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Meta has hired highly influential Openai researcher Trapit Bansal to work on AI inference models under the company’s new AI Superintelligence unit. Openai spokesman Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal has left Openai. According to Bansal’s LinkedIn page, he said he left Openai in June. Bansal has been working at Openai since 2022 and, together with co-founder Ilya Sutskever, was a key player kickstarting the company’s work on reinforcement learning. He is listed as a fundamental contributor to Openai’s first AI inference model, O1. Bansal can offer a big lift for Meta’s AI Superintelligence Lab, featuring leaders such as…
Google’s AI search capabilities are killing traffic to publishers, so the company is currently proposing possible solutions. On Thursday, Tech Giant officially launched its official tool. This is a new tool that allows publishers to generate revenue beyond traffic-dependent options such as advertising. Offerwall allows publishers to provide site readers with a variety of ways to access content, including options such as micropayments, research acquisition, and advertising. Additionally, Google says publishers can add their own options to their offerwalls, such as signing up for newsletters. This new feature is available free of charge on Google Ad Manager after more than…
In the conversation article, Alex Schwartz and Kirk McClure outline the potential benefits of universal rental assistance, arguing that high housing costs are not always associated with housing supply. According to the author, “Even a large injection of new homes is likely to result in rents for many households not reaching them, so they will not reduce housing costs sufficient to resolve the crisis.” For the author, the most effective solution is to expand housing subsidies. “Low-income renters can’t afford a home in particular. 81% of tenants earned less than $30,000, spending more than 30% of their income on housing,…
Researchers finally answered long-standing questions about giant patches of cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, denounced changes in ocean currents due to unexpected cooling.The anomaly located just south of Greenland, perhaps intuitively called the North Atlantic warming hole, has been annoying scientists for years. Despite stable warming of seawater around the world, this one region has been colder to Fahrenheit (0.3°C 0.3°C) over the past century.By analyzing sea temperatures and salinity patterns, scientists linked this mystical cooling to a slowing down of a system of ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridian Coverage Circulation (AMOC). You might like it The changing…
Archaeologists have discovered ruins and ritual buildings of the multi-star house associated with the goddess Wadget, headed in the cobra in the city of IMET in ancient Egypt.The dense architecture shows that Imet was a bustling urban center in the late Egyptian period (664-332 BC) or the last period of Egyptian rule before Alexander the Great and his general Ptolemy I-star.”IMET has emerged as an important site for rethinking late Egyptian archaeology,” said Nikki Nielsen, a senior lecturer at Egyptian studies at the University of Manchester in the UK, who directed the excavation. You might like it Newly discovered multi-intermediate…
CBRE data shows that US office stocks have been dropped as some buildings have been converted to residential or other uses and others have been demolished. Joe Burns explains the trends in smart city dives. “Of the 58 markets tracked by CBRE, 12.8 million square feet of space is expected to be converted to other uses this year. Office conversions in the pipeline this year reached 1.9% of all office inventory, and since 2020 the number of conversion proposals has increased each year. Older buildings that are not suitable for conversions account for more than half of demolition and 35%…
According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, Jeff Bezos apparently is trying to capitalize on the recent explosion between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. According to reports, Bezos spoke with Trump twice this month. Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp also visited the White House to meet up with Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Bezos even reported that he invited Trump to his upcoming wedding in Venice, Italy. The interaction with the White House comes after Musk and Trump spent days throwing mud at each other on social media. The founder of SpaceX claimed that the…
Over the next few months, there will be several opportunities to see the huge “hole” shooting across Saturn’s surface as its biggest moon shadow passes through the Earth-facing surface of its squealing planet. The rare sight will not be seen again until 2040. And we’ll explain to you how to see it from your backyard.Every 15 years, Saturn and Earth are perfectly aligned, with the circle of gas giants turning head-on to our planet. In March, the alignment was so perfect that the planet’s Super Smon ring completely disappeared, reported previously by Live Science’s sister site Space.com. Opposition arises in…
Too much attention is paid to how people rely on AI chatbots for emotional support, and sometimes even establishing relationships, and often come to think of such behavior as common. A new report by mankind that creates the popular AI chatbot Claude reveals a different reality. In fact, people rarely go to the bot for dating from Claude and for emotional support and personal advice. “The combination of dating and role-play consists of less than 0.5% of conversation,” the company emphasized in its report. Humanity says the study sought to unearth insights into the use of AI for “emotional conversation.”…
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features that help users find content and information more easily, the company announced Thursday. The platform launches Carousel with AI-powered search results similar to Google’s AI overview, testing conversational AI with more users. New AI-powered search results available only to premium US YouTube users Carousel, offers videos suggestions and displays simple AI-generated topic descriptions to help users find what they’re looking for faster. According to YouTube, Carousel AI-powered search results will appear in searches related to shopping, locations, or doing things in a particular location. For example, if you search for something like “the…