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AI technology dominates the news cycle with news of DeepMind’s groundbreaking discovery of almost all structures of known proteins, an ethical dilemma prompted by a chess-playing robot that broke its young opponent’s finger, the artistic possibilities that DALL-E’s text-to-picture art tool may deliver, and more.
- The DOJ announces the extradition of a Romanian hacker for allegedly designing and operating a virus-for-hire service. (Corin Faife, The Verge)
- A robot breaks a boy’s finger during a chess match in Moscow. (Masha Angelova and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN)
- Open AI plans to allow up to one million people on its waitlist to beta test its text-to-picture Dall-E tool. (Bobby Allyn, NPR)
- A study finds that the wellbeing of gamers is not affected by the amount of time spent playing. (Zoe Kleinman, BBC News)
- Breach Forums, a hacker forum on the dark web, is selling Twitter users’ stolen social media information. (Peter Suciu, Forbes)
- AI company DeepMind announces its expansion of a free database that will share its predictions of almost all structures of known proteins. (Nicole Wetsman, The Verge)
- Is there a correlation between the crypto market crash and drop in ransomware attacks? (Crystal Kim, Axios)
- Google announces it plans to test its latest model of augmented reality glasses in public settings. (Kif Leswing, CNBC)
- Experts disagree on the role of virtual reality technology in the Metaverse. (Brian Newar, Cointelegraph)
- Will fighter jets of the future be equipped with AI wingmen? (Michael Dempsey, BBC News)
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