 9 days he was unbeaten: A new film documents the journey of Olympic icon
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Sabrina Clay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Edwin Moses always loved the sport of track and field. For nine years, nine months and nine days Moses was unbeaten in races, winning 122 in a row. Moses’ journey on and off the field is chronicled in the new documentary, “Moses – 13 Steps,” produced by Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman. Danny Harris (right) crosses the finish line first to beat Moses (left) in the 400m hurdle race in 1987 to end Moses' 122-race winning run. If I’d have gone to name the school and name the track program with all the best coaches and everything, there would have never been no Edwin Moses.

Persons: Edwin Moses, Moses, progessively, Moses –, ” Moses, “, –, ”, Laureus, Moses ’, “ Moses –, Oscar, Morgan Freeman, Morgan, ‘ Edwin Moses, ’, Danny Harris, Adam Lubroth, it’s, John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John, Morehouse, Edwin Moses I Organizations: New, New York CNN, Morehouse College, CNN, Olympic, Olympic Games, Broadview, Good Foundation, Morehouse, IOC, ‘, AFP, Getty Locations: New York, Germany, Europe, Madrid, United States, Mexico, Dayton , Ohio, Vietnam, Washington

☆ Tiny lizard ‘scuba dives’ and hides out from predators
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Reptiles are astonishingly diverse, with extraordinary adaptations such as a tiny lizard in Costa Rica that has evolved a way to “scuba dive,” according to new research. Fantastic creaturesUsing the air bubble helps the anole to stay underwater longer, and the technique may help the tiny lizard hide from predators, researchers say. This ability allows the lizard to stay underwater for a prolonged period of time. Across the universeAn artist's concept depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. Along the way, Voyager 1 found a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons as well as five new moons orbiting Saturn.

Persons: Lindsey Swierk, Kaspar Hauser, ”, Hauser, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Vincent van Gogh, ” Timothy A, Clary, Vincent van Gogh’s, It’s, King Ramses II, — Helga, Zohar, Artemis, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, NASA, JPL, Caltech, NASA’s, International, Getty, Orion, Artemis, CNN Space, Science Locations: Costa Rica, Costa Rica’s, Nuremberg, Germany, Bristol, England, AFP, China, France, Egypt

☆ I married my high school sweetheart. Here's what everybody gets wrong about love stories like mine.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Autumn Gavora | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

That night, Daniel showed up at my house for a movie night I was hosting with friends. Over the years, I've found that people have many assumptions about high school sweethearts. We must have a house full of kids by now, with at least one in high school. AdvertisementLiving in the Bible Belt, getting married at a younger age is common due to religious reasons or family values. It's as if our love story is something out of a fairytale, a rare and beautiful journey I'm blessed to live.

Persons: —, Daniel, me, I've, didn't, we'd, Schellie Hogan, We're Organizations: Service, Blockbuster, Business

☆ Indian ed-tech startup Physics Wallah bags $2.8 billion valuation amid sector troubles
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Indian education technology startup Physics Wallah announced on Friday that it had raised $210 million as it looks to expand its business, in part via acquisitions, amid troubles in the sector. The funding, led by Hornbill Capital, and involving Lightspeed Venture Partners, GSV and WestBridge, values the company at $2.8 billion, a significant increase from its last valuation of $1.1 billion. Physics Wallah, founded in 2020, is one of India's many education technology, or ed-tech firms, that offers free and paid-for courses for various competitive examinations in India. Pandey said the company is open to acquisitions provided it gives them access to new content and users. Last year, Physics Wallah brought a 50% stake in Xylem Learning, an ed-tech company headquartered in Kerala in south India.

Persons: …, Alakh Pandey, Pandey, Wallah Organizations: Hornbill Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CNBC, YouTube Locations: India, Kerala

☆ Nuclear fusion: The US led in this clean energy race for decades. Now China is in position to win
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Angela Dewan | Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

It’s also here, on an unassuming downtown street, a small start-up called Energy Singularity is working on something extraordinary: nuclear fusion energy. Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun and other stars, is painstakingly finicky to replicate on Earth. The Chinese government is pouring money into the venture, putting an estimated $1 billion to $1.5 billion annually into fusion, according to Jean Paul Allain, who leads the US Energy Department’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences. The US was among the world’s first to move on the futuristic gambit, working on fusion research in earnest since the early 1950s. CNNThe US has been a fusion leader for decades; it was the first nation to apply fusion energy in the real world — in a hydrogen bomb.

Persons: It’s, Lam Yik Fei, Jean Paul Allain, Biden, “, it’s, ” Allain, Andrew Holland, Holland, ”, ” Holland, Damien Jemison, Lawrence, Melanie Windridge, Mikhail Maslov, Allain Organizations: CNN, 6G, Beijing outspends DC, New York Times, US Energy Department’s, Fusion Energy Sciences, Private, Nikkei . Energy, MIT, Fusion Industry Association, Princeton, Physics, American, America, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ” CNN, China’s National Energy Administration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Fusion Energy, EAST, UK Atomic Energy Authority Locations: Shanghai, America, China, Beijing, Washington, DC, Japan, Europe, United States, Hefei, Xinhua, Massachusetts, Hiroshima, California, Lawrence Livermore

☆ Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ may align with a scientific theory
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new analysis by physicists based in China and France suggests the artist had a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulent flow. Batchelor’s scaling mathematically represents how small particles, such as drifting algae in the ocean or pieces of dust in the wind, are passively mixed around by turbulent flow. “I think this physical relationship must be embedded in his mind so that’s why when he made this famous ‘Starry Night’ painting, it mimics the real flow,” Huang said. “What I take away from studies like this is that (van Gogh) captured some of this universality in the beautiful (‘Starry Night’),” Beattie added.

Persons: Vincent van Gogh’s, ”, Yongxiang Huang, Van Gogh, mutilating, van Gogh's, Huang, Andrey Kolmogorov, John Constable, De Agostini, James Beattie, Beattie wasn’t, van Gogh, ” Huang, Beattie, “, Van Gogh’s, Yinxiang, Gogh, ” Beattie Organizations: CNN, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science & College of Ocean, Sciences, Xiamen University, Princeton University, NASA's, NASA Goddard Space, NASA’s, Museum of Modern Art Locations: China, France, Saint, Provence, Soviet, Brighton, British, New Jersey, New York

☆ Siemens USA CEO explains how digital twins work to optimize manufacturing
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In a Tuesday interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer, Siemens USA CEO Barbara Humpton detailed how her company's digital twin program lets builders test models virtually before starting production. Based in Germany, Siemens develops hardware and software for several industries like electrical infrastructure and transportation, as well as digital twin technology for manufacturing facilities. Humpton said digital twins produce a "digital representation of any physical object" and incorporate the laws of physics. Humpton highlighted the company's "smart infrastructure" initiative, which she said is Siemens USA's largest and fastest-growing business. Smart infrastructure technology enables widespread electrification and data center creation, she said.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Barbara Humpton, Humpton Organizations: Siemens USA, Siemens, NASA, Las Vegas Locations: Germany, Mars, U.S, New York, Los Angeles, North America, United States

☆ Are trampolines safe for kids? A doctor explains
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Katia Hetter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement in 2012 to strongly recommend against the use of recreational trampolines in kids. Jumpers on the same apparatus increases injury risk, especially for the smallest individuals, according to the AAP. The report also found that injuries from full-size trampolines had a six times higher risk of requiring surgery compared with injuries from mini-size trampolines. Stay close to your child and instruct them not to try dangerous maneuvers like flips. If our kids do go to a home that has trampolines, we try to steer them away from the trampoline.

Persons: pediatricians, Leana Wen, Wen Organizations: CNN, American Academy of Pediatrics, George Washington University, Care, AAP

The Titan submersible plunged thousands of feet down the forbidding depths of the North Atlantic Ocean in search of the Titanic wreck site when it imploded, killing all five on board. OceanGate came under heavy scrutiny as a result of the disaster — an almost unheard-of occurrence in the submersible industry. But after the Titan didn’t return at its scheduled time, the Polar Prince contacted the Coast Guard. The suit remains ongoing, and a former OceanGate engineering director, Tony Nissen, named as a defendant, is expected to appear Monday at the Coast Guard hearing. “The Titan submersible did not just go down with its inventor — it went down with paying passengers.”

Persons: —, Guillermo Söhnlein, Jason Neubauer, OceanGate, “, voyagers, Polar Prince, Paul, Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman, Rush, “ Stockton, I’d, ” Söhnlein, David Lochridge, Lochridge, ” OceanGate, Nargeolet, Tony Nissen, Neubauer, Peter Girguis, there’s, ” Girguis Organizations: Coast Guard, Marine Board, OceanGate, Marine Board of, Department of Justice, Polar, Stockton Rush, Associated Press, Harvard University, Oceanographic Locations: Canada’s, French, North Charleston , South Carolina, Washington, U.S

☆ Cave fossils shed light on the disappearance of Neanderthals
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But other chapters, like those describing the loss of our ancient ancestors, are harder to recover as time passes. A chance finding of bones in a cave is revealing clues of a much older tragic mystery. The once-in-a-lifetime find, nicknamed Thorin after a character in “The Hobbit,” has puzzled researchers for nearly a decade. The overall winner of the competition was photographer Ryan Imperio for his photo taken during the October 2023 annular solar eclipse. The phenomenon is visible for brief moments during an eclipse when sunlight shines through the moon’s valleys and craters, creating glowing drops of light.

Persons: Duke, Wellington, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thorin, Ludovic, ”, Yuha Hasegawa, Ryan Imperio, Imperio, Zhu Yubo, Rapa Nui, Christopher Columbus, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, Japan’s Nagasaki University, “, International, Astronomy, Polaris, —, NASA, CNN Space, Science Locations: Brussels, Grotte Mandrin, Rhône, New Zealand, El, Rapa, USA, Americas

☆ Sam Altman may be in his villain era, but no one seems to care
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As one VC partner told Business Insider at the time: "Sam is bigger than Taylor Swift." But the bigger you are, the faster the fall, and a few months later, things began to unravel. Others simply said Altman was overhyped, that he didn't have all the answers that the public and investors seemed to expect of him. Thanks to good old-fashioned capitalism, Altman and OpenAI have enjoyed business win after win and held their positions as the leaders in the aggressive AI race. "I thought Sam Altman did a really good job in the special," she told The Washington Post in a discussion about her TV program on artificial intelligence.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Taylor Swift, Altman, Oscar, Scarlett Johansson, Johansson, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Leike, Anthropic —, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Siri, Goldman Sachs, OpenAI fanboys, Wharton, Ethan Mollick, Anderson Cooper, Josh Kushner —, Oprah Winfrey Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Business, —, Leike, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, tech's, o1, Washington Locations: OpenAI —, Valley

☆ OpenAI's o1 model is inching closer to human-like intelligence — but don't get carried away
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AGI is a distance awayOpenAI's new o1 models make improvements in the ability of AI models to reason. AdvertisementIn some ways, the o1 models do enter OpenAI into a new paradigm. pic.twitter.com/niqRO9hhg1 — Noam Brown (@polynoamial) September 12, 2024Where previous AI models were bottlenecked by the data fed to them during the "pre-training" phase, Brown wrote, o1 models showed that "we can now scale inference". Related storiesJim Fan, a senior research scientist at Nvidia, noted that the technicalities underlying this are what have helped make this fundamental breakthrough of OpenAI's o1 models possible. Uncertainty hovers over how o1 models will perform more broadly.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Noam Brown, niqRO9hhg1 — Noam Brown, Brown, Jim Fan, Fan, Altman, Will Depue, — Sam Altman, Ethan Mollick, it's Organizations: Service, Business, o1, International, pretraining, Nvidia, OpenAI's o1, Wharton Locations: San Francisco

☆ ChatGPT maker says its new AI model can reason and think ‘much like a person’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Olesya Dmitracova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —OpenAI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that it says can “reason” and solve harder problems in science, coding and math than its predecessors. The model, the first in a series called OpenAI o1, was released Thursday as a preview, with the firm saying it expects regular updates and improvements. “We trained these models to spend more time thinking through problems before they respond, much like a person would,” the maker of ChatGPT said on its website. The new OpenAI model doesn’t yet have many of the features “that make ChatGPT useful,” the firm said, like browsing the web for information, and uploading files and images. In tests, OpenAI o1 performs similarly to PhD students on difficult benchmark tasks in physics, chemistry and biology, according to the company.

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