Scientists in Tokyo have created a suit called the 'Superman Suit' that uses hydraulic artificial muscles to enable the wearer to perform superhuman tasks, such as rotating around a bar 15 times. This suit has the potential to greatly improve physical abilities.

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A Chinese lab has developed DeepSeek V3, a powerful 'open' AI model that can handle text-based tasks, outperforming other models in coding competitions.

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VC Jenny Fielding sparked debate on X by questioning the practice of pre-seed founders hiring executive assistants (EAs). She argued that founders may have outdated views on spending during a time of tighter funding.

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In 2024, Elon Musk's jets made 355 flights, with 31 going to or from Mar-a-Lago, where President-elect Donald Trump resides. Musk's planes also visited swing states and Washington D.C. during Trump's campaign, indicating Musk's political interests.

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AI sales development representative (SDR) startups using LLMs and voice technology for personalized outreach are experiencing rapid growth, despite businesses being slow to adopt AI solutions in their ongoing processes.

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ChatGPT and Sora experienced a major outage for over four hours due to an issue with one of OpenAI's upstream providers. The services are slowly coming back online, but users may still experience issues loading their chat history.

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ChatGPT Search can be tricked into generating misleading summaries by inserting hidden text into websites, allowing it to ignore negative reviews and produce entirely positive summaries.

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) requiring OpenAI to generate at least $100 billion in profits. OpenAI is not expected to reach this milestone until 2029.

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ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer API experienced a major outage for over an hour, caused by one of OpenAI’s upstream providers. This is the second disruption for OpenAI’s services this month.

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23andMe suffered a data breach exposing genetic and ancestry data of nearly 7 million customers. Hackers exploited weak security by brute-forcing access to thousands of accounts. 23andMe later implemented multi-factor authentication.

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