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• Company retreats can help combat the isolation of remote work and inspire colleagues' creativity.
• They can also promote team-building and provide networking opportunities outside the typical office.
• Experts told Business Insider how companies can plan a successful

• Peter Thiel has invested in an effort to create an Olympic Games that welcomes doping.
• The PayPal cofounder was one of several investors named Wednesday in the Enhanced Games.
• The Olympics prohibits

OpenAI released a study the company conducted on GPT-4’s effectiveness in creating a bioweapon on Wednesday. The company found that its AI poses “at most” a slight risk in helping someone produce a biological threat. There’s a lot of talk about AI accelerating our impending doom, but OpenAI wants you to know that…

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• A Houthi missile put a US destroyer's Close-In Weapon System to the test in a recent engagement.
• A warship's CIWS is usually considered its last line of defense

• Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by a Senate committee Wednesday over child safety on his platforms.
• In a striking moment, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley pushed Zuckerberg to face families whose kids were harmed.
• Zuckerberg was among the Big Tech CEOs at the

• A federal judge threw out a lawsuit brought by Disney against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
• Disney alleged that Florida retaliated against free speech by taking over the parks' local district.
• The federal suit was denied for lack of standing, but a separate case continues in the state courts.

A federal judge on Wednesday

During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate.

With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and replace one weight matrix with an approximate smaller one. Weights are the

Starlab Space’s forthcoming space station is so big and heavy that only the formidable SpaceX Starship megarocket can launch it into orbit, but the one-time delivery option comes with distinct benefits.

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• The US military destroyed a Houthi missile that posed a threat to a US aircraft on Wednesday.
• The surface-to-air missile was ready to launch from a position in Yemen, US Central Command said.
• It's the latest preemptive action taken by the US, which

It’s official: There will be no further attempts to salvage FTX. The once popular but now defunct crypto exchange that “misplaced” billions of dollars in user assets before collapsing in a heap of scandal is officially headed to the corporate graveyard.

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Rocket Lab kicked off the year with the launch and recovery of its Electron rocket as part of the company’s continued efforts to reuse its small launch vehicle’s first stage.

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• Majors was found guilty last month of a reckless, misdemeanor assault on his ex-girlfriend.
• Now, he wants a judge to permanently seal secret pre-trial proceedings concerning his private life.
• These records contain unauthenticated accusations the DA was