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Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected

CDC is working to move the infected American and six others to Germany.

Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

Fake citations dashed a dude’s “Are We Dating the Same Guy” revenge lawsuit.

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

"I think there's plenty of fire lit under them already."

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.

Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades

For some ancient Aboriginal Australian communities, dingoes were part of the family.

Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.

Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

Musk plans to appeal after judge immediately affirmed the jury's decision.

Pompeii victim ID'd as a likely doctor

New X-rays and CT scans showed small case with locking mechanism containing metal instruments.

Guy Gardner makes a cameo in new Lanterns teaser

"This ring? It's the greatest weapon in the Universe. When and if to use it, that's the whole ball game."

What to expect from Google this week

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, a...

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.

The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest

Dory CEO claims the $149 signs won't be bricked should Dory go out of business.

Six Choices Every AI Engineer Has to Make (and Nobody Teaches)

The production trade-offs that only appear once your model is live. The post Six Choices Every AI Engineer Has to Make (and Nobody Teaches) appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)

Microsoft is also testing a smaller taskbar and more customizable Start menu.

Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare

The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. Quay Barnett, who leads the efforts as a vice president at Anduril following ...

Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for Robot Video Generation

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

One Flexible Tool Beats a Hundred Dedicated Ones

Why MCP servers keep losing to CLIs once the agent gets a terminal The post One Flexible Tool Beats a Hundred Dedicated Ones appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.