The Pentagon office investigating UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena, resolved one of its most prominent cases — nicknamed "GOFAST" — its director told Congress in a hearing on Tuesday..

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Niantic has announced that it’s building a new “Large Geospatial Model” (LGM) that combines millions of scans taken from the smartphones of players of Pokémon Go and other Niantic products. This AI model could allow computers and robots to understand and interact with the world in new ways. Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge

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Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data

Niantic has also been catching ‘em all.

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket to space from Texas on Tuesday, advancing the ship's spaceflight abilities but botching an attempt to bring its booster back to land as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump watched from the company's rocket facilities. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-launch-sixth-starship-test-texas-with-trump-attending-2024-11-19/

Promise, backed by former News Corp President Peter Chernin and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, will produce films and series using generative AI tools, the company said on Tuesday. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/andreessen-horowitz-backed-studio-promise-start-producing-movies-series-using-ai-2024-11-19/

A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart or smarter than humans, amid intensifying competition with China over advanced technologies. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-government-commission-pushes-manhattan-project-style-ai-initiative-2024-11-19/

Microsoft has released the first release candidate of PowerShell 7.5 for download. Interestingly, despite not being a general availability release, Microsoft considers it a "go-live" release which means that it's a supported release in production.

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Microsoft releases PowerShell 7.5 RC1, GA due in January

Microsoft has released PowerShell 7.5 RC1 in anticipation of the general availability due in January 2025.

The U.S. will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant, according to a media report Monday. https://japantoday.com/category/tech/us-to-call-for-google-to-sell-chrome-browser-report

Asian stocks rose on Tuesday while U.S. bond yields and the dollar hung back from multi-month highs as traders awaited President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet selection and sought to gauge the outlook for Federal Reserve easing https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-wrapup-1-2024-11-19/

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned at the Group of 20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro that artificial intelligence should not be a "game of rich countries and the wealthy," state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday. https://www.reuters.com/world/chinas-xi-tells-g20-summit-ai-should-not-be-game-rich-countries-xinhua-reports-2024-11-18/

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined a growing list of former tech leaders taking roles in San Francisco's government following this month's election. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/san-francisco-mayor-elect-taps-openai-ceo-sam-altman-transition-team-2024-11-18/

SpaceX launched what has been a top secret mission just before dusk on Sunday. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:28 EST. SpaceX called the mission "TD7," even though regulatory filings and U.S. government agency and regulatory findings, including the Space Force and the Federal Aviation Administration, call the payload "Optus-X." Source:

SpaceX launches secret 'Optus-X' payload atop Falcon 9 rocket - UPI.com

SpaceX launched what has been a top secret mission just before dusk on Sunday, not releasing the contents of its payload and changing its original ...

President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles inside Russia, something Biden had specifically prohibited until now, two U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News on Sunday. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-ukraine-longer-range-us-missiles-russia-sources/story?id=115947663502175059b29042e589fb93c

AMD dominates chip sales on Amazon — top ten best selling CPUs all come from Team Red, Intel’s highest entry sits at 11th place.

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AMD dominates chip sales on Amazon — top ten best selling CPUs all come from Team Red, Intel’s highest entry sits at 11th place

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Musk's concerns over Google DeepMind 'AI Dictatorship' revealed in emails from 2016 — According to the Transformer, an email from Musk in 2016 said, “Deepmind [sic] is causing me extreme mental stress. If they win, it will be really bad news with their one mind to rule the world philosophy.” He further aired concerns that “Demis [Hassabis] could create an AGI dictatorship.” Source:

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As efficient as electronic data storage systems can be, they've got nothing on nature's own version – DNA. A new technique for writing data to DNA works like a printing press and makes it easy enough that anyone could do it. (alanphillips/Getty Images)

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A New DNA-Printing Technique Could Revolutionize How We Store Data

As efficient as electronic data storage systems can be, they've got nothing on nature's own version – DNA.

NASA is partnering with Microsoft to develop an AI-powered chatbot geared toward making it much easier to sift through the enormous amounts of data collected by the space agency's Earth-observing satellites. Source: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/nasa-leverages-ai-to-make-climate-data-searchable-for-everyone/nostr:#ftag=CAD590a51e502175059b29042e589fb93c

ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday college football show SEC Nation. Dubbed FACTS, it’s going to be “...promoting education and fun around sports analytics” with information drawn from ESPN Analytics.

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ESPN is testing a generative AI avatar called ‘FACTS’

Would this AI bot Stump the Schwab?

Musicians could soon be able to remix the songs that they upload to YouTube thanks to an experimental AI tool currently rolling out to select content creators. The new tool is built atop YouTube’s Dream Track, which was released last year and enables users to compose songs based on text prompts and by using prerecorded vocals. Source:

Digital Trends

YouTube’s new AI music remixer could let you swap genres

Select users are currently testing an experimental AI tool that will remix their uploaded music based on their text prompts.

Apple has deleted one of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Russian-language news apps from the Russian App Store at the request of state communications regulator Roskomnadzor, the news outlet said on Friday. Reported: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-deletes-us-funded-rferl-news-app-russian-app-store-news-outlet-says-2024-11-15/

Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing to launch a tender offer in December to sell existing shares at a price of $135 per share, two sources familiar with the matter said. The tender offer would value SpaceX at more than $250 billion, according to the sources. Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-preparing-launch-tender-offer-dec-135share-ft-reports-2024-11-15/