Retail investors have lost an estimated $17 billion in an attempt to gain Bitcoin exposure through digital asset treasury firms such as Metaplanet and Michael Saylor’s Strategy, according to a new research report. These losses came from an overpricing of share premiums that allowed these companies to sell stock for far above the value of their actual crypto holdings. Those …
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3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots? That was the situation for one rather panicked researcher who reached out to us in late September after discovering his name among several singled out in a review article for the “greatest number of published works” …
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Of all the unlikely stories to emerge from the current AI frenzy, few are more striking than that of Leopold Aschenbrenner. The 23-year-old’s career didn’t exactly start auspiciously: He spent time at the philanthropy arm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange before a controversial year at OpenAI, where he was ultimately fired. Then, just two months after being booted …
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A star Chinese artificial intelligence researcher has left Anthropic to join a rival company, citing the American AI start-up’s “anti-China statements” as a key reason for his departure. Yao Shunyu, according to a post on his website on Monday, left Anthropic after less than a year to join Google DeepMind, partly because of his “strong” opposition to the start-up’s characterisation …
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Like with many niche treatments, the purported benefits of leucovorin began spreading in the autism community via word of mouth. For decades, some parents have sworn that folinic acid, a dietary supplement, improved their autistic children’s ability to speak and communicate, and some doctors would prescribe leucovorin, a drug with the same key ingredient. But the drug’s cult status is …
Read More »Dr. Steven Austad, the scientific director of a nonprofit researching healthy aging, never fretted too deeply about his own longevity. “I used to train lions for a living,” Austad told Business Insider. “It was not something that you would do if you were thinking about living a long time.” Prior to his career at the American Federation for Aging Research, …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🚗 Penelope Horlick endured an 11-year legal battle over her Porsche 911. ⚖️ The court awarded her €137,000 in damages for unjust vehicle retention. 📉 The case highlighted the importance of consumer rights and accountability. 🔍 Her perseverance underscores the value of persistence in legal disputes. In 2011, Penelope Horlick, an academic researcher at Oxford University, entrusted …
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A researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier – after the body of another man, a hiker from Arizona, was found earlier this week off a trail near the glacier, authorities said. According to the state department of public safety, Alaska wildlife troopers received a report on Tuesday that a man had gone …
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Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, and Eddy Cue, senior vice president of services at Apple. (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.’s lead artificial intelligence researcher for robotics has departed the company to join Meta Platforms Inc.’s competing effort, part of an exodus of AI talent from the iPhone maker. The employee, Jian Zhang, joined the Meta Robotics Studio, the social media …
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