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The Department of Justice has asked a U.S. appeals court to reject ByteDance and TikTok’s emergency motion that aims to temporarily block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership by January 19.  The Justice Department said the court should not delay the matter, arguing that … Read more

People don’t sing as much as they used to, and Mike Wilson wants to change that. The former Devolver exec has of late been exploring how games can help with wellness, and his latest attempt is a VR app that you can, no joke, sing out loud with when you’re home alone. It’s not quite … Read more

AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that includes in the region of 1 million public-domain books, spanning genres, languages, and authors including Dickens, Dante, and Shakespeare, which are no longer copyright-protected due to their age. The new … Read more

It’s becoming increasingly costly to develop and run AI. OpenAI’s AI operations costs could reach $7 billion this year, while Anthropic’s CEO recently suggested that models costing over $10 billion could arrive soon. So the hunt is on for ways to make AI cheaper. Some researchers are focusing on techniques to optimize existing model architectures — i.e. … Read more

In case you hadn’t noticed, there are a lot of mental health startups out there these days, many of which were prompted to launch following the pandemic and the subsequent widespread focus on mental health. However, they often have scant relationships with clinical trials or healthcare systems. A new venture from the U.K.’s KHP Ventures, … Read more