🧸 Meta's new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video

Plus: The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here. Top Apple Executive Is Leaving After Making Crude Remarks in TikTok Video. And more…

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Meta's new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video. AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to- video generators. A team of machine learning engineers from Facebook's parent company Meta has unveiled… (James Vincent / The Verge)

James Vincent @jjvincent

AI researchers at Facebook's parent company Meta have unveiled Make-A-Video — an early stages text-to-video AI model that generates five second video clips like those below based on text prompts. details here: theverge.com/2022/9/29/2337…

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The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here. The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that make up DNA. Determining the sequence of all those letters used to take vast amounts… (Emily Mullin / WIRED)

Emily Mullin @emilylmullin

Genomics company Illumina just unveiled its fastest, most cost-efficient DNA sequencer yet. The machine will deliver a $200 human genome and will be able to generate 20,000 of them a year.

wired.comThe Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is HereIllumina just announced a machine that can crack genomes twice as fast as its current version—and drive the cost down to $200 a pop.

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Top Apple Executive Is Leaving After Making Crude Remarks in TikTok Video. One of Apple Inc. 's most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making an off-color joke that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living. In the video, published on Sept. 5, Apple's Tony Blevins… (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman @markgurman

Story now on @business, from me: Apple’s top executive in charge of negotiating deals with partners and suppliers - VP of Procurement Tony Blevins - is leaving the company after making crude comments in a viral TikTok video.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Jack Dorsey sends private texts to Elon Musk about Twitter. Text messages between Elon Musk and various notables in tech and business have been released. In several private exchanges, Musk and Jack Dorsey discussed the platform and Musk's involvement. 'I trust you,' Dorsey said in one text to Musk. Get the… (Kali Hays / Business Insider)

Alex Kantrowitz @Kantrowitz

"Couldn't be happier you're doing this." @jack to @elonmusk

businessinsider.comNewly revealed private texts show Jack Dorsey tried to get Elon Musk involved with Twitter at least a year before the $44 billion deal. ‘I …A trove of private texts between Elon Musk and notable figures in business and tech is part of Twitter’s ongoing lawsuit against the billionaire.

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The Tech Site That Took On China's Surveillance State. Behind Heights Market & Deli (“Home of the Hoagie”) and next to Finishers Mixed Martial Arts gym, in a neighborhood of tidy lawns adorned with reflective gazing balls, sits a mundane warehouse that is the… (Timothy McLaughlin / The Atlantic)

Timothy McLaughlin @TMclaughlin3

Recently made the drive to Bethlehem, PA to write about how IPVM, a niche surveillance industry publication, has become essential reading for China watchers with a string of scoops on Chinese surveillance in Xinjiang and beyond.

theatlantic.comThe Tech Site That Took On China’s Surveillance StateHow did a trade publisher in Pennsylvania become a principal source of investigative journalism on the repressive apparatus Beijing uses against the Uyghurs?

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