French pharma giant Sanofi paid $300 million to buy 16 percent of Orano Med, a rising player in radiopharma, the emerging science of using nuclear isotopes to kill cancer tumors.
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
China’s economy expanded at an annual rate of 4.6 percent in the third quarter, according to government figures, ticking down from the previous quarter’s 4.7 percent and far short of Beijing’s 5-percent growth target for this year.
TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: LUCID SEEKS CASH, WILL SELL ANOTHER 262.4 MILLION SHARES
Electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors announced a plan to raise more than $750 million by selling another 262.4 million shares of common stock.
AN AI FOR DEI
A new AI is ready to help consumer product companies improve diversity in their advertising just as those companies are caving to pressures to forsake their inclusion initiatives.
TOP TREND 2023, SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMY: CHINA USES DOMESTIC CHIPS TO TRAIN AI WITH A TRILLION PARAMETERS
China Telecom, a state-owned business, says it has used chips designed in-house to create two large language model AIs trained to consider a trillion variables at a time.
ENDOR LABS OFFERS TEST FOR OPEN-SOURCE AI MODELS
Endor Labs, a Silicon Valley company specializing in secure software development, has created a screen to test the quality of open-source software models available on Hugging Face and other sites where the models can be downloaded.
MAJOR AI SYSTEMS FAIL EUROPE’S AI ACT COMPLIANCE TEST
A number of AI models have work to do if they’re to comply with key provisions of the European Union’s AI Act, passed by the union’s parliament last May.
GOOGLE COMMISSIONS MINI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS TO RUN DATA CENTERS
Google has signed what it says is "the world's first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors.”
OPENAI CREATES SAFETY CHECKLIST FOR AI
Engineers at OpenAI have designed a suite of tests to determine whether a future AI should be considered “artificial general intelligence” (AGI)—an AI that not only can outperform humans in most mental abilities but also can evolve new versions of itself without human intervention.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A new Department of Defense (DoD) directive issued in late September very arguably runs afoul of longstanding prohibitions on the U.S. military being used in domestic operations and surveillance against American citizens.