
Newser - 1 day 3 hours ago
"People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model," OpenAI boss Sam Altman said, "but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human." The OpenAI chief executive made the comment while in India for an A1 Summit when addressing the resources the industry...

BBC - 1 day 3 hours ago
Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up.

Sky News - 1 day 3 hours ago
A baby boy has become the first child in Britain to be born to a mother with a womb transplanted from a deceased donor.

The Atlantic - 1 day 4 hours ago
You don't "train a human"...

Variety - 1 day 5 hours ago
For the first time ever, the NAACP Image Awards are getting into gaming. The 57th NAACP Image Awards kick off a two-day stream of its virtual awards portion Monday at 8 p.m. on Youtube. Among the multiple digital content creator categories that will be announced out of the stream is Outstanding Digital Content Creator – […]...

New York Times - 1 day 6 hours ago
DeepSeek is among the three Chinese start-ups accused of using data from Anthropic's A.I. system to train their own, a process called distillation.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 6 hours ago
Whether you're printing parts, toys, tools, or making art, a 3D Printer is an incredible tool for crafting and creating.

NPR - 1 day 6 hours ago
Recent breakthroughs have accelerated worries that AI may soon replace humans in the workforce on a massive scale. Two experts talk through how and whether that could happen.

Observer - 1 day 7 hours ago
Sam Altman defends A.I. against water overuse allegations, but concedes energy consumption is real and calls for transition to nuclear, wind and solar.

Variety - 1 day 7 hours ago
The iconic orc statue that lives at the center of Blizzard Entertainment’s Irvine campus is standing a little taller these days as the brand behind “World of Warcraft,” “Diablo,” “Hearthstone” and “Overwatch” builds to its 35th anniversary. Sitting in her office above the Microsoft-owned brand’s campus on Jan. 20, Blizzard Entertainment president Johanna Faries told […]...

Newser - 1 day 8 hours ago
OpenAI is facing questions over whether it missed a warning sign months before a deadly school shooting in a small town in British Columbia. In June, employees at the ChatGPT maker debated whether to alert Canadian police about user messages from Jesse Van Rootselaar that described gun violence scenarios over...

New York Times - 1 day 9 hours ago
Anthropic's chief executive, Dario Amodei, has pushed for regulations to create guardrails on artificial intelligence.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 9 hours ago
There are already a handful of new Nintendo bangers on the Switch 2, as well as some nice upgrades for some original Switch classics.

NBC News - 1 day 10 hours ago
Britain's former ambassador to the U.S., has been arrested following weeks of revelations over his relationship with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

BBC - 1 day 10 hours ago
The executive shake-up has sparked online debate about new boss Asha Sharma's gaming credentials.

NY Post - 1 day 10 hours ago
The lead researchers have said they're developing this piece of wearable tech in large part to help spot inherited heart conditions that sometimes show no outward symptoms and frequently go undetected.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 14 hours ago
AI has driven an explosion of new number formats the ways in which numbers are represented digitally. Engineers are looking at every possible way to save computation time and energy , including shortening the number of bits used to represent data. But what works for AI doesn't necessarily work for scientific computing, be it for computational physics, biology, fluid dynamics, or engineering simulations. IEEE Spectrum spoke with Laslo Hunhold , who recently joined Barcelona-based Openchip as...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 16 hours ago
AI is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape. From accelerating threat detection to enabling real-time automated responses, artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.But with these advancements come new and complex risks AI systems themselves can be exploited, manipulated, or biased, creating fresh vulnerabilities. In this session, we'll explore how AI is being applied in real-world cybersecurity scenarios from anomaly detection...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 18 hours ago
Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: societies are deciding it's no longer kids' stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use , exposure to harmful content , and mounting concerns about adolescent mental health . So, many propose to set a minimum age, usually 13 or 16. In cases when regulators demand real enforcement rather than symbolic rules, platforms run into a basic technical problem. The only way to prove that someone is old enough to use a site is...