CryptoNews

OFAC's Sanction Bucket Grows: BTC, TRX, and ETH Addresses Flagged Over Fentanyl Ties – Bitcoin News

October 7, 2023
The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) under the Treasury has released an updated version of the specially designated nationals (SDN) list, featuring multiple alleged fentanyl traffickers from China along with their associated cryptocurrency addresses. These highlighted crypto addresses are connected to decentralized networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron. OFAC Targets Chinese Fentanyl…
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DefenseNews

What’s the firepower like for the Army’s new rifle?

October 6, 2023
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The Army’s new rifle, automatic rifle and fire control provide a more accurate, farther reaching and deadlier combination of weapons than a squad or platoon currently carries. During a September media event held at Aberdeen Proving Ground…
AI & RoboticsNews

Nucleus AI emerges with 22B LLM model to transform agriculture

October 6, 2023
California-based Nucleus AI, a four-member startup with talent from Amazon and Samsung Research, today emerged from stealth with the launch of its first product: a 22-billion-parameter large language model (LLM). Available under an open-source MIT license and commercial license, the general-purpose model sits between 13B and 34B segments and can be fine-tuned for different generation tasks and…
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DefenseNews

How Australia’s strategic review is changing Army acquisition plans

October 6, 2023
MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Army will now receive less Redback infantry fighting vehicles than planned as the government redirects funding for that effort toward long-range strike systems and littoral maneuver craft. The government’s recent Defence Strategic Review recommended the Army pivot from a “balanced” structure of equally equipped combined arms brigades to a “focused”…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Atropos Health leverages AI to democratize access to real-world evidence in healthcare

October 6, 2023
Atropos Health, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based healthcare startup, unveiled today a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that could revolutionize how evidence is produced to inform medical decisions and research.  The startup’s Geneva Operating System (OS) leverages natural language processing and generative AI to rapidly query real-world clinical data. This allows users without technical…
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