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In today's Techpresso:

🤖 AI startup plans to replace all human workers

🩺 Alibaba AI cancer tool receives FDA breakthrough status

🚗 Tesla reportedly delays new low-cost model launch by months

🎣 New kind of phishing attack is fooling Gmail's security

💥 Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection

📉 Data reveals Google AI Overviews drain clicks from websites

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🤖 AI startup plans to replace all human workers LINK
  • New US company Mechanize plans to replace all human labor using artificial intelligence by developing virtual environments and benchmarks that replicate comprehensive job functions completely.
  • Targeting the vast $60 trillion global wage pool, founder Tamay Besiroglu clarified the venture's immediate objective is automating administrative and professional roles, not manual tasks currently.
  • This ambitious goal prompted considerable backlash and reflects broader public apprehension about potential job displacement from AI, even as some economists foresee augmentation instead of obsolescence.
🩺 Alibaba AI cancer tool receives FDA breakthrough status LINK
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration awarded "breakthrough device" designation to Alibaba's Damo Academy for its Damo Panda artificial intelligence technology aimed at spotting cancer.
  • Introduced in a Nature Medicine paper, the sophisticated AI system Damo Panda is specifically built to help identify pancreatic cancer earlier in individuals undergoing medical checks.
  • Alibaba is already implementing this innovative diagnostic tool in trials throughout China, having examined around 40,000 individuals at a medical facility in Ningbo city so far.
🚗 Tesla reportedly delays new low-cost model launch by months LINK
  • According to reports, the electric car maker has pushed back the planned debut of its more affordable vehicle by several months, possibly into late 2025 or early 2026.
  • This postponement coincides with the company experiencing reduced worldwide demand attributed to aging products, executive controversies, and lower-than-expected Cybertruck results impacting buyer perception.
  • Chief Executive Elon Musk seemingly cancelled the initiative for a completely new budget automobile, redirecting efforts toward manufacturing less expensive iterations of the existing Model Y and Model 3.
🎣 New kind of phishing attack is fooling Gmail's security LINK
  • A novel phishing scam uses Google's own infrastructure to send deceptive messages that bypass standard security checks, aiming to harvest user account information through fake portals.
  • Attackers manipulated Google's OAuth system to generate legitimate-looking, DKIM-signed security alerts, which were then forwarded to targets to enhance the scheme's credibility.
  • This vulnerability allowed fraudulent login pages hosted on Google's web-building platform to appear more authentic, prompting the company to work on addressing the security loophole.
💥 Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection LINK
  • Meta is employing artificial intelligence to identify young users on Instagram who falsely claim to be adults, automatically placing them into more restricted Teen Accounts for safety.
  • These special Teen Accounts automatically apply safeguards limiting interactions and the type of content viewable by users verified as being younger than eighteen years old.
  • The social media giant is also educating parents about discussing age verification online and recently expanded this protective account system to Facebook and Messenger platforms.
📉 Data reveals Google AI Overviews drain clicks from websites LINK
  • New research from Ahrefs reveals Google's AI Overviews are causing a substantial 34.5% decrease in clicks for the premier organic search listings, challenging the platform's claims.
  • Ahrefs' research, analyzing 300,000 primarily informational queries via Google Search Console, documented a significant fall in user clicks for the highest-ranked organic search result.
  • This pattern suggests continued erosion of direct website traffic, potentially altering the web's structure and forcing content creators to comply with platform rules for visibility.

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Latest research and tools

TikTok VM Reverse Engineering Project: provides tools to deobfuscate TikTok's custom virtual machine and generate signed URLs for authenticated requests like posting comments. LINK
PyTorch VRAM Hot Swapper: keeps large PyTorch models loaded in graphics memory while developers modify code, eliminating long waits for model reloads. LINK
Nerdlog: a text-based viewer to quickly read and filter logs from multiple remote computers at once, showing a timeline graph for analysis without needing a central server. LINK
Nudge Theory: Users Weaken Their Behavior Change Regimen over Time (2021): this paper shows that people become less consistent with behavior changes prompted by nudges over time. LINK

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