🛸 US to deploy world’s first alien-hunting system

🛸 US to deploy world’s first alien-hunting system

• The Pentagon announced the deployment of a new alien-hunting system called Gremlin, utilizing advanced 2D and 3D radar technologies, starting in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025.

• Despite numerous reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the Pentagon maintains there is no evidence of extraterrestrials and continues to resolve cases to prosaic objects like balloons and drones.

• The Gremlin system, developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute, aims to improve UAP detection and characterization, enhancing US airspace safety and pattern-of-life analysis.

👀 OpenAI’s tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others

• Emails from Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others reveal tensions within OpenAI, showing concerns about Musk's desire for control and Altman's future business direction.

• Former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever expressed worries that Musk's leadership structure might lead to a monopolized control over artificial general intelligence, contrasting OpenAI's original nonprofit vision.

• The correspondence also showed OpenAI's early interest in acquiring Cerebras and a potential collaboration with Microsoft, though both did not come to fruition.

🕶️ Samsung XR glasses specs revealed in a new leak

• Samsung's forthcoming XR glasses, developed with Google, are slated for release in the third quarter of 2025, sharing specifications with Ray-Ban Meta glasses like a 12MP camera and Qualcomm’s AR1 chipset.

• The glasses are expected to lack a display, focusing instead on AI functionalities such as QR code recognition, gesture recognition, and human recognition, aiming to offer more versatility than Meta's alternative.

• Samsung plans an initial production run of 500,000 units for these smart glasses and might preview the product ahead of the official launch, as it did with the Galaxy Ring earlier this year.

📄 Google Docs introduces AI image creation

• Google has introduced a Gemini-powered AI image generator in Google Docs, allowing users to create clip art, similar to Microsoft's AI-generated art in its Office suite.

• This new feature is accessible to paid Workspace users with specific add-ons, enabling them to create images using a description and choose from various art styles.

• The image generator offers options for aspect ratios and full-bleed cover images, utilizing Google's Imagen 3 for improved quality, with a rollout starting today for rapid release domains.

🟦 Bluesky won’t use posts for AI training

• Bluesky has announced that it will not use user content to train generative AI tools, aiming to protect creators' data in response to concerns over competitors using such data for AI development.

• Despite Bluesky's pledge, its public nature allows other companies like Google or OpenAI to potentially scrape posts for AI training, as its robots.txt doesn't block these external entities from crawling data.

• Bluesky reported surpassing 17 million users as it attracts individuals looking for microblogging alternatives to X, and the company is expanding its moderation team to handle a surge in spam and trolling activities.

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