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This month, OpenAI announced a newgenerative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. How does Sora work? Sora combines features of text and image generating tools in what is called a diffusion transformer model. 40% off TNW Conference! They are best known for their use in large language models such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Diffusion models, on the other hand, are the foundation of many AI image generators....

I completely understand that the audience of this blog is very niche. I don’t even know why I care this much. It’s downright stupid how many articles I’ve read on this shit. If you haven’t seen Dead Reckoning yet then I don’t know know what you’re doing here. Get out now and go watch it. Spoilers ahead(this movie came out last summer so this is silly) . She seemingly dies right there as Ethan arrives too late to rescue her....

I would like to start fielding my own questions. I really hate posing the question as, “What would you like advice from John Rich on?” But idk how else to word it. And in reality, that’s exactly what I’m asking people to do. If you want some bad advice from the all-knowing John Rich of Barstool Sports, then let it rip. They can be literally anything. I’ll answer any questions that aren’t going to get me fired....

In 2011,ESAdecided to initiate the satellites deorbiting process amid concerns over the increasing amount of space junk. That process came to an end last week. ERS-2 arrived back to Earth about six hours later than ESA had predicted. This may have caused the satellite to interact with the atmosphere in unexpected ways. ERS-2 re-enteredover the North Pacific Oceanand broke into pieces with no damage to property reported. Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW....

And more importantly, why haven’t I ever heard anything about this party?! I wonder if thathelpedorhurttheir perception of ‘The Phantom Menace’ tho…. I feel like it depends on the person. Anyway - I want to see a’Greatest Night In Pop' documentaryabout this party one day. I think there’s gotta be some stories to be told, and I want to hear em. Now just enjoy the rest of the party pictures from the kind folks at Getty Images…....

It made me remember how much I missed my dog Wakefield who we put down a month ago. I’ve been meaning to write this blog since then but honestly didn’t have the strength. I’m tearing up just writing this. He was a really great dog. I found Wake on Petfinder. He was a puppy rescued from an Amish puppy mill (Damn you Jeff Nadu!) and was only 8 weeks old....

Don McClean has always had to share American Pie. But these days, McCleans leading imitators arent even human. you’re able to interrogate the culprits for yourself. Invariably, the tools output will spit out lyrics or themes from American Pie and sometimes the same chorus. Its further evidence that ChatGPT cant createanythingtruly original. Instead, the system is closer to a remix algorithm. The real creativity is in its training data, which is scraped from the web without consent....

According to Europol, the task force infiltrated the gangs primary platform and critical infrastructure. Members of LockBit were also arrested and charged. Britains National Crime Agency said the sting had compromised their entire criminal enterprise. But less than a week later, LockBit has reemerged on the Dark Web. 40% off TNW Conference! They also said the bust was triggered by therecent theft of datafrom government systems in Fulton County, Georgia....

One thing you’ve got the option to say for PHP is that its persistent. Where developers have run up against limitations of PHP, they have successfully found workarounds. Facebooks development team created their own dialect of PHP to soothe the growing pains and work at scale. 40% off TNW Conference! However, being an old, accessible language can have its disadvantages too. You would also want to learn to work with its supporting frameworks, such as Laravel and Symfony....

T gates are essential in implementing aquantum circuit a web link of gates that manipulates qubits to generate algorithms. However, T gates are also the most expensive and most resource-intensive gates of the online grid. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. AlphaTensor-Quantum is anAImodel that leverages the relationship between optimising T-count and tensor decomposition, using deep reinforcement learning. This way, the AI can significantly reduce the number of T gates....

The power of social media to influence voting is welldocumented. 40% off TNW Conference! What is Meta doing? The company said it could even impose penalties for noncompliance, although did not specify what this would entail. The firms arentcommitting to ban or remove deepfakes. The power of AI to disrupt elections has already come under the spotlight. In November, arecordingof the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan circulated on social media....

Much like its predecessor, Mistral Large is an open-source generativeAImodel. According to the startup, it boasts top-tier reasoning capabilities and is proficient in code and mathematics. The partnership makes the startup the second company to launch commercial language models on Azure right after OpenAIs ChatGPT. 40% off TNW Conference! Meanwhile, Mistral is also launching a multilingual conversational assistant. Today, Le Chat enters beta access for early customers and will soon be available for enterprise users....

It’s an oft-used unit for adding chronological context. Now it’s our turn. The top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking were as follows: 1. Nick Watney Rory, DJ and J-Day are still kickin' at the top level of professional golf. But the other 8? Donald’s the Ryder Cup captain. Westwood is north of 50 and not playing great golf on the LIV tour. Martin Kaymer’s not heard from much these days....