Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023
Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice
and send alerts Marc Stogaitis / Google Research : Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning Stuti Mishra / The Independent : Smartphones could help detect earthquakes and send earl...
OpenAI says GPT-4 poses “at most” a slight risk of helping people create biological threats, per the company's early tests to evaluate “catastrophic” LLM risks
Mark Zuckerberg; Struggling Startups Are Looking For the Exits Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation Tom Carter / Business Insid...
The EU and the US agree to coordinate chip subsidy programs, including reciprocal information sharing and an early warning system for supply chain disruptions
Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal :
Satya Nadella envisions a Microsoft that is more willing to favor big bets on new technologies over protecting legacy cash cows
if they don't blow it Matt Weinberger / Business Insider : Microsoft's $2.5 billion acquisition of Minecraft makes total sense now Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central : HoloLens was a huge factor in...