D&T Issue 198

Open AI’s Sora, Google’s Gemini and The Tesla Killer

Hi there!

It’s issue #198 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here’s what we’ve been reading of late.

AI startup OpenAI has unveiled a text-to-video model, called Sora, which could raise the bar for what’s possible in generative AI. Internet has been abuzz with some stellar videos from past week. Check them out here.

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The leading Chinese electric vehicle company, with origins as a battery maker, has posted two years of million-car growth in sales.

The model delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities.

How learning app Duolingo’s cheeky five-second spot beat the odds in a crowded field.

MIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will travel to one of Jupiter’s largest moons to look for evidence of conditions that could support life.

An accretion disk 7 light-years across powers an exceptionally bright galaxy.

Why are farmers annoyed with the government and whether their demand for a Minimum Support Price is economically viable.

How ‘pace layers’ can help designers understand complex systems.

The Large Hadron Collider hasn’t seen any new particles since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Here’s what researchers are trying to do about it.

And that’s the lot! Thanks for checking out what we had to share with you this week, we shall catch up with you next Wednesday. Incase you aren’t subscribed to the newsletter, you could subscribe here.

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