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Even though applications aren’t due until December, an avalanche of emails have already hit Naomi Saphra, a soon-to-be assistant professor of computer science at Boston University who’s currently finishing up research across town at Harvard University.
The messages are from people eager to join Saphra as BU doctoral students and contribute to her work on natural language processing, part of the bedrock of the AI revolution. Her decision is more complicated than it would’ve been a couple years ago: She’ll w
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The latest iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air models are equipped with Apple's all-new N1 chip for Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread connectivity. However, the chip has a Wi-Fi 7 bandwidth limitation. According to FCC documents reviewed by MacRumors, the N1 chip in all of the new iPhone models supports up to 160 MHz channel bandwidth for Wi-Fi 7, short of the standard's... Read more ›
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In case you missed it, Apple's event this week included another heartwarming video about the Apple Watch's genuine life-saving potential. The video is titled "Dear Apple," in reference to the emails the company receives from Apple Watch customers who were alerted to health conditions, or were helped by features like Emergency SOS and Crash Detection at critical moments. "Real people share how Apple Watch has changed and even helped save... Read more ›
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Did you forget 'The Strangers: Chapter 2' was coming out soon? This new look at the film sure hopes you doesn't! Read more ›
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Chinese censorship suffered a significant breach on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents had been dumped online. Read more ›
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The Washington Post notes that past research "indicates that exercise helps some cancer survivors avoid recurrence of their disease." But a new study "offers an explanation of how, showing that exercise changes the inner workings of our muscles and cells, although more study is still needed..." The study, published last month, involved 32 women who'd survived breast cancer. After a single session of interval training or weightlifting, their blood contained... Read more ›
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Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the masters of scare are expected to join Disneyland Hong Kong in the near future. Read more ›
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He said "the advent of AI and other technologies" made the workforce reduction a "simple problem" to solve. Read more ›
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Electric bikes are broadly designated as Class 1, 2, or 3. What class it is determines what’s legal to ride and where. Read more ›
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Legal experts said that fiscal disruption shouldn't hold merit for a case to be ruled as lawful or unlawful. Read more ›
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We moved our family from Colorado to New England. Starting over in a new place wasn't easy. Read more ›
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The Oath Keepers are apparently restarting, and extremist groups like the Proud Boys are calling for “state violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. Read more ›
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Searcha Page and Seek Ninja are a one-person operation that utilizes AI to deliver relevant search results without relying on Google. Read more ›
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"Freelance developers and entire companies are making a business out of fixing shoddy vibe coded software," writes 404 Media, interviewing one of the "dozens of people on Fiverr... now offering services specifically catering to people with shoddy vibe coded projects." Hamid Siddiqi, who offers to "review, fix your vibe code" on Fiverr, told the 404 Media that "Currently, I work with around 15-20 clients regularly, with additional one-off projects throughout... Read more ›
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When it comes to AI, as California goes, so goes the nation. The biggest state in the US by population is also the central hub of AI innovation for the entire globe, home to 32 of the world’s top 50 AI companies. That size and influence have given the Golden State the weight to become […] Read more ›
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Canadians and American border states used to go together like gravy on fried potatoes, but political tensions have halted Canadian tourism to the US. Read more ›
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The writer of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and 'Being John Malkovich' thinks we need to learn to be human again. Read more ›
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The Compact FanlessVC2300S DT ITX case will be sold in a limited-edition, completely copper version. Read more ›
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Microsoft is taking its biggest step to lessen reliance on OpenAI’s artificial intelligence by embracing the startup’s bitter rival Anthropic to power its most important software business. Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s technology for some AI features in Office 365 apps, according to two people involved in the effort. The move will blend Anthropic and OpenAI technology in the apps, after years in which Microsoft primarily used OpenAI for... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s main item, please check out my colleague Sri’s exclusive piece from Friday night revealing that OpenAI expects to burn $115 billion in cash through 2029, plus tons of other financial data the company has disclosed to investors. We are still having a hard time digesting the capital that cash burn will require the company to raise in the next five years! We will bring you... Read more ›
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Nvidia is stepping back from its nascent cloud computing business, which had put it in quasi-competition with Amazon Web Services. It has lessened its efforts to attract businesses to the cloud service, dubbed DGX Cloud, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation. Instead, Nvidia plans to primarily use the service, which consists of servers powered by its AI chips, for its own researchers, this person said. Employees use... Read more ›
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Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML has invested $1.5 billion in French artificial intelligence developer Mistral, valuing it at $11.7 billion, up from a $6 billion valuation last year, Reuters reported. ASML will be the startup’s biggest outside shareholder and will take a board seat, the ... Read more ›
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Perplexity, which runs an artificial intelligence-powered search engine, has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The new capital comes less than two months after the three-year-old ... Read more ›
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Physical Intelligence, a startup developing large artificial intelligence models to power robots, is in talks with investors to raise additional venture capital at a valuation of about $5 billion, according to two people who have recently spoken to the company. A financing at that valuation would more than double the price investors awarded the San Francisco startup in November. The company, founded in early 2024, is one of several startups... Read more ›
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Klarna is planning to price its initial public offer above its planned range of $35 to $37, according to a person familiar with the matter. At the top of the range, Klarna would have a market value of $14 billion, not including unvested employee shares. The plans have not been previously ... Read more ›
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Earlier this summer, chatter in AI communities went into overdrive after OpenAI and Google revealed that their models had achieved gold medal-level performance on the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past, this competition had proved difficult for AI models, which struggled to verify whether their generated math proofs were correct without special software.This time around, though, researchers from OpenAI and Google hinted that the techniques they had used to... Read more ›
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Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their artificial intelligence models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia, according to four people with direct knowledge of the moves. The move is the latest sign that a decoupling of Chinese AI development from the Western semiconductor ecosystem is underway. Until recently Chinese firms were entirely dependent on Nvidia chips for most... Read more ›
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We got big news this afternoon from the folks at OpenAI and Microsoft: They are close to a peace deal. Yes, after nearly a year of talks over changes to their partnership, the companies announced they had signed a “non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of our partnership.” Contractual terms now have to be finalized. Hmmm. That sounds like a deal you have when you don’t really have... Read more ›
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