SpaceX's "Starship" second flight exploded again, and Musk still spoke out to encourage relevant teams|Science and Technology Morning Post
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The SpaceX Starship blew up again! But this time there was a lot of progress and the technical verification was completed
Although both the booster rocket and the Starship exploded, the launch completed an important technical verification: after technical improvements, the launch did not damage the launch pad, and the Starship and the booster rocket successfully completed the "thermal separation". From this point of view, the launch was also a partial success. (Tencent Space)
The second test flight of the "Starship" heavy rocket still failed and self-destructed, and Musk spoke: Congratulations to the SpaceX team
The second test flight of the "Starship" went further than it did in April this year, but it still did not complete all the scheduled plans, and finally exploded again. However, Musk then posted a message encouraging the relevant team: "Congratulations to the team of SpaceX!" (Huanqiu.com)
Technology companies
Amazon laid off hundreds more Alexa employees, with a focus on generative AI projects
According to media reports, Amazon fired hundreds of Alexa team members located in its offices in the United States and Canada. In addition, the vice president of Alexa said that the division is refocusing its business development to maximize our resources and efforts to focus on generative AI. (IT House)
Meta is facing an investigation by Italy's antitrust regulator into branded content placement on Instagram
Italy's antitrust regulator, the Italian Competition Authority, has launched an investigation into whether Meta Platforms failed to provide adequate information on how to flag branded content on Instagram and how to monitor the tool's use in connection with promoted content. (Interface News)
The Philippine president met with Zhou Shouzi in the United States and called on TikTok to help train local businesses to promote their products
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos met with TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi in San Francisco, hoping that TikTok would help train local businesses to promote their products. Zhou Shouzi responded that he hoped TikTok could provide more resources to highlight and train local sellers in rural areas of the Philippines. (Interface News)
AI weather vane
Caught up in life and death in a matter of hours?Why was Ultraman, the soul of OpenAI, deposed?
The essence of this conflict comes from the battle over how to balance OpenAI's mission, vision, values and commercial profits, as a huge controversial business involving the "destruction and survival of all mankind", the company's commercial profits and mission, vision and values are different, even contradictory. The inability to balance these should be the main reason why Ultraman is out as the soul of the company. (Epiphany)
Foreign media revealed that OpenAI's new interim CEO: a real star of the company and a former senior employee of Tesla
Murati, who temporarily took over as CEO of OpenAI, advocated for public testing of the company's products, favored regulation of AI, and advocated a redesign of the Turing test to allow the OpenAI system to learn from real people. She foresees that GPT-4 will open up opportunities for people, such as working with educators to demonstrate the application of AI in teaching. (Tencent Technology)
Tech figures
TSMC founder responds to "American semiconductor independence" in the United States: "At least not in the short term"
TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou recently said that it is impossible for the United States to re-establish a semiconductor industry as large as TSMC in the short term, and believes that it is difficult to enter the complex chip manufacturing market even if it costs a lot of money. He also mentioned that the $39 billion subsidy of the CHIPS and Science Act is relatively small for TSMC's average annual investment of more than $30 billion, and he feels that it is a bit wasteful, whether it is this bill or others. (Huanqiu.com)
The media revealed that Apple and others suspended advertising on X, and Musk: will sue those who fraudulently attacked us
Musk posted on the social media platform X that Company X will file a lawsuit next Monday against the nonprofit Media Matters and "all those who conspired to launch a fraudulent attack on our company." (Huanqiu.com)