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• Malia Obama made her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with the short film "The Heart."
• She's credited as Malia Ann, presumably in a bid to distance herself from her ex-president dad.
• The film received uncomplimentary reviews, with nepotism

• Terry Jones has been a franchisee of Jack in the Box restaurants for nearly 37 years.
• He spoke to Business Insider about the surprising parts of being a franchise owner.
• Buying a franchise restaurant is more expensive than you might expect, he said.

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An appeals court has blocked a $1 billion copyright verdict from 2019 against US internet service provider Cox Communications and ordered a retrial, Arts Technica has reported. A three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Cox didn't profit directly from its users' piracy, rebutting claims from Sony, Universal and Warner. 

The judges did affirm the original jury's finding of willful contributory

• Elon Musk might have been inspired by Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot, its founder said. 
• Marc Raibert suggested that Musk's ambitions for Tesla's Optimus are driven by its robot Atlas.
• Raibert made the comments on an episode of Lex Fridman's podcast last week. 

Elon Musk’s humanoid robotics dream might have been inspired by Boston Dynamics — the

Google has released an open AI model called Gemma, which it says is created using the same research and technology that was used to build its Gemini AI models. The company says Gemma is its contribution to the open community and is meant to help developers "in building AI responsibly." As such, it also introduced the Responsible Generative AI Toolkit alongside Gemma. It contains a debugging tool

Google has released Gemma 2B and 7B, a pair of open-source AI models that let developers use the research that went into its flagship Gemini more freely. While Gemini is a big closed AI model that directly competes with (and is nearly as powerful as) OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the lightweight Gemma will likely be suitable for smaller tasks

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Meet Gemma, Google's open-source AI model.

On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of models to "assist developers and researchers in building AI responsibly." Gemma is built from the same research and technology used to create Gemini, its closed-source models that powers the Gemini chatbot (formerly Bard) and AI-related tools for Workspace (formerly Duet AI).

Will Gemma push Google ahead of

• United Airlines' CFO said the airline is "deeply disappointed" in Boeing due to delays, per Reuters.
• It is reportedly looking to buy more Airbus jets due to delays for the 737 Max 10.
• Ryanair's CEO also said Boeing's management "doesn't appear to have a grip on the situation."

Airlines are getting frustrated with Boeing due to