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A study in Wales reveals that older adults vaccinated with the shingles shot Zostavax were 20% less likely to develop dementia, particularly women. This finding supports previous research suggesting shingles vaccines could reduce dementia risk by reducing inflammation or boosting the immune system.
OpenAI's $40 billion funding round at a $300 billion valuation is unprecedented, marking it as a unique entity in both growth and ambition. Despite immense revenue and user growth, the company anticipates significant losses, necessitating more investment to achieve its AI goals.
Spotify announced gen AI ads and the Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX) at an event in New York, allowing real-time ad auctions to reach users. Partnerships and AI-generated audio ads aim to target over 251 million Gen Z users across multiple countries.
A new paper by the AI Disclosures Project claims OpenAI's GPT-4o model may have been trained on copyrighted, paywalled books from O'Reilly Media without permission. This raises concerns about the companyโ€™s data practices and adherence to copyright laws.
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Repository: flutter (Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single codebase.)
Why: Addresses a specific, straightforward problem with clear reproduction steps.
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Fold Craft Launcher, an Android Minecraft : Java Edition launcher.
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AWS MCP Servers
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A composable and fully extensible C++ execution engine library for data management systems.
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