🩸 Consequences

The Theranos saga comes to an end today

May 30, 2023

IN THIS ISSUE 🩸 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes reports to prison today 💻 NVIDIA's new supercomputer aims to democratize programming 🛸 NASA's new UFO task force will live stream its first meeting

UP FIRST Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is expected to report to prison today The one-time darling of Silicon Valley was convicted of fraud in 2022 The disgraced tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes is expected to report to prison this week to begin serving her lengthy sentence.   Holmes was convicted by a California court in 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors over failed blood-testing technology, and in November was sentenced to just over 11 years in jail.   The case centered on Theranos, a startup Holmes founded after dropping out of Stanford at 19 years old. It claimed to have created a groundbreaking technology that could conduct hundreds of health tests on a single drop of blood, but it didn't work as described.   Holmes, too, attracted much attention for her unique style, distinctive voice, and penchant for wearing Steve Jobs-like black turtlenecks.   Theranos succeeded in attracting prominent backers such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.   When she was sentenced, Holmes and her former business partner Sunny Balwani were also ordered to pay $452 million to dozens of high-profile investors whom they defrauded through the startup. Read more

SUPERCOMPUTERS Nvidia unveils new AI supercomputer, promises to democratize coding Soon, anyone will be able to code by speaking to generative AI Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that powerful generative AI technology means that soon anyone will be able to code simply by speaking to a computer.   Huang made the remarks during his keynote speech at the Computex forum in Taiwan on Monday, CNBC reported.   It means that the days of sweating over complicated code could soon be over, with AI technology similar to OpenAI's hugely popular ChatGPT chatbot doing all of the hard work by converting programmers' prompts into code.   At the event in Taipei, Huang introduced a new AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200, which he says will help build new, more powerful generative AI models.   "This computer doesn't care how you program it, it will try to understand what you mean because it has this incredible large language model capability," Nvidia's CEO said, claiming that the programming barrier will be "incredibly low."   Huang added: "We have closed the digital divide. Everyone is a programmer. Now, you just have to say something to the computer." Read more

ON THE HORIZON NASA's new UFO task force will hold its first official meeting tomorrow The meeting will be streamed online and available to the public NASA's independent study team tasked with getting a better handle on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) is about to hold its first public meeting.   The space agency defines UAP as "events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena."   Interested folks can watch a live stream of the gathering on NASA TV from 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday.   The meeting will feature final deliberations before the publication of a report by the study team this summer.   The team, which includes a former NASA astronaut and experts from academia and the aerospace and aviation industries, was set up last year to analyze UAP from a scientific perspective and to create a plan for "how to use data and the tools of science to move our understanding of UAP forward." NASA added that "there is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin."   So if you're hoping for talk of alien visitors during the meeting, you may be disappointed. Read more

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