Samsung’s smart fridges will use AI to suggest groceries to buy on Instacart

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1. Samsung’s smart fridges will use AI to suggest groceries to buy on Instacart

Samsung has announced a multiyear partnership with Instacart to enable customers to shop for groceries from their Samsung Bespoke fridges. The technology uses Samsung Vision AI food recognition technology to identify items in the fridge and suggest them to the service.

The service uses "AI Vision Inside" on Samsung's fridges, which can recognize up to 37 food items. The integration will be available later this year via a firmware update to models with the AI Vision Inside.

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2. Farming With AI

AI is being applied to farming by agricultural and environmental technology specialists like Trapview, Carbon Robotics, and CropX. AI is trained on data about weather, climate, insects, soil conditions, feed stores, and historic crop yields to provide farmers with insights into planting and irrigating, warning them of impending infestations and natural disasters.

This helps address global food security, hunger, nutrition, and sustainable production issues. Trapview, a Slovenian company, uses AI to identify destructive insects and provide insights on when to plant and irrigate, enabling farmers to make informed decisions about their crops.

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3. Evolution journal editors resign en masse

Elsevier's Journal of Human Evolution has seen its editorial board resign due to controversial changes in business models. The board cited changes such as eliminating support for a copy editor and special issues editor, reducing the number of associate editors, and creating a third-tier editorial board.

The board also criticized Elsevier's use of AI during production without informing the board, resulting in style and formatting errors. The journal's author page charges are significantly higher than other for-profit journals and open access journals, causing criticism.

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4. A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately

Researchers at MIT have developed a computational technique that allows large language models to predict antibody structures more accurately. This could help researchers identify potential antibodies for treating infectious diseases like SARS-CoV-2.

The technique focuses on modeling the hypervariable regions of antibodies and holds potential for analyzing entire antibody repertoires from individual people. This could be useful for studying the immune response of super-response individuals to diseases like HIV. The technique could help prevent drug companies from going into clinical trials with the wrong products, saving money.

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5. AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives

AI bots are generating a surge of hyper-personalized phishing scams, making advanced cyber crime easier. Leading companies like Beazley and eBay warn of the rise of fraudulent emails containing personal details, likely obtained through AI analysis of online profiles.

Cybersecurity experts believe AI is behind the increasing attacks, as tech companies race to create sophisticated systems and launch popular products. AI bots can quickly ingest large amounts of data about a company or individual, and scrape a victim's online presence and social media activity.

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