Friday the 13th today. Very gloomy.
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Google announced Gemini for Healthcare recently. Giving Google access to healthcare data makes me very uneasy.
Downtown Portland hits record vacancy; report ties 8,000-worker loss to decline. The comments say it all.
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AI helps unlock discoveries hidden in notebooks of mathematician/logician Kurt Gödel. Now, this exemplified the power of AI. Without it, I doubt we'd be able to discode this:
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Google was sued by big online publishers who said adding AI overview to search negatively affected their business. The publishers sued under antitrust laws, and their argument hinged on convincing the court that AI Overviews was a separate product from Google Search.
"The judge decided that Search and AI are an integrated product," Pizzo said, and subsequently dismissed the cases. "Now if Google were to provide an off switch for schools only … that's evidence that they can be separated. And that undermines the win they just had in court."
I don't understand: they've had search without AI before. Why are they inseparable now? Who was that judge, man?
Weight space misfolding. A new term to misalignment in MIT's weight-space programming. Someone linked to this paper stating that one can transmit viruses this way, but I don't see anything that goes that far. You can edit out safety guardrails and poison open-weight models, but that's all I think that is possible now. Hiding viruses (or prions as they call it) would require more sophisticated targeting, and I'm not seeing that yet.
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Blocking Granzyme K protein may protect organs from age-related damage. The journal Nature states it differently. Finding an enzyme that targets this enzyme might slow aging without impacting the ability to generate an immune response when needed. So that we don't need drugs like sirolimus to slow aging. Right now, some people track levels of IL-6 and C-reactive protein as markers of chronic inflammation. Perhaps it will be possible to slow organ aging, despite elevated markers of inflammation.
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People are asking: Can you still trust Proton? As I've said before, using AI to help with coding can be a big plus, especially if you have it review security and privacy. You still have to know what is going on under the hood, and demand a step-by-step from the coding assistant. If Proton can assure users of this, then sure, it can still be trustworthy.
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Microsoft scrambles to fix major outage affecting millions worldwide. It wasn't completely fixed by earlier this morning. What I find interesting is that Microsoft has been kinda coy about why it took so long to fix the problem. Someone tweeted out that the engineers were overwhelmed with a barrage of authentication requests. That would be so ironic if that were the case.
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Can nVIDIA's new CEO, Collette Kress, fill Jensen's leather jacket? There's little info about her, and this is the best I've come across so far. Until they find a new permanent CEO. Or unless they allow Jensen to come back, which is not entirely out of the question. I'm sure nVIDIA stock will shoot back up if that happens.
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Waves that clear waste from the brain during sleep are impaired in older adults. Turns out that as you get older, it's hard to cleanse your CSF. Gotta exercise more, I guess.
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