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🔆 Midsummer Special: AI x Music 🎶
How music can heal the heart, the controversial EU Chat Control Law and Microsoft overtaken as the world's most valuable company
Sarah, Emma and Allegra at Lumiera.ai
June 20, 2024
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🗞️ Issue 23 // ⏱️ Read Time: 8 min
Hello 👋
With a couple of Scandinavians in team Lumiera, we are counting down the days to Midsummer. This is the time when the sun never sets, and it’s celebrated with flower wreaths, schnapps, pickled herring and… music! This is the simple reason for our focus on melodies, rhythms, tempo and harmonies this week.
In this week's newsletter
What we’re talking about: Music, the impact it has on our hearts, and the way that technology is helping us figure out the connection between the two.
How it’s relevant: Cardiologists & scientists are pushing science forward by modelling how music affects the cardiovascular and autonomic nervous system.
Why it matters: By understanding the impact music has on our bodies, we can come up with solutions that make people feel or get better.
Big tech news of the week…
⚖️ EU Chat Control 2.0 The purpose of this regulation is to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online. It would oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content, which would essentially break encryption by eroding user security and data privacy.
🧱 Utilising machine learning models and satellite imagery, Amazon Mining Watch can now monitor and detect mining activities, something that can be used to curb environmental destruction. Improvements include yearly assessments of mining activity in the Amazon basin from 2018–2023 and higher detection precision, estimated at 99.6% on a random sample of 2023 detections.
🏆 NVIDIA is now the world’s most valuable company, taking over the first place from Microsoft. The discussion about whether this is part of a bubble, and whether and when this bubble will burst, is going warm.