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CHATGPT'S AI `MEMORY' CAN REMEMBER THE PREFERENCES OF PAYING
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OpenAI's Memory feature, which allows ChatGPT to store queries,
prompts, and other customizations, is now available to ChatGPT Plus
paying subscribers outside of Europe and Korea. Memory lets users tell
ChatGPT to remember certain details and allows the chatbot to learn
from conversations. Users have control over what ChatGPT retains and
what is used for additional training. ChatGPT will tell users when
memories are updated. The feature will eventually roll out ChatGPT
Enterprise and Teams, but OpenAI has not specified when.

MUSK WINS CHINA'S BACKING FOR TESLA'S DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SERVICE (6
MINUTE READ) [6]

China's government has signaled its blessing for Tesla to roll out
its advanced driver-assistance service in the country. Tesla will
deploy its Full Self-Driving service based on mapping and navigation
functions provided by Baidu. Being able to roll out FSD in China will
help Tesla compete with major Chinese carmakers, some of which already
provide higher-level driver-assistance features. Chinese officials
have yet to respond to Elon Musk's request to transfer the data that
Tesla cars collect in China to the US to further train the system.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

CHINA READY TO LAUNCH LUNAR FAR SIDE SAMPLE RETURN MISSION (4 MINUTE
READ) [7]

China's Chang'e-6 mission aims to land on the far side of the moon
and collect up to 2,000 grams of lunar material to return to Earth.
The mission will also include international scientific payloads from
France, Sweden, Italy, and Pakistan. The launch time has yet to be
disclosed, but navigation warnings indicate that the launch is
expected early Friday. China plans to send a crewed mission to the
Moon by 2030 and establish a permanent lunar base through the
International Lunar Research Station program in the 2030s.

ATOMIC NUCLEUS EXCITED WITH LASER: A BREAKTHROUGH AFTER DECADES (7
MINUTE READ) [8]

The long-sought thorium transition has been found. This discovery
promises revolutionary technological applications and could answer the
question of whether the constants of nature are actually constant or
whether they change in space and time. It makes it possible to combine classical quantum physics and nuclear physics. The technology can be
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that would be significantly more accurate than the best atomic clocks
available today and devices that analyze the gravitational field
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MISCELLANEOUS

GPT2-CHATBOT (11 MINUTE READ) [13]

gpt2-chatbot recently appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena,
demonstrating greater compatibility than any previously known GPT-2
model. There is little information about the model listed on the site
or elsewhere. This article explores the model and its capabilities.
The model appears to be based on the GPT-4 architecture and
consistently provides different outputs than models from other
companies. It can be more performant than certain other models in
specific domains. It is possible that this mystery model is in fact
GPT-4.5.

GOOGLE LAYS OFF STAFF FROM FLUTTER, DART, AND PYTHON TEAMS WEEKS
BEFORE ITS DEVELOPER CONFERENCE (5 MINUTE READ) [14]

Google has laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart,
Python, and others ahead of its annual I/O developer conference in
May. The company says that the layoffs aim to help it simplify its
structures to give employees more opportunities to work on innovative
and important advances while reducing bureaucracy and layers. Some
employees were asked to onboard their off-shore replacements. Affected employees will be able to apply for other open roles at Google.

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If a judge chooses to deny the Internet Archive's appeal, which is
likely, the site may be faced with more lawsuits and forced to remove
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INSIDE THE `COLD WAR' AT TECHSTARS AS CEO MŽELLE GAVET HIRES,
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Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism mostly just disagree
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