Quick notes: Cerebras supercomputer | Eye drops...

• Cerebras just built a gargantuan computer system: An A.I. supercomputer whirs to life, powered by giant computer chips. The Condor Galaxy 1 is a 64-node AI supercomputer with 54 million cores and 82Tbytes of data. The roadmap sees the rollout of performance up to 36 exaFLOPS.




• AI, weaponized: As AI porn generators get better, the stakes get higher. Just a few months ago, a 22-year-old was sentenced to six months in jail for taking underage womens' photos from social media and using them to create sexually explicit deepfakes.



• Google’s Nearby Share for Windows: Quickly share files with Android devices



• Indian export: How bacteria-laced eye drops ended up in US stores



• CBSE allows schools to teach in the mother tongue: "Since higher education has started responding to this need (for multilingual education) then school education has to become its foundation. The approach towards medium of instruction should be a continuity from school education to higher education."



• Forget the gym: Yoga is better at boosting memory and concentration than vigorous exercise. . . Yoga practitioners exhibited greater cortical thickness, gray matter (GM) volume, and GM density than non-practitioners in a variety of regions. Among yoga-practitioners, a positive relationship between the years of yoga practice and GM volume was also observed in a number of areas.



• High-meat diets: Having big UK meat-eaters cut some of it out of their diet would be like taking 8 million cars off the road.

Ah. Biodiversity. Whereas India was really good at preserving its mega fauna. Now white people want to trawl the deep ocean for minerals. Yeah, that will end well. https://t.co/VGzKUR29Uh

— Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) July 14, 2023




• Republican primary race survey: Vivek Ramaswamy ties for second with Ron DeSantis



• US lawmakers probe Ford partnership with Chinese battery supplier: U.S. lawmakers to review a licensing deal between Ford Motor and China-based CATL that would produce battery cells at a planned $3.5 billion plant in Michigan.



• Nio ET7: Find out why western auto majors fear the Chinese.