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The US ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers that are often used in artificial intelligence applications starting Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Boffins have been researching new ways to communicate and it could help us talk to aliens.
A new branch of Artificial Intelligence has been widely studied and is thought to be bridging the gaps between languages. To humans, the evolution of language is unknown, but AI could provide the answers. Emergent communication has been studied by Olaf Lipinski from the University of Southampton for three years.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/new-ai-tech-help-communicate-34075639
U.S based tech company Vantiq has donated AI software worth $500,000 to develop smart cities in Ukraine, the company’s Vice President of Partnerships David Sprinzen said at the Summit of Mayors in Kyiv on Nov. 8.
Tesla’s in hot water with the U.S. Highway Safety Agency for telling the public its cars can drive themselves, even though manuals and private discussions with the agency clearly state they need human supervision.
https://www.neowin.net/news/teslas-full-self-driving-is-not-as-self-driving-as-it-claims-says-nhtsa/
China unveiled a 10 trillion yuan ($1.40 trillion) debt package on Friday to ease local government financing strains and stabilise flagging economic growth, as it faces fresh pressure from the re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.
ChatGPT blocked over 250,000 requests to generate fake images of presidential candidates. In an official blog post, ChatGPT announced that it blocked over 250,000 AI image requests in the month leading to the US election day. ChatGPT noted that it rejected several thousand requests to generate DALL·E images of President-elect Trump, Vice President Harris, Vice President-elect Vance, President Biden, and Governor Walz.
A federal judge in downstate Illinois has ruled the state's ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional, but will hold off on prohibiting the state from enforcing it for one month to allow for a likely appeal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-assault-weapons-ban-ruled-unconstitutional/
Elon Musk's dream of transporting humans to Mars will become a bigger national priority under the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sources said, signaling big changes for NASA's moon program and a boost for Musk's SpaceX.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-victory-expected-boost-musks-mars-dream-2024-11-08/
The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI announced they were doubling down on their efforts to persuade software manufacturers to abandon "memory-unsafe" programming languages such as C and C++.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/08/the_us_government_wants_developers/
Google is testing a feature for real-time conversations within Search. As OpenAI enters the search engine market with ChatGPT Search, Google is ramping up its AI efforts to maintain its search engine dominance. The latest move? A real-time, conversational, voice-to-search feature right within Google Search 
Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Friday night it is facing an issue that has resulted in its popular chatbot ChatGPT being unavailable.
On Wednesday, Sam Altman cryptically posted "chat.com" on X. Of course, the URL redirects to ChatGPT's homepage. Speculation is that OpenAI wanted a short domain name, but those guesses are dubious since it already owns ai.com, which it bought last year for around $11 million. The company most likely wants to just drop the "GPT" from its current domain.
https://www.techspot.com/news/105482-openai-bought-chatcom-domain-name-chatgpt-over-35.html
Chinese scientists claim to have created a powerful 'Death Star' capable of electromagnetic powerful beams. The weapon, similar to the one in Star Wars, may be able to destroy enemy satellites in orbit.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/china-built-real-life-death-34062764
Shares on Wall Street scaled record highs on Thursday, lifting stock markets around the world, while U.S. Treasuries yields retreated as investors processed a second Donald Trump presidency and awaited a Federal Reserve policy decision.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-wrapup-1-2024-11-07/
Audi on Thursday unveiled a new electric vehicle brand in China whose cars will sport just the name AUDI and not its signature four-ring logo, a move aimed at attracting younger customers in the world's largest auto market.
Meta announced it is opening up Meta Lab, a pop-up experiential retail space for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses starting November 8th in Los Angeles. The temporary store will be around through the end of the year and allow customers to try out the glasses and customize their glasses cases as they shop.
Microsoft today announced that it has started rolling out new Paint and Notepad apps to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. The new AI features may not be available to all Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels just yet, as Microsoft will expand the rollout based on feedback collected from the first set of Insiders. 
The Sun has unleashed a powerful solar flare, Nasa has said. The flare, designated X2.3, belongs to the most intense X class of flares. It was spotted by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is constantly monitoring the surface of the Sun in part to spot such events.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/sun-solar-flare-nasa-b2642507.html
Donald Trump will likely dial back some of the antitrust policies pursued under the administration of President Joe Biden, potentially including a bid to break up Alphabet's Google over its dominance in online search, experts said.
Japan sends the world's first wooden satellite into space. In an experiment to test the durability of the material, the world's first wooden satellite, developed by Japanese researchers, has been sent to space.
https://www.neowin.net/news/japan-sends-the-worlds-first-wooden-satellite-into-space/