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A German satellite that will test new AI technologies in orbit for automatic detection of anomalies on planets and asteroids is set for launch. Despite its ambitious mission, the so-called SONATE-2 is a six-unit cubesat, a type of nanosatellite that’s no bigger than a shoebox. It was designed and built by a team led by aerospace engineer Professor Hakan Kayal from Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Germany. According to Kayal, projects of this sort are quite uncommon. “What is unique about our mission is that the AI is trained on board. Normally, this training is done on Earth with powerful computers,”… This story continues at The Next Web from The Next Web https://ift.tt/B4Fyxlw

For 14 years running, Iceland has topped the charts on gender balance. That’s not to say the Nordic nation has achieved full gender parity but that, by measure of the World Economic Forum, its gender gap is more than 90% closed. And it’s the only country in the Global Gender Gap Index to have achieved as much. The first Kvennafri or ‘Women’s Day Off’ was held in 1975. This year, on the anniversary of that original event, women across Iceland went on strike, including Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir. “We have not yet reached our goals of full gender equality and… This story continues at The Next Web from The Next Web https://ift.tt/yWqtLeH

While not yet as illustrious as its North American counterparts OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere, Europe’s own cohort of generative AI startups is beginning to crystallise. Just yesterday, news broke that Germany’s Aleph Alpha had raised €460mn, in one of the largest funding rounds ever for a European AI company.  The European tech community received news of the investment with some enthusiasm. While much focus has been on how the EU will regulate the tech (and how the UK will or will not), there hasn’t been a whole heap of attention on how the bloc will support artificial intelligence innovation and… This story continues at The Next Web from The Next Web https://ift.tt/erpRus7

A spacecraft that’s exploring the dark universe has released its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Named Euclid after the ancient Greek “father of geometry,” the satellite was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). Its mission: produce the world’s largest, most accurate 3D map of the universe — with time as the third dimension.  Over a six-year journey that launched in July, the €1bn probe will monitor more than a third of the sky and billions of galaxies. The observations will explore the influence of dark matter and dark energy on the formation of the universe. Together, these entities comprise 95% of our… This story continues at The Next Web from The Next Web https://ift.tt/qLgkOm7

News broke last month that the European Space Agency (ESA) had engaged SpaceX to launch four of Europe’s Galileo satellites into orbit in 2024. The decision to turn to Elon Musk’s US-based company comes in the wake of delays to Europe’s own Ariane 6 rockets, which mean the continent is without its own means to deliver large payloads into space. Though it’s only designed to bridge the gap in our current capabilities, it’s a disappointing development for Europe’s spacetech community. But one that, unfortunately, many of us saw coming.  Why Europe is falling behind in space  Europe is currently lagging… This story continues at The Next Web from The Next Web https://ift.tt/eFMcDCj

In times gone by, lawyers would spend hours poring over documents and huge amounts of time and energy on research. But for many of today’s law firms, those days are coming to an end. The landscape is being revolutionised, thanks to exciting new technology and automation. Artificial intelligence tools can now help shoulder the burden of the kind of work that drains lawyers’ time — from reviewing documents and due diligence checks, to drafting legal documents and carrying out legal research. In 2021, Oxford University estimated that around half of all solicitors in England and Wales were using at least… This story continues at The Next Web from The Next Web https://ift.tt/i6u9AnU

The Netherlands is building its own large language model (LLM) that seeks to provide a  “transparent, fair, and verifiable” alternative to AI chatbots like the immensely popular ChatGPT.  It seems that everyone and their dog is developing their own AI chatbot these days, from Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing Chat to the recently announced Grok, a new ChatGPT rival released by Elon Musk’s xAI company this week.  But as Silicon Valley pursues AI development behind closed doors, authorities are left in the dark as to whether these LLMs adhere to any sort of ethical standards. The EU has already warned… This story continues at The Next Web from The Next Web https://ift.tt/rkyZAwX