A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence "dictatorship" is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker's ongoing shift into a for-profit company. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year alleging it had betrayed its founding aims as a nonprofit research lab benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. Musk has since escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. The world's richest man, whose companies include Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X, last year started his own rival AI company, xAI. Musk says it faces unfair competition from OpenAI and its close business partner Microsoft, which has supplied the huge computing resources needed to build AI systems such as ChatGPT. “OpenAI and Microsoft together exploiting Musk’s donations so they can build a for-profit monopoly, one now specifically targeting xAI, is just too much,” says Musk's filing that alleges the companies are violating the terms of Musk’s foundational contributions to the charity. OpenAI is filing a response Friday opposing Musk’s requested order, saying it would cripple OpenAI’s business and mission to the advantage of Musk and his own AI company. A hearing is set for January before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland. At the heart of the dispute is a 2017 internal power struggle at the fledgling startup that led to Altman becoming OpenAI's CEO. Musk also wanted the job, according to emails revealed as part of the court case, but grew frustrated after two other OpenAI co-founders said he would hold too much power as a major shareholder and chief executive if the startup succeeded in its goal to achieve better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence , or AGI. Musk has long voiced concerns about how advanced forms of AI could threaten humanity. “The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI," said a 2017 email to Musk from co-founders Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman. “You stated that you don't want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you've shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you.” In the same email, titled “Honest Thoughts,” Sutskever and Brockman also voiced concerns about Altman's desire to be CEO and whether he was motivated by “political goals.” Altman eventually succeeded in becoming CEO, and has remained so except for a period last year when he was fired and then reinstated days later after the board that ousted him was replaced. OpenAI published the messages Friday in a blog post meant to show its side of the story, particularly Musk's early support for the idea of making OpenAI a for-profit business so it could raise money for the hardware and computer power that AI needs. It was Musk, through his wealth manager Jared Birchall, who first registered “Open Artificial Technologies Technologies, Inc.”, a public benefit corporation, in September 2017. Then came the “Honest Thoughts” email that Musk described as the “final straw.” “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Musk wrote back. OpenAI said Musk later proposed merging the startup into Tesla before resigning as the co-chair of OpenAI's board in early 2018. Musk didn't immediately respond to emailed requests for comment sent to his companies Friday. 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TORONTO — When Geoffrey Hinton strode across the Stockholm Concert Hall stage Tuesday to receive his Nobel Prize for physics from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, he was beaming. It has taken decades for many beyond the science community to realize the British Canadian computer scientist's life's work was so significant it eventually formed the foundation of artificial intelligence. But on Tuesday, as he accepted the Nobel diploma and its accompanying gold medal with co-laureate John Hopfield, there was no question about the importance of Hinton's discoveries nor how he has shaped history. Instead, there was only pride for the affable 77-year-old, often called the godfather of AI — and that pride stretched from Stockholm to Toronto. A crowd of about 100 students and colleagues at the University of Toronto, where Hinton is a professor emeritus, gathered at the school's downtown campus to watch the Nobel ceremony. Two other watch parties took over the school's Mississauga and Scarborough campuses. Any mention of physics or a sighting of Hinton, clad in a dark suit and white bow tie, generated rousing applause at the Toronto gathering. When the man of the hour headed to retrieve his accolade from the King, a few former students and colleagues wiped tears from their eyes. "There is, at least for me, this sense that Prof. Hinton created the whole ecosystem here, where there are thousands of people who are working on his ideas," Michael Guerzhoy, one of Hinton's former students who went on to teach a course Hinton had once led at the university, said before the ceremony began. The idea that earned Hinton the Nobel dates back to the 1980s, when he was working at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and AI was far from the buzzy technology it is today. It was then that Hinton developed the Boltzmann machine, which learns from examples, rather than instructions, and when trained, can recognize familiar characteristics in information, even if it has not seen that data before. "It was a lot of fun doing the research but it was slightly annoying that many people — in fact, most people in the field of AI — said that neural networks would never work," Hinton recalled during a press conference on the October day he was named as a Nobel laureate. "They were very confident that these things were just a waste of time and we would never be able to learn complicated things like, for example, understanding natural language using neural networks — and they were wrong." Neural networks are computational models that resemble the human brain's structure and functions. When Nobel physics committee chair Ellen Moons presented Hinton to receive his award, she said these networks are good at sorting and interpreting large amounts of data and self-improve based on the accuracy of the results they generate. "Today, artificial neural networks are powerful tools in research fields spanning physics, chemistry and medicine, as well as in daily life," she said. John DiMarco wasn't surprised that Hinton's work paved the way for such possibilities, but the IT director for U of T's computer science department was taken aback that Hinton's Nobel came in the unlikely physics category. DiMarco met Hinton roughly 35 years ago in a job interview and quickly took note of his proclivity for humour and the quirks in how his mind works. "He is quite insightful and he goes straight to the core of things," DiMarco said. "He would sometimes come out of his office and share some new idea. We didn't always understand what he was sharing, but he was very excited about it." Many of those ideas required lots of computing power the school's systems didn't have, so DiMarco's team patched together a solution with graphics processing units from video game consoles. DiMarco brought one of Hinton's GPUs to the watch party, which was also attended by Joseph Jay Williams, the director of U of T's Intelligent Adaptive Interventions Lab. Williams took one of Hinton's classes and said the Nobel winner "changed the course of my life" by encouraging him to go to grad school, which then led him to win the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge, a global competition aimed at rewarding people who modernize learning tools and processes. Other notable mentees and alumni of Hinton's classes include OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Cohere co-founders Nick Frosst and Aidan Gomez. With his Nobel win and so many esteemed protege, Williams said Hinton has become a "reluctant celebrity" who is hounded for photos every time he's on campus. Hinton, however, has taken a much more humble approach to his recent win, which he learned of on a trip to California. He initially thought the call from the academy that gives out the Nobel was "a spoof," but later realized it had to be real because it was placed from Sweden and the speaker had a "strong Swedish accent." The award the academy gave him comes with 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1.4 million) from a bequest arranged by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Hinton and Hopfield will split the money, with some of Hinton's share going to Water First, an Ontario organization working to boost Indigenous access to water, and another unnamed charity supporting neurodiverse young adults. Hinton has said he doesn't plan to do much more "frontier research." "I believe I'm going to spend my time advocating for people to work on safety," he said in October. Last year, Hinton left a role he held at Google to more freely speak about the dangers of AI, which he has said include bias and discrimination, fake news, joblessness, lethal autonomous weapons and even the end of humanity. At a Stockholm press conference over the weekend, he said he doesn’t regret the work he did to lay the foundations of artificial intelligence, but wishes he thought of safety sooner. “In the same circumstances, I would do the same again,” he said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 10, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press

Scientists grow human brains in space for first time and they could help cure world's top killer disease READ MORE: Zapping the brain with ultrasound might cure addiction By ELLYN LAPOINTE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 14:13 EST, 22 November 2024 | Updated: 14:36 EST, 22 November 2024 e-mail 18 shares 7 View comments Scientists have grown tiny human brains in space to research new treatments for Alzheimer's , Parkinson's and spinal injuries. The low gravity environment on the International Space Station (ISS) enabled researchers to grow brain organoids in just 72 hours. This process can take months on Earth. The organoids, which are artificially-grown masses of cells that mimic the structure and function of a human organ, allowed researchers to test a new method for curing currently untreatable neurological diseases . The promising new treatment, developed by biotechnology company Axonis Therapeutics, uses a reprogrammed virus to deliver beneficial gene therapy to central nervous system cells (CNS). Such modified viruses are called viral vectors, and they could be particularly useful for treating Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and spinal cord injuries. Nearly 600,000 Americans are diagnosed with either Alzheimer's or Parkinson's each year, and roughly 18,000 new spinal cord injuries occur in the US annually. Testing revealed that the company's treatment worked in mice. But gene therapies that are effective in rodent models often fail in humans. Axionis Therapeutics needed to perform tests using an accurate model of the human central nervous system, which is what prompted them to try and grow human brain organoids in space. Scientists on the International Space Station (ISS) have grown brain-like organoids in space to research new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and spinal injuries Scientists can grow CNS cells on Earth, but gravity forces them to arrange themselves into two-dimensional single layers, which makes it difficult to culture the three-dimensional structure and complexity of brain cell functional groups. These space-grown organoids quickly provided a highly accurate model of the human brain, allowing the ISS researchers to truly test the effectiveness of the new viral vector treatment. 'Doing research in space is not something you'd ever think about normally,' said Shane Hegarty, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Axonis Therapeutics. 'But the opportunity to leverage microgravity conditions can unlock a lot of untouched potential by pushing the boundaries of science in a unique environment,' he added in a statement . In August 2023, Axonis Therapeutics launched frozen vials of their viral vector, mature neurons and astrocytes - or cells that hold nerve cells in place and help them develop - toward the ISS aboard a cargo resupply mission. A crew of researchers on the floating laboratory then injected these materials into a machine called BioCell, which is a specialized cell-culturing system. They loaded the viral vector with a fluorescent protein gene. If it successfully infiltrated the neurons and implanted the gene inside them, they would glow neon green. Within just 72 hours, the cells had not only organized themselves into three-dimensional human brain organoids, but were also glowing. NASA astronaut Mike Barratt processes brain organoid samples aboard the ISS for a different research project conducted this year ISS researchers used a specialized cell-culturing system called BioCell to grow the brain organelles and test the effectiveness of the viral vector 'The pivotal day was when the crew was doing the microscopy, and we saw big aggregates of green, glowing 3D tissue,' said researcher Sheila Nielsen of BioServe Space Technologies, the research organization that created BioCell. 'Shane and I were sending images of the organoids back and forth to each other, and we were pretty ecstatic because this is not something they had ever seen on the ground,' she added in the statement. Read More Exposure to city lights could increase the risk of Alzheimer's, study finds Viruses are very efficient at infecting cells and inserting genetic material into them. This is how they sicken their hosts - the inserted genetic material damages cells and allows the virus to reproduce, eliciting an immune response. But scientists can reprogram viruses to carry beneficial gene therapies to cells, providing a targeted treatment for disease or injury. This study demonstrated that Axonis Therapeutics' viral vector would be able to deliver gene therapy to human neurons. 'It was very exciting - we were able to both validate the gene therapy targeting ability and show that we indeed rapidly formed 3D assembloid models of the human brain,' Hegarty said. 'The major breakthrough is that you can self-assemble mature neurons and astrocytes rapidly into a model of the brain in microgravity conditions, which you can't do on the ground.' Share or comment on this article: Scientists grow human brains in space for first time and they could help cure world's top killer disease e-mail 18 shares Add commentAP Trending SummaryBrief at 5:46 p.m. EST

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Fly with confidenceBy Jim Rossman, Tribune News Service (TNS) Everyone seems to be listening to something. I’m not sure what they’re listening to, because they all seem to be wearing headphones. I suppose they’re all listening to their favorite podcast or just their playlists. Here are a few gift suggestions for headphones that’ll make anything sound better. I’ve listed the retail pricing, but don’t be surprised if you find them on sale. We’ve all tried traditional earbuds. They can sound good if the fit is correct. The SoundCore AreoFit 2 ($99.99, soundcore.com) don’t fit inside your ear canal. Instead, they sit on the outside of your ear. The battery sits behind your ear, much like a hearing aid. The speaker is attached by a sturdy, yet flexible cable. The only adjustment is on the speaker end – it clicks to adjust the angle of the speaker to sit directly over your ear canal. The fact that they don’t insert into your ears means you can still hear the outside world, so you are not so isolated. These are great for jogging or biking. The sound is really nice. The full range of sound comes in very clearly and the form factor is comfortable to wear, even for hours at a time. There are four microphones, so your voice sounds clear on phone calls. They have an IP55 rating, so they can withstand water spashing, sweat or dust. They can also connect to more than one device, so you can keep them paired to your phone and laptop and switch easily between them. The AeroFit 2 can play for 10 hours on a charge. They live in a battery case that can keep them charged for more than 40 hours. The charging case can power up via a USB-C port or a Qi wireless charger. They are available in white, blue, green or black. The Soundcore C40i ($99.99, soundcore.com) is another fun option in a non-traditional form factor. Instead of going inside or even over the top your ears, the C40i earbuds are u-shaped and they clip on the sides of your ears. They are unlike anything I’ve ever tried, and they sounded surprisingly good once you get them in the right spot. They are a bit flexible, in that you can pull them apart slightly to get them in the right spot. Once you let go, they gently grip your earlobe. I must admit I was a little self-conscious when I first started wearing the C40i earbuds, as they look a bit like earrings. The fit is interesting. The end with the speaker sits in front of your ear canal and the end with the battery and action button goes behind your ear. You can adjust them on your ear until the sound becomes clear. It’ll be obvious to your ears when you have them adjusted correctly. If your earlobes are thin, there are some rubber sleeves that can help with the fit. You want them to be snug, but not to the point where they are pinching your ears. There is a customizable button on the back of each earbud for call and music control. They are on the small side, so the battery life is seven hours before needing to return to the case for a charge. The case can charge them twice more before it needs recharging. The case charges via USB-C cable, but it is too small for wireless chargers. The earbuds have a 12mm x 17mm oval shaped driver and the sound quality is very good. Voice quality on phone calls also surprised me with its clarity. They sync with the Soundcore phone app to let you assign the button commands and tweak the sound settings. They also can pair to two devices at once. Frequent flyers know all about noise canceling over-the-ear headphones. These headphones usually have active noise canceling, which uses microphones to listen to the ambient noise and reduce it before it can get to your ears. What I’m noticing is more and more people wearing these during workouts or just walking around. The Baseus Bowie 30 Max noise canceling headphones ($79.99, baseus.com) are fairly generic looking headphones, but their performance is incredible for the price. Baseus says the Bowie 30s can eliminate 96 percent of noise, but that actual noise cancellation will vary depending on the ambient noise level. I can tell you the noise canceling is impressive. There is also a transparency mode that lets in outside sounds so you can have a conversation with someone without taking them off. You can pair them to the free Baseus phone app to unlock some additional features including spatial acoustics, bass enhancement and low-latency mode. These connect to your phone or PC wirelessly via Bluetooth or wired with an included 3.5mm cable. They last an impressive 65 hours on a charge without noise canceling or 50 hours with noise canceling enabled. The ear cups and piece that fits over the top of your head are nicely padded and the entire headset folds up to take up less room in your bag. ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Wellness influencers on social media more likely to oppose COVID-19 vaccination, study finds

As the dust settles and the impact of the airstrikes becomes clear, one thing is certain: the fight against terrorism is far from over. The Islamic State may have been dealt a significant blow, but the threat they pose remains real. The United States and its allies must remain vigilant, continue to work together, and adapt their strategies to effectively combat terrorism in all its forms.Los Angeles Clippers guard Patrick Beverley suffered a setback in his journey back to full health when it was revealed that he has a slight tear in his quadriceps muscle. The injury is expected to sideline him for approximately six weeks, dealing a blow to the Clippers' lineup as they continue their push for the playoffs.

In addition to its willingness to address regulatory concerns, NVIDIA has also taken steps to enhance its transparency and accountability measures. The company has implemented robust internal controls and compliance processes to ensure that its operations are conducted in accordance with legal requirements and best practices. By investing in these measures, NVIDIA is demonstrating its commitment to responsible corporate governance and building a culture of compliance within the organization.