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A year to the day after she was fired from Google, Timnit Gebru has unveiled plans to wrench AI research out of big tech’s grasp. Gebru, a former co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team, on Thursday launched an independent lab: the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Armed with an initial budget of $3.7 million raised from foundations, DAIR will focus on long-term and community-based research — which can be hard to do in Silicon Valley. “The incentive structures in industry and elite academic institutions
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to adapt to specific enterprise use cases and complex workflows. However, optimizing these skills is a slow process and faulty process, as they cannot be trained in the same way as the parameters of the underlying AI model.... Read more ›
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Pixar just dropped the first trailer for Gatto, a hand-painted animated film about a mob-indebted black cat navigating the superstitious streets of Venice, Italy. Read more ›
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A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician. Read more ›
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Researchers tested their newly discovered peptide against the one antibiotic resistant bacteria. Only about one in every hundred million survived to pass on genetic resistance. Read more ›
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New study reveals hybrid meetings can isolate remote workers due to outdated technology and meeting fatigue. Read more ›
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As one of the largest travel markets continues to shrink due to political tensions, Canadian carriers told Skift that U.S. travel is still producing healthy margins. Read more ›
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From a wet winter in the Southwest to fewer Atlantic hurricanes, this is what to expect as a potential super El Niño takes shape. Read more ›
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Cash App Mobile gives select users a $40 unlimited 5G phone plan with talk, text, hotspot data, and AT&T network coverage built into the app. Read more ›
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When it comes to physics, AI seems to be as bound by prior biases as human scientists. Read more ›
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В этой статье я расскажу, на какие подводные камни я споткнулся при разработке своего пет‑проекта — мониторинга сайтов на Golang, аналог UptimeRobot. Начнем издалека... Я хотел разработать пет‑проект, но не банальный todolist, а что‑то свежее, интересное в плане архитектуры и реализации. Шерстя по просторам интернета, я наткнулся на UptimeRobot — сервис для мониторинга сайтов. Азарт и любопытство взяли верх и я начал продумывать, как буду разрабатывать «свой» UptimeRobot. Думал —... Read more ›
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'Luca' director Enrico Casarosa returns with another Italy-set tale, hitting theaters March 5, 2027. Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Reason: Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he is now suing the officers and agencies who put him through it. [...] According to a police report, facial recognition software concluded with... Read more ›
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I've used the Samsung Galaxy A57 and S26 Ultra — here are four features of the latter that I hope come to the former soon. Read more ›
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Starting with iOS 27, the virtual Apple TV remote can be added to the iPhone's Home Screen again, rather than being limited to Control Center. To do so, swipe down on the Home Screen and search for "remote." Next, tap and hold on the Remote app and drag it to your Home Screen. Alternatively, you can find it in the App Library. Apple used to offer an Apple TV Remote... Read more ›
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OpenAI says it has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts it believes are operating from China, and that used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting U.S. tech and policy debates. Read more ›
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When Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy and CFO Brian Robins face Wall Street analysts on quarterly earnings calls nowadays, they’re armed with material from an internally developed AI agent. The agent tells the two executives the questions they’re expecting the analysts to ask and provides suggested answers.The agent prepares that material in minutes, automating a process that used to take Snowflake staffers several weeks, according to Anahita Tafvizi, the company’s chief... Read more ›
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Upwind just dropped a new product announcement today, and it signals a fundamental shift in how the company thinks about AI risk. CEO Amiram Shachar published a lengthy post this morning laying out Upwind’s “Security for AI” thesis, the companion piece to their earlier push around agentic AI capabilities. The core argument is simple: AI security isn’t a standalone product […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The scenario Anthropic is worried about is one where the technology stops waiting for permission. On Thursday the company argued that frontier AI developers should build a coordinated, verifiable mechanism to slow down or temporarily pause development if advanced systems begin improving themselves faster than society can manage the consequences. The proposal is less a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia’s chief executive arrived for a four-day visit pitching robotics and physical AI, and looking past the memory chips that already bind the company to Korea. Jensen Huang made the pitch before he had left the airport. Arriving at Gimpo for a four-day visit to Seoul, the Nvidia chief executive told reporters that “robotics is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The argument is about who the AI boom is for. South Korea’s labour minister, Kim Young-hoon, has called on the country’s largest technology firms to share the windfall profits flowing from the AI-driven chip cycle, warning that record sector gains risk widening the gap between the conglomerates capturing them and everyone working below the top. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The idea is unusual enough that it took a moment to register: the United States government, owning a slice of the companies building frontier AI. According to a report by NOTUS, senior US officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI companies about exactly that, the federal government acquiring shares in the firms at the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Any ecommerce brand, once you hit a certain scale, needs to have a mobile app. But knowing you want an app isn’t the hard part; getting there is. Luckily, there are hundreds of companies that specialize in helping ecommerce brands launch mobile apps, without hiring developers. The problem, however, is that not all of these tools […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The gap, officials worry, let Chinese companies acquire banned chips through overseas subsidiaries. New guidance is meant to close it, after the chips may already have moved. The export ban worked on paper and leaked in practice. Trump administration officials are worried that a gap in US rules allowed Chinese companies to legally buy servers […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hock Tan built Broadcom by buying things. So it carried some weight when the chief executive, who assembled one of the industry’s largest chip companies through a long run of acquisitions, said dealmaking has slipped down his list of priorities. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Tan said Broadcom is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Switch is trying to raise money at a valuation that would have looked implausible for a data-centre developer a few years ago. The Las Vegas company is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50bn, according to The Information, as it moves to capitalise on the demand for the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The conversation at this year’s NY Tech Week is about AI. The panels, the pitch decks, the happy hours: agents that code, agents that sell, infrastructure for the agents. Then a screen mounted to a truck shows a man sitting on a toilet, staring at his phone in open panic. The line underneath: “His prospect […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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