Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
NO.1 Apple announces product launch event on September 10th, with the debut of the first AI iPhone
On Monday local time, Apple officially announced that it will hold a special event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California at 1am Beijing time on September 10th, with the theme of "It's Glowtime". This press conference is expected to release the latest iPhone, Watch, and AirPods. The focus of this press conference is expected to be Apple Intelligence, an artificial intelligence tool that will be integrated into all new iPhones.
Comment: This will bring users a more personalized and intelligent experience, marking Apple's continuous innovation and leading position in the field of smartphones.
Countdown to the first human commercial spacewalk, SpaceX spacecraft scheduled to launch on Tuesday
According to the schedule released on SpaceX's official website, the company plans to launch the Falcon 9 carrier rocket into low Earth orbit at 3:38am Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 27th, from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, to send the crew of the North Star Dawn spacecraft into space for a mission. Musk referred to the mission as an 'epic feat' earlier this month.
Comment: This marks a new height in commercial space exploration and demonstrates humanity's ambitious pursuit of continuous exploration and utilization of space.
AI programming assistant cursor raises $60 million in funding
AI programming assistant cursor recently announced that it has completed a Series A financing worth $60 million, bringing the company's valuation to $400 million. It is reported that the founders of Stripe and Github also participated in this round of financing. Cursor is an AI programming assistant that is widely recognized in the industry, with the goal of automating 95% of the code written by engineers today. The company's customer base also includes well-known large enterprises such as Midjourney, Perplexity, Shopify, and OpenAI.
Comment: The successful Series A financing of cursor not only highlights the enormous potential of AI in the programming field, but also indicates that automated programming tools are rapidly becoming a key factor in improving development efficiency and innovation.
AlphaSeq, the world's largest protein-protein interaction dataset, has appeared
Recently, startup A-Alpha Bio released the AlphaSeq database, which focuses on protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and contains over 750 million measurement results, making it the world's largest PPI dataset. Based on AlphaSeq data, the trained AlphaBind model can accurately predict protein sequences with different binding characteristics (affinity, specificity, cross reactivity, epitopes, etc.), thereby assisting protein design or discovering novel proteins.
Comment: This opens up new prospects for protein design and discovery of new proteins.
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