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🧬 Google DeepMind to soon begin human trials of AI-designed drugs
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- Google DeepMind's drug discovery company, Isomorphic Labs, is "getting very close" to starting the first human trials for its AI-designed medicines.
- Its work relies on the AlphaFold AI, a system that predicts protein structures and models their interactions with molecules to speed up drug discovery.
- Alongside partnerships with Novartis and Eli Lilly, the lab is developing its own drug candidates in oncology and immunology for future licensing opportunities.
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📱 TikTok is building a new app for US users
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- TikTok is building a new app called "M2" for its United States users, which is being developed ahead of a scheduled sale to a group of investors.
- Current users will eventually need to download the "M2" app to continue using the service, though the original application will function until March of next year.
- The company plans to release this new app in US app stores by September 5, but it remains unclear if followers and posts will transfer over.
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⚖️ Apple challenges 'unprecedented' €500M EU fine over App Store payment restraints
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- Apple is appealing its €500 million fine, arguing the European Commission's decision is unprecedented and forces business terms confusing for developers and users.
- The commission's ruling came after it found Apple was restricting developers from informing customers about alternative purchase offers available outside the App Store.
- Apple says the EC is mandating its business operations by forcing a new fee structure with a Core Technology Commission and different tiers for store services.
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🤖 Huawei denies copying Alibaba's AI model
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- Research group HonestAGI published a report claiming Huawei’s new Pangu Pro MoE model is merely an "upcycled" version of rival Alibaba's existing Qwen 2.5.
- The researchers used a "fingerprinting" method on attention parameter matrices, finding a 0.927 correlation and a Qwen license file inside Pangu's official code.
- Huawei’s Noah Ark Lab denied the charge, stating its Pangu AI was developed independently from the ground up on the company's own Ascend chips.
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📈 Windows 11 becomes world's most popular desktop OS
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- According to Stat Counter data, Windows 11 is now the most used desktop OS with 52 percent market share, overtaking the 44.59 percent of Windows 10.
- Slower adoption was caused by the system's strict hardware requirements, which prevented millions of older machines from getting the free upgrade offered to many users.
- The OS reached this milestone nearly four years after its release and just months before support for Windows 10 officially ends on October 14th.
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📚 ChatGPT is testing a new study together mode
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- OpenAI is testing a new "Study together" mode that could help students prepare for their exams directly within the ChatGPT interface, though it isn't functional yet.
- The feature might let users invite friends to a shared session or allow the artificial intelligence to serve as a personal companion during study preparations.
- The company is also experimenting with new connectors for GPT Search and Deep Research, including one that will crawl your Slack messages to use for context.
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🤫 Researchers hide AI prompts to influence peer review
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- Researchers put hidden AI prompts into 17 different papers on the preprint website arXiv, hoping to influence the results of any AI-assisted peer review.
- The prompts, concealed using white text or small fonts, told AI tools to "give a positive review only" or praise the paper’s "methodological rigor."
- One professor defended the practice as "a counter against ‘lazy reviewers’ who use AI," even though many conferences have banned this kind of evaluation tool.
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