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'Magic: The Gathering' publisher Wizards of the Coast sent the Pinkertons after a leaker
When a highly anticipated set of Magic: The Gathering cards leaked on YouTube last week, it's hard to imagine anyone would have guessed the incident would end with the involvement of one of the most infamous private security firms in the world. But that's exactly what happened after YouTuber Oldschoolmtg uploaded an unboxing video featuring a collection of March of the Machine: The Aftermath booster packs. If you're not familiar, Aftermath is an upcoming 50-card Magic: The Gathering set Wizards of the Coast will release on May 12th. It's billed as a supplement to the game's current March of the Machine expansion, which has been available since April 21st. Predictably, Oldschoolmtg's unboxing video was all anyone in the Magic: The Gathering community could talk about in recent days.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquires Canadian artificial intelligence start-up
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, has purchased Canadian artificial intelligence start-up Meta, which uses A.I. to read and comprehend scientific papers and then provide insights to researchers, as part of its mission to eradicate disease around the world. Meta capabilities will be unified in a tool made available for free to scientists. Meta co-founder and chief executive Sam Molyneux said in a statement, "We are very excited about what lies ahead." The start-up now joins an organization started by Zuckerberg and his wife, which in September, pledged $3 billion over the next decade in an effort to end all disease, pouring some of the Facebook founder's fortune into innovative research to meet the goal. "This is a big goal," said Zuckerberg at a San Francisco event where he announced the effort of the philanthropic organization established by Mark and his wife in 2015.
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquires AI startup Meta, will offer its services for free
The Chan Zuckerberg Inititative, a philanthropic initiative from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, has acquired a startup, Meta, focused on using AI and machine learning to sift through recently published scientific studies. The terms of the acquisition were undisclosed. Announced in September, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a limited liability company focused on the ambitious goal to "cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century." At least $3 billion will be allocated toward that goal, all coming out of Chan and Zuckerberg's Facebook shares. "In science, peer-reviewed articles are the medium for the global conversation among researchers, and they represent the foundational reference point by which we judge what is known, where science is going, and what to work on next," Meta CEO Sam Molyneux, who cofounded the startup with his sister Amy, wrote in a blog post announcing the acquisition. Each day, more than 4,000 scientific papers are published in biomedicine alone.