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🦑 Human cells hacked to act like squid skin cells could unlock key to camouflage

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have found a way to replicate the properties of squid skin cells in mammalian cells, which could unlock the key to camouflage and other unique abilities.

💰 Mastodon helps TX Observer journalists raise $270k in bid to save publication

The staff of the liberal magazine Texas Observer has raised over $270,000 through a GoFundMe campaign to prevent the closure of the publication, after the board voted to cease production; the funds will either cover the payroll and costs to keep the publication open, or go directly to staff members, depending on whether the board allows them to remain open.

🤥 Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court

Google has been found guilty of intentionally destroying evidence and repeatedly giving false information to court in a case involving Epic Games, with the judge ruling that sanctions are warranted and chastising Google for its conduct.

👀 Google Assistant might be doomed: Division “reorganizes” to focus on Bard

Google is reportedly "reshuffling" its Assistant division to prioritize Bard, potentially signaling doom for the virtual assistant, which has not released any hardware in two years and has shutdown several features.

👋 After deepfakes go viral, AI image generator Midjourney stops free trials

AI image generator Midjourney has stopped its free trials due to an influx of new users, according to CEO David Holz, who stated that the pause is “because of massive amounts of people making throwaway accounts to get free images."

🕹 My quest to re-create Street Fighter’s long-lost pneumatic controls

Capcom's long-lost pneumatic controls for the original Street Fighter game, which allowed players to land harder hits by slamming their fists on huge "bash pads", may have been too hyped up as the game failed to deliver long-term fun, leading to its eventual recall and replacement with the now-familiar six-button control scheme.

🤖 The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s not artificial or intelligent.

The term "Artificial Intelligence" should be retired from public debate because it is neither artificial nor intelligent, and the term risks convincing us that the world runs on a singular logic of highly cognitive, cold-blooded rationalism, according to commentator Evgeny Morozov.

👨 Amazon sues sellers for issuing bogus takedown requests on competitors

Amazon files lawsuits against sellers for issuing bogus takedown requests on competitors, claiming they scraped images from other listings and put them on 'dummy' websites to try and prove they owned the copyright.

💰 Companies Are Paying Bonkers Salaries for People Good at ChatGPT

Companies are offering six-figure salaries for "prompt engineers," who are experts in wringing results out of next-gen AI chatbots like ChatGPT, and can train others to use it more effectively regardless of educational background.

🤖 BuzzFeed is quietly publishing whole AI-generated articles, not just quizzes

BuzzFeed has quietly started publishing fully AI-generated articles, which are reproduced by non-editorial staff and read similarly to the content mill model that CEO Jonah Peretti promised to avoid.

👋 Jacob Devlin (BERT) resignes from Google to join OpenAI after warnings

Google denies using OpenAI's ChatGPT data to train its chatbot Bard, despite allegations from a former Google AI researcher published in a report by The Information, but the company is reportedly interested in improving the fortunes of its AI chatbots and is forcing its DeepMind division to help the Google Brain team beat OpenAI with a new initiative called Gemini.

🚫 FTC should stop OpenAI from launching new GPT models, says AI policy group

The Center for AI and Digital Policy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, urging them to halt OpenAI's launch of their new GPT-4 models as it violates FTC's rules against unfair and deceptive practices, pointing out potential threats of malicious code and privacy failures, and seeking stricter government oversight and independent assessments of the models before future rollouts.

💬 Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads

Microsoft's Bing chatbot will start showing more ads, though the exact format is not yet finalized.

🌱 Plants emit ultrasonic sounds in rapid bursts when stressed, scientists say

Scientists have recorded ultrasonic popping sounds from thirst or damaged plants emitting up to 50 staccato pops an hour, suggesting that the plant kingdom isn’t as silent as it seems, and opening the possibility that such sounds could be interpreted by other organisms to shape ecosystems or influence the behaviour of animals such as moths and mice. The sounds, which are emitted in rapid bursts, were found to be emitted more frequently when the plants were deprived of water or had their stems cut, and could potentially be detected at a distance of three to five metres.

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