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US LAWMAKERS VOTE 50-0 TO FORCE SALE OF TIKTOK DESPITE ANGRY CALLS
FROM USERS (4 MINUTE READ) [11]

The House Commerce Committee has voted to approve a bill that would
force ByteDance to sell the company or lose access to the US market.
The bill still has to pass in the House and Senate and be signed into
law before it comes into effect. TikTok is urging its users to protest
the bill. Lawmakers responded by noting that the app will only be
banned if it doesn't sever its relationship with the Chinese Communist
Party.

KEY OPENAI EXECUTIVE PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN SAM ALTMAN'S OUSTER
(9 MINUTE READ) [4]

OpenAI's chief technology officer Mira Murati questioned Sam Altman's management in front of the board last year before Altman was briefly
ousted from the company. This move helped to propel the board's
decision to force Altman out. Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and chief
scientist of OpenAI, expressed similar concerns. Both executives said
that Altman sometimes created a toxic work environment by freezing out executives who did not support his decisions. WilmerHale, the law firm investigating the incident, is expected to release a report in the
coming days that could shed more light on the board's decision.

OPENAI: FACTS FROM A WEEKEND - AN UPDATE (8 MINUTE READ) [10]

The investigation into OpenAI's sudden ousting of Sam Altman is
almost over, and it appears Altman won. A new board has apparently
been chosen. Leaks about the case are likely moves from the
anti-Altman faction to strike first before WilmerHale's report is
released. This post makes predictions about the results of the
investigation and who will be on the new OpenAI board.

NEW WEIGHT LOSS PILL MORE EFFECTIVE THAN OZEMPIC, TESTS FIND (2
MINUTE READ) [6]

Novo Nordisk's new obesity treatment drug, amycretin, helped patients
lose 13% of their body weight in just 12 weeks. The drug may be more
effective than semaglutide. Amycretin targets GLP-1 and another
hormone called amylin, both of which are believed to be linked to
hunger and satiety. The drug still needs to go through much larger
trials that will likely drag on for years before it will be publicly
available. The results of the initial trials sent Novo Nordisk's stock
rising as much as 8.3%.

ENGINEER PLANS SOLAR PANEL IMPLANT FOR HUMAN RETINA TO RETAIN
EYESIGHT (4 MINUTE READ) [7]

Engineers from the University of New South Wales in Australia are
working on a prototype solar panel implant for the retinas to restore
sight. The implant converts light into electrical signals that can be
directed to the optic nerve, enabling vision. Users may need to wear
special glasses or goggles that amplify sunlight for the device to
work. The device is still in a proof-of-concept stage - a lot more
work still needs to be done before it is ready for human implantation.

RIVIAN REVEALS THREE NEW, SMALLER ELECTRIC SUVS: THE R2, R3, AND R3X
(4 MINUTE READ) [12]

This article contains pictures of and details about Rivian's three
new vehicles.

HUGGING FACE IS LAUNCHING AN OPEN SOURCE ROBOTICS PROJECT LED BY
FORMER TESLA SCIENTIST (4 MINUTE READ) [13]

Hugging Face is launching a new robotics project under former Tesla
staff scientist Remi Cadene - the team is now hiring robotics
engineers in Paris, France.

INFLECTION AI'S FRIENDLY CHATBOT TOPS 1 MILLION DAILY USERS (4 MINUTE
READ) [17]

Inflection AI's Pi chatbot has an updated engine that is better than
GPT-4 at things like math, college-level science, and coding while
using only 40% of the training compute as the OpenAI model.

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[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a00.qm8I.UrNbQdRlYGEA&smid=url-share&utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[6] https://futurism.com/neoscope/new-weight-loss-pill-more-effective-than-ozempic?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[7] https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/solar-panels-restore-vision?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[11] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/house-committee-votes-50-0-to-force-tiktok-to-divest-from-chinese-owner/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[12] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/rivian-reveals-three-new-smaller-electric-suvs-the-r2-r3-and-r3x/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[13] https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-is-launching-an-open-source-robotics-project-led-by-former-tesla-scientist/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

[17] https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/inflection-ai-chatgpt-openai-comparison?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

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