[[{“value”:” A weekend hackathon project that lets AI agents talk on the phone with each other in a robotic language, one that’s incomprehensible to humans, has gone viral on social media over the past week. The project, called GibberLink, was created by two Meta software engineers during a hackathon competition in London, hosted by ElevenLabs and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
CIA director says US has paused sharing intelligence with Ukraine
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Experts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’
[[{“value”:” Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans. Google pitched it as a way to uncover new knowledge, but experts think it — and tools like it — fall well short of PR promises. “This preliminary tool, while interesting, doesn’t […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
U.K.’s competition authority says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t quality for investigation
[[{“value”:” Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. “Overall, taking into account all of the available evidence […] the CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently controls OpenAI’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Grain emerges from stealth with $50M to help any business hedge against FX volatility
[[{“value”:” Foreign exchange fluctuations can make or break a business that trades across borders, but keeping up and responding to the FX market can be tricky if you’re anything smaller than the world’s largest enterprises. Today, a startup called Grain is emerging from stealth with a product that it says will let finance teams at companies […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg
[[{“value”:” Here’s a blast from the past: Digg, one of the web’s early news aggregators, is now back under the ownership of its original founder Kevin Rose. Notably, he’s being joined as co-owner by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (both pictured above). Digg and Reddit were once fierce rivals in the online social news aggregation space, launching […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Evidence-based medicine: placing scientific evidence and patient values at the centre of healthcare
[[{“value”:” Evidence-based medicine: placing scientific evidence and patient values at the centre of healthcare Published: Deciding between different treatment options can be a stressful and unnerving time for patients. To make such a decision, patients need guidance and well-founded recommendations from their clinicians. Professor Gordon Guyatt, at McMaster University in Canada, has spent his career in the field of evidence-based…
ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia
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Apple is challenging U.K.’s iCloud encryption backdoor order
[[{“value”:” Apple is challenging a U.K. Government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times reports. The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption. Last month, press leaks revealed the existence of the January order asking Apple to build a backdoor in iCloud’s encrypted backups. U.K. officials are exercising […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Darwinbox, the HR upstart from India, raises $140M to take on Deel and Rippling
[[{“value”:” Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks to expand internationally, especially in the U.S. The funding is being co-led by KKR and Partners Group, and is a mix of primary and secondary […] © 2024 TechCrunch….