TikTok's parent company wants to cure your diseases now, too

https://worldbriefly.news/tiktoks-parent-company-wants-to-cure-your-diseases-now-too

#ByteDance #AIdrugDiscovery #PharmaceuticalInnovation

RT @HowToAI_: ByteDance hat eine Publikation veröffentlicht, die jeden NVIDIA-Aktionisten ins Schwitzen bringen sollte. Sie trainierten eine KI, die CUDA-Code besser als menschliche Experten schreiben kann. Das System nennt sich „CUDA Agent“. Es verändert die Wirtschaftlichkeit der AI-Hardware grundlegend. Sie bauten eine massive agentic Reinforcement-Learning-Schleife. Die KI schreibt einen Kernel, kompiliert ihn, profiliert die Hardware, analysiert Engpässe und schreibt den Code so lange um, bis er makellos ist. Sie lernte, wie man Speicherzugriffsmuster und Hardware-Tiling-Strategien optimiert, die traditionelle Compiler übersehen. Die Ergebnisse sind verblüffend. Auf dem branchenüblichen Benchmark „KernelBench“ schlug CUDA Agent traditionelle Compiler vollständig. Der generierte Code lief bis zu 3,2-mal schneller als die native Ausführung von PyTorch. Bei den schwierigsten und komplexesten Modellen schlug es die stärksten proprietären Modelle der Welt – darunter Claude Opus 4.5 und Gemini 3 Pro – um 40 %. Es ging nicht nur an die Leistung menschlicher Experten heran, sondern entdeckte auch Optimierungen, die statische Compiler buchstäblich nicht sehen können. Hier ist der Grund, warum dies eine massive Bedrohung für NVIDIA darstellt. Die Dominanz von NVIDIA beruht darauf, dass CUDA unglaublich schwer zu meistern ist. Entwickler sind gebunden, weil die Optimierung von Code für andere Chips zu schmerzhaft ist. Doch wenn ein KI-Agent autonom hyper-optimierte Hardware-Kernels generieren kann... muss man kein Team aus CUDA-Ingenieuren mit einem Gehalt von 500.000 Dollar pro Jahr aufbauen,…

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#AI #ByteDance #CUDA #MachineLearning #NVIDIA #TechNews #arint_info

https://x.com/HowToAI_/status/2062105627204423994#m

Érkezik a TikTok-autó, közös márkát indít a Seres és a ByteDance

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://villanyautosok.hu/2026/06/03/erkezik-a-tiktok-auto-kozos-markat-indit-a-seres-es-a-bytedance/

Agi: Troppe tasse, in Cina si vendono meno preservativi

AGI - Troppe tasse, e così in Cina le vendite dei preservativi Durex vanno giù. Pechino ha infatti abolito un'esenzione fiscale in vigore da tempo su questi prodotti inasprendo contemporaneamente le restrizioni sulla loro commercializzazione.
Il Governo vuole in questo modo rilanciare una vasta campagna per favorire la natalità. Nel dettaglio, secondo le stime elaborate da Jefferies sulla base dei dati finanziari dell'azienda e riportati dal Financial Times, le vendite del marchio leader nel settore dei preservativi in Cina, di proprietà del gruppo di beni di consumo Reckitt, sono diminuite del 5% nel Paese durante il primo trimestre. Ciò ha segnato un drastico rallentamento rispetto alla crescita delle vendite dello scorso anno, che in Cina aveva superato addirittura il 40%.
Secondo gli analisti, l'inversione di tendenza è dovuta in gran parte alle nuove norme le quali hanno indotto la piattaforma di social commerce dominante in Cina, Douyin, di proprietà di ByteDance (la società madre di TikTok), a vietare la commercializzazione di preservativi tramite live streaming.
Effetti fiscali e aumento dei prezzi
Per di più, all'inizio dell'anno è stata abolita l'esenzione dall'IVA sui preservativi che era in vigore dal 1993. E così i contraccettivi sono ora soggetti a un'aliquota IVA del 13%. Durex potrebbe subire ulteriori pressioni a causa delle ripercussioni economiche della chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz. La tensione nel Golfo ha già indotto la malese Karex, che produce circa un quinto dei preservativi mondiali, ad aumentare i prezzi fino al 30% a causa dell'impennata dei costi di produzione. E anche per la Durex sarà inevitabile rialzare i prezzi, scoraggiando così ulteriormente i consumi.
Crisi demografica in Cina
Vero che il Paese del Dragone sta vivendo una crisi demografica senza precedenti, dal momento che il tasso di natalità è sceso lo scorso anno ai minimi storici: 7,92 milioni di nascite, meno della metà rispetto al 2015.
Le politiche del Governo
Già da diversi anni il Governo ha abbandonato la politica del figlio unico invitando invece le coppie ad avere tre figli. Ad esempio lo scorso anno sono stati introdotti sussidi statali per i genitori di bambini piccoli, grazie ai quali le famiglie ricevono l'equivalente di 531 dollari all'anno per ogni figlio di età inferiore ai tre anni. E ora il Governo ha preso di 'mira' i contraccettivi.

Too many taxes, fewer condoms are sold in China.

AGI - Too many taxes, and so sales of Durex condoms are down in China. Beijing has indeed abolished a tax exemption that had been in place for some time on these products, simultaneously tightening restrictions on their marketing.
The Government wants to relaunch a wide campaign to encourage birth rates. In detail, according to estimates prepared by Jefferies based on the company’s financial data and reported by the Financial Times, sales of the leading brand in the condom sector in China, owned by the Reckitt consumer goods group, fell by 5% in the country during the first quarter. This marked a sharp slowdown compared to last year’s sales growth, which in China had even exceeded 40%.
According to analysts, the reversal of the trend is largely due to the new regulations, which have led the dominant social commerce platform in China, Douyin, owned by ByteDance (the parent company of TikTok), to ban the marketing of condoms via live streaming.
Tax effects and price increases
Furthermore, at the beginning of the year, the exemption from VAT on condoms, which had been in place since 1993, was abolished. And so contraceptives are now subject to a 13% VAT rate. Durex could face further pressure due to the economic repercussions of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The tension in the Gulf has already prompted Malaysian Karex, which produces about a fifth of the world’s condoms, to increase prices by up to 30% due to the surge in production costs. And for Durex, it will inevitably be necessary to raise prices, thus further discouraging consumption.
Demographic crisis in China
It is true that the Dragon Country is experiencing an unprecedented demographic crisis, as the birth rate has fallen last year to historic lows: 7.92 million births, less than half compared to 2015.
The Government’s policies
For several years the Government has abandoned the one-child policy, instead inviting couples to have three children. For example, last year, state subsidies were introduced for parents of young children, thanks to which families receive the equivalent of $531 per year for each child under the age of three. And now the Government has turned its attention to contraceptives.

#China #Durex #Beijing #Jefferies #theFinancialTimes #Reckitt #Douyin #ByteDance #TikTok #theStraitofHormuz #Malaysian #Karex #upto30% #Government

https://www.agi.it/economia/news/2026-05-30/preservativi-tasse-cina-37306539/

Adnkronos - ultimoratop: Famiglia nel bosco, la madre sulla separazione dai figli: "Momento traumatico ma rimarremo in Italia"

(Adnkronos) - Catherine Birmingham parla dell'incontro di giovedì scorso: "Continuano a chiedere quando possono tornare a casa"

A flower, but one of evil: in the documentary on Cantona, the focus remains on the man.

There’s something dark and beautiful about the film about Manchester United’s five seasons with the French football legend. It’s not just the story of an artist-champion and at times a thug who arrives in Manchester and wins; instead of rhetoric about sacrifice and discipline, the directors preferred the story of the man through the people who tried to understand him, returning his figure in a more human form.

YouTube will automatically detect videos generated by AI.

YouTube, owned by Google, will automatically detect AI-generated content and flag it for users on the platform, the company announced Wednesday.

This decision reverses the previous policy that required video creators to self-report the use of generative AI tools.

“If a creator does not specify whether they used AI, but our systems detect significant use of photorealistic AI, we will automatically apply a label,” YouTube stated in a post.

The platform’s latest efforts regarding generative AI stem from 2024, when it asked creators to report content in which they had used this technology.

Since then, significant progress has been made in the production of photorealistic images and videos, with widely available AI models such as Google’s Veo 3.1 and Bytedance’s Seedance.

Creators will be able to dispute new flags if they believe their content was unfairly labeled as AI-generated, YouTube clarified.

The platform added that the flags will have no impact on its video recommendation algorithm for users.

Among other platforms and social networks that have recently introduced the automatic flagging of AI-generated content is Spotify, the music streaming service.

Many online spaces are flooded with images, videos, or audio generated by AI, which are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from human creations as the tools become more sophisticated.

#YouTube #Google #Bytedance’sSeedance #Spotify

https://www.agi.it/economia/news/2026-05-27/youtube-ia-contenuti-video-37261896/