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A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart or smarter than humans, amid intensifying competition with China over advanced technologies. 
Microsoft has released the first release candidate of PowerShell 7.5 for download. Interestingly, despite not being a general availability release, Microsoft considers it a "go-live" release which means that it's a supported release in production.
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-releases-powershell-75-rc1-ga-due-in-january/
The U.S. will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant, according to a media report Monday.
https://japantoday.com/category/tech/us-to-call-for-google-to-sell-chrome-browser-report
Asian stocks rose on Tuesday while U.S. bond yields and the dollar hung back from multi-month highs as traders awaited President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet selection and sought to gauge the outlook for Federal Reserve easing
https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-wrapup-1-2024-11-19/
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned at the Group of 20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro that artificial intelligence should not be a "game of rich countries and the wealthy," state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined a growing list of former tech leaders taking roles in San Francisco's government following this month's election.
SpaceX launched what has been a top secret mission just before dusk on Sunday. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:28 EST. SpaceX called the mission "TD7," even though regulatory filings and U.S. government agency and regulatory findings, including the Space Force and the Federal Aviation Administration, call the payload "Optus-X."
Source: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/11/17/4141731890696/f2dc6bdde0de2600ab9ca3bed169da55f09e7630
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles inside Russia, something Biden had specifically prohibited until now, two U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News on Sunday.
AMD dominates chip sales on Amazon — top ten best selling CPUs all come from Team Red, Intel’s highest entry sits at 11th place.
Musk's concerns over Google DeepMind 'AI Dictatorship' revealed in emails from 2016 — According to the Transformer, an email from Musk in 2016 said, “Deepmind [sic] is causing me extreme mental stress. If they win, it will be really bad news with their one mind to rule the world philosophy.” He further aired concerns that “Demis [Hassabis] could create an AGI dictatorship.”
As efficient as electronic data storage systems can be, they've got nothing on nature's own version – DNA. A new technique for writing data to DNA works like a printing press and makes it easy enough that anyone could do it.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-dna-printing-technique-could-revolutionize-how-we-store-data
NASA is partnering with Microsoft to develop an AI-powered chatbot geared toward making it much easier to sift through the enormous amounts of data collected by the space agency's Earth-observing satellites.
ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday college football show SEC Nation. Dubbed FACTS, it’s going to be “...promoting education and fun around sports analytics” with information drawn from ESPN Analytics. 
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/24297606/espn-generative-ai-avatar-facts
Musicians could soon be able to remix the songs that they upload to YouTube thanks to an experimental AI tool currently rolling out to select content creators.
The new tool is built atop YouTube’s Dream Track, which was released last year and enables users to compose songs based on text prompts and by using prerecorded vocals. 
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/youtube-testing-ai-music-remixer-shorts/
Apple has deleted one of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Russian-language news apps from the Russian App Store at the request of state communications regulator Roskomnadzor, the news outlet said on Friday.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing to launch a tender offer in December to sell existing shares at a price of $135 per share, two sources familiar with the matter said.
The tender offer would value SpaceX at more than $250 billion, according to the sources.
On Thursday, the European Union published its first draft of a Code of Practice for general purpose AI (GPAI) models. The document, which won’t be finalized until May, lays out guidelines for managing risks — and giving companies a blueprint to comply and avoid hefty penalties.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would nominate former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-anti-vaccine-activist-rfk-public-health-hhs/
African governments should give fibre optic cables greater protection from attacks and harmonize policies around layouts to encourage the development of tech infrastructure, a Google executive said on Thursday.
Alphabet's Google on Thursday released a smartphone app for its artificial intelligence chatbot on Apple's App Store that introduced the latest generation of its voice assistant to the popular mobile operating system.
