Inside Japan’s futuristic smart city 🏙️ Microsoft Hires DeepMind co-founder 🧘

Overview of the Week 🌎

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Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years for fraud (=stealing investors money).

Data from 73 million AT&T accounts leaked (=made public).

LinkedIn is testing a short-form video feed (=short length video style).

NYC will test AI gun detectors (=locater) on the subway.

Advertisers think that Meta inflating (=increasing) marketing metrics.

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DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman will run Microsoft’s new consumer AI unit 🧘

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Summary:

• Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to run a new consumer AI unit called Microsoft AI.

• Suleyman is one of Google DeepMind's co-founders and chief executive of AI startup ‘Inflection’.

• Microsoft AI will combine consumer-facing products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge into one team.

• Inflection will switch its focus from its consumer chatbot to selling enterprise AI software to businesses.

consumer = a person who purchases goods and services for personal use
“Understanding consumers is very important for a successful business”

co-founders = a person who founds or establishes something with another
“The company's co-founder and CEO was born in Detroit”
fun fact: founder is related to Latin fundus, meaning "bottom" or "base"

switch focus = stop paying attention to the first thing and start paying attention to the second
“Let's switch the focus from developing code to presenting our findings”

‘Mass human experiment’: Inside Japan’s futuristic $15 billion smart city 🏙️

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Summary:

• Toyota's Woven City project, located close to Japan's Mount Fuji, will complete Phase 1 of its development by the end of the year and start trials in 2025.

• The city will be used to pilot experiments and innovations in personal mobility, automated driving, robots, and artificial intelligence.

• It will have streets for automated driving, as well as underground roads for transportation.

• The project will begin with around 350 residents, mainly senior citizens, families with young children, and inventors.

trial = a test of the performance of something
“Medical trials will determine whether the new drug is working”

pilot = done as an experiment or test before introducing something
“A two-year pilot study”
fun fact: early 16th century (denoting a person who steers a ship)

mobility = the ability to move or be moved freely and easily
“This exercise helps people’s mobility”

Vocabulary of the Week 📚

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