Welcome back to In the Loop, new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox? When you think about the top echelon of the world's tech elites, Larry Ellison probably doesn't spring to mind. But on Wednesday, the 81-year-old chairman of Oracle briefly became the richest person in the world with a net worth of almost $400 billion, overtaking Elon Musk. Ellison's $100-billion jump was the biggest single-day gain ever, and the result of a promising Oracle growth forecast in which they advertised hundreds of billions of dollars in inbound revenue from AI companies using Oracle's cloud computing capabilities.

Last night, X's "For You" algorithm offered me up what felt like a dispatch from an alternate universe. It was a post from Elon Musk, originally published hours earlier. "This is the first time humans have been in orbit around the poles of the Earth!" he wrote. Underneath his post was a video shared by SpaceX--footage of craggy ice caps, taken by the company's Dragon spacecraft during a private mission. Taken on its own, the video is genuinely captivating.

Since declaring his support for Donald Trump in July of last year and subsequently spending more than 250m on his re-election effort, Elon Musk has rapidly accumulated political influence and positioned himself at the heart of the new administration. Now as prominent as the president himself, Musk has begun to make use of that power, making decisions that could affect the health of millions of people, gaining access to highly sensitive personal data, and attacking anyone who opposes him. Musk, the world's richest man and an unelected official, has achieved an astonishing level of power over the federal government. Over the weekend, workers with Musk's "department of government efficiency" (Doge) clashed with civil servants over demands for unfettered access to the computer systems of major US government agencies in a breakneck series of confrontations. When the dust settled, several top officials who opposed the takeover had been pushed out, and Musk's allies had gained control. Musk, with the backing of Trump, is now working to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAid) – the world's largest single supplier of humanitarian aid.

Current automated fact-checking (AFC) approaches commonly evaluate evidence either implicitly via the predicted verdicts or by comparing retrieved evidence with a predefined closed knowledge source, such as Wikipedia. However, these methods suffer from limitations, resulting from their reliance on evaluation metrics developed for different purposes and constraints imposed by closed knowledge sources. Recent advances in natural language generation (NLG) evaluation offer new possibilities for evidence assessment. In this work, we introduce Ev2R, an evaluation framework for AFC that comprises three types of approaches for evidence evaluation: reference-based, proxy-reference, and reference-less. We evaluate their effectiveness through agreement with human ratings and adversarial tests, and demonstrate that prompt-based scorers, particularly those leveraging LLMs and reference evidence, outperform traditional evaluation approaches.

Come check out the highlights of the week with Showmetech TRIO! We will also talk about the changes that Elon Musk did in his early days as owner of the Twitter. In addition, we compared the cameras of the Galaxy S22 Ultra and Google Pixel 7 Pro, great highlights of the Google e Samsung for the year 2022. Come check out the highlights of the week with the Showmetech TRIO! Officialized on October 27, 2022, the purchase of Twitter finally had an ending: Elon Musk finally is the owner of the social network. Despite having many chapters that include a process in court and even withdrawal by Musk, we can finally announce that yes, the owner of Tesla also owns Twitter.

Bill Gates stopped working full-time at Microsoft in 2008 and stepped down as chairman in 2014. Over the course of nearly two decades, Gates has shifted his focus from personal computers to philanthropy. Yet despite easing his workload at Microsoft and his dedication to giving away money, Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. As of Nov. 16, Gates has a net worth of $110 billion, according to Bloomberg. Gates narrowly unseated Amazon head Jeff Bezos, who's worth approx.

Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, has added another $20 billion (£14 billion) to his wealth after his firm Amazon reported its largest ever surge in profits. Amazon sales increased by 38 per cent in the last three months of 2017, to more than $60.5 billion (£42.4 billion), according to its latest quarterly financial results. For comparison, it took Amazon more than 14 years to make, cumulatively, as much profit as it did in the latest quarter alone. The profits were driven by sales of its voice-activated Echo devices and an increase in the number of Prime members. They were also helped by an increase in holiday shopping online and by Amazon's cloud business, Amazon Web Services.

Musk will become planet's richest man if he turns Tesla into a $650bn business in a decade Tue 23 Jan 2018 10.39 EST Last modified on Tue 23 Jan 2018 11.04 EST Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of electric car company Tesla, would smash all pay records and become the richest man in the world if an extraordinarily ambitious new incentive scheme pays out. The 46-year-old entrepreneur, who is already a multi-billionaire, has agreed to work unpaid for the next 10 years – after which he would collect an unprecedented $55.8bn (£40bn) bonus if builds the 14-year-old business into a $650bn company within a decade. He was catapulted into the ranks of the super-rich with the sale of PayPal to eBay, which netted him $165m • In 2002, he used $100m to found SpaceX, which aims to cut the cost of space travel through technology such as reusable rockets. One of Musk's ultimate goals is to pioneer efforts to colonise Mars. Tesla has focused on building a vehicle with mass market appeal.

The battle for the title of'world's richest man' has taken a fresh twist. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, 53, may have pipped Bill Gates, 61, to the title after he added $6.5 billion (£5 billion) to his vast fortune yesterday. The jump came thanks to soaring Amazon share prices after its third quarterly earnings report beat expectations. Bezos now has a net worth of $90 billion (£69 billion), based on data from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Microsoft founder Gates still held the title at the market's close yesterday, with a net worth of $88 billion (£67 billion), according to the index.

Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba Group, speaks with reporters following his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower, January 9, 2017 in New York City. Alibaba on Wednesday unveiled a new AI-powered smart speaker due to hit the market in August. It appears the richest man in Asia does not have time to spend all those earnings. This week, Bloomberg published a video interview with Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, in which he made it clear he doesn't use his time by going on shopping sprees. "I don't have time to spend money," he said.