Week In Tech: Would You Rather Live in a World with No Privacy or No Crime?

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Should LLMs monitor crime? This week, Oz tells us why the US pharmaceutical industry may have competition… and why we’ve yet to see a flood of new products from AI drug discovery companies. Then, Karah explains how a telecommunications company is feeding recordings of inmate phone calls into LLMs that can then monitor future calls for planned crimes. Also, the UK government wants to cross-reference CCTV footage with the passport photo database, there’s a new self-made female billionaire in town — the youngest yet — and the newest billion dollar company sells blueberries the size of golf balls. And then, on Chat and Me, a deep fake interview has international consequences.

ADDITIONAL READING:

• Art Basel show by Beeple has realistic Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg robot dogs pooping NFTs | Page Six
• Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs? | Financial Times
• Will the next blockbuster drug come from China? | Financial Times
• An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls | MIT Technology Review
• Live facial recognition cameras planned for every town centre | Telegraph
• Kalshi’s Cofounder Is Now World’s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire | Forbes
• Ray Dalio is backing a $1 billion blueberry unicorn that sells berries nearly the size of golf balls | Fortune

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