"CBS Weekend News" headlines for Sunday, April 28, 2024
Here's a look at the top stories making headlines on the "CBS Weekend News" with Jericka Duncan.
Here's a look at the top stories making headlines on the "CBS Weekend News" with Jericka Duncan.
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company. "This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend," Altman said. Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's director of research.
At Google I/O 2024, Google gave us a glimpse at what next-gen AI could do, but after trying it out, it's clear it won't arrive anytime soon.
Intuitive Machines is looking to help reshape the Mars Sample Return mission architecture with its own technology, based on architecture it has been developing for the moon, executives told investors during a quarterly earnings call Tuesday. “Intuitive Machines has engaged the agency and intends to provide a solution set based on technology architecture we have been developing for lunar material return,” Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus said. The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program is the agency’s $11 billion, 15-year mission to collect and return samples from the red planet, but NASA administrators finally admitted last month that the architecture had become too complex and too expensive.
As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. According to Google, the new "Web" filter will appear either at the top of the results page or as part of the "More" option, depending on your query. The launch is an admission that sometimes people will want to just surface text-based links to web pages -- the classic blue links that today are often of secondary importance as Google either answers the question in its informational Knowledge Panels or, now, through AI experiments.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announced on Tuesday. The NS-25 mission will launch from Blue’s launch site in West Texas on May 19. The launch window opens at 8:30 a.m. The six-person crew includes Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate (but for whom this would be the first visit to space), along with investor Mason Angel, who founded the space- and defense-focused Industrious Ventures.
People who open up about their feelings toward aging tend to have better current well-being, study finds.
“I feel like people are going to have their opinion of me no matter what.”
Kelce retired in March after 13 years in the NFL with the Eagles.
Here's all the big news that Google announced at I/O 2024 in a single place.
Google says it has developed a new family of generative AI models "fine-tuned" for learning: LearnLM. A collaboration between Google's DeepMind AI research division and Google Research, LearnLM models — built on top of Google's Gemini models — are designed to "conversationally" tutor students on a range of subjects, Google says. LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google's Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.
Animal Well has only been out for a few days and already speedrunners are figuring out the quickest way to roll credits. Some are already beating the game in under five minutes.
Put that boring T-shirt aside: Amazon shoppers say this pretty option is easy to dress up or down, and it comes in plenty of summery hues.
The survey also shows a dip in the former president’s favorable rating — from 45% in March to 41% today.
It’s that moment you’ve been waiting for all year: Google I/O keynote day! Google kicks off its developer conference each year with a rapid-fire stream of announcements, including many unveilings of recent things it's been working on.
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The refreshed Korean-market Kia EV6 debuts with a new face and a larger battery, plus cabin changes like a digital rearview mirror and new steering wheels.
On Tuesday, Google announced a number of new additions to Gemma, its family of open (but not open source) models comparable to Meta's Llama and Mistral's open models, at its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference. The headline-grabbing release here is Gemma 2, the next generation of Google's open-weights Gemma models, which will launch with a 27 billion parameter model in June. Already available is PaliGemma, a pre-trained Gemma variant that Google describes as "the first vision language model in the Gemma family" for image captioning, image labeling and visual Q&A use cases.
Google just announced some changes to Gemini on Android at I/O 2024. The chatbot can now contextually analyze specific apps and provide relevant suggested actions.
Whether you need to send or receive money, a money order can be a secure way to do so — and it doesn’t require a bank account. Learn more about how money orders work.
April's CPI report is one of the most important data points the Federal Reserve will consider in its next interest rate decision.