Dolly 2.0 could spark a new wave of fully open source LLMs similar to ChatGPT.
Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming.
There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them to help us treat diseases. Scientists have altered the genomes of some of these bacteria that live on skin, essentially engineering microbes that can prevent or treat cancer. It appears to work […]
Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel — “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne.
Workful payroll and HR review
The Workful package includes tools for payroll plus expenses and HR management.
Elon Musk reportedly purchases thousands of GPUs for generative AI project at Twitter
Reports say it’s a commitment to AI, despite signing cautionary AI “pause” letter.
EVs just got a big boost. We’re going to need a lot more chargers.
The US government is pushing for a massive wave of electric vehicles to hit the roads in the next few years, but the country doesn’t have nearly enough chargers installed to power them all. The Environmental Protection Agency released proposed standards today that set limits for companies on total carbon […]
Italy outlines compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT suspension order, requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing, adopt age gating, and more (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:Italy outlines compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT suspension order, requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing, adopt age gating, and more — Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the […]
Acer Chromebook 514 (2022) review
If you need just enough to make Chrome OS fly, to work all day, and to keep a machine running for some time, the Acer Chromebook 514 (2022) has it – but not much more
Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI
“Wolverine” experiment can fix Python bugs on the fly and re-run the code.
The Download: heat-storing bricks, and using AI to understand history
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The hottest new climate technology is bricks Heavy industries generate about a quarter of worldwide emissions, and alternative power sources can’t consistently generate the amount of heat that […]