It's issue #198 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
AI startup OpenAI has unveiled a text-to-video model, called Sora, which could raise the bar for what's possible in generative AI. Internet has been abuzz with some stellar videos from past week. Check them out here.
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How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer
The leading Chinese electric vehicle company, with origins as a battery maker, has posted two years of million-car growth in sales.
Google's next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
The model delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities.
The anatomy of a Super Bowl ad
How learning app Duolingo’s cheeky five-second spot beat the odds in a crowded field.
This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything
MIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will travel to one of Jupiter's largest moons to look for evidence of conditions that could support life.
Newly spotted black hole has mass of 17 billion Suns, adding another daily
An accretion disk 7 light-years across powers an exceptionally bright galaxy.
Why are farmers annoyed with the government and whether their demand for a Minimum Support Price is economically viable.
How ‘pace layers’ can help designers understand complex systems.
Inside the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider
The Large Hadron Collider hasn’t seen any new particles since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Here’s what researchers are trying to do about it.
Honorary mentions
Android 15’s first developer preview
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