Q&A with Dr. Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, on generative AI in medicine, privacy risks, responsible deployment, and more (Jo Craven McGinty/Wall Street Journal)

Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Dr. Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, on generative AI in medicine, privacy risks, responsible deployment, and more  —  The dean of Stanford University's medical school thinks artificial intelligence will transform the medicines you take, the care you get and the training of doctors

IIT-Delhi researchers achieve breakthrough in quantum communication

Researchers at IIT-Delhi have made a breakthrough in secure quantum communication, achieving a distance of 380km with a low error rate. The achievement is significant for securing financial transactions and secret codes. The findings were published in the "Nature Scientific Reports" journal. This development is expected to revolutionize cyber security and make digital transactions safer. The researchers believe this will lead to the commercial production of long-distance secure quantum key devices. https://ift.tt/zaRNSAE

Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release true AR glasses in 2025 and a cheaper Quest (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release true AR glasses in 2025 and a cheaper Quest  —  Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 haven't even been released yet, but the two companies are already deep into work on follow-up products.

One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud between January 2021-June 2023 said it started on social media, resulting in losses worth $2.7B (Emma Fletcher/Federal Trade Commission)

Emma Fletcher / Federal Trade Commission:
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud between January 2021-June 2023 said it started on social media, resulting in losses worth $2.7B  —  Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.

The UK FCA plans to name firms violating its crypto promotion rules, which will be widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
The UK FCA plans to name firms violating its crypto promotion rules, which will be widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location  —  - Watchdog will add firms to warning list starting on Sunday  —  The UK's Financial Conduct Authority will move fast to name …

A research paper details how decomposing groups of neurons in a neural network into interpretable "features" may improve safety by enabling monitoring of LLMs (Anthropic)

Anthropic:
A research paper details how decomposing groups of neurons in a neural network into interpretable “features” may improve safety by enabling monitoring of LLMs  —  Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules.  With each step of training …