
Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
Hundreds of well-known economists and tech leaders including from companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google signed a letter urging action now so AI "complements humans and benefits society."...

Newser - 1 day 5 hours ago
New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology. Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday...

Air and Space - 1 day 15 hours ago
Bids on "Gus" will start at $19 million, a steep price for public institutions. Specimens in private collections can be harder for researchers to examine, and they're practically impossible to include in studies in top-tier scientific journals...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 17 hours ago
If you grew up in the 1980s or '90s, you likely remember shaky home video footage, taken with a handheld camcorder , of family gatherings, vacations, and other events. Camcorders combined a camera with a video recorder . They included a rechargeable battery, a slot for a videotape, and a shoulder strap. Most were outfitted with an optical zoom lens and a small, articulating screen a display mounted on a hinge that could tilt and rotate. The operator could check the screen to view what was being...

The New York Observer - 1 day 18 hours ago
While you watch the artwork, the artwork watches you.

Newser - 1 day 18 hours ago
First-year law students at the University of Chicago will be eyes forward instead of looking at their own screens next school year. The law school is prohibiting phones, laptops, and tablets in classrooms as part of a new push to blunt overreliance on artificial intelligence while still preparing students to...

The New York Observer - 1 day 18 hours ago
The organization's investigation into A.I. and culture frames artificially intelligent technologies as both an opportunity and a threat.

Observer - 1 day 21 hours ago
MIT Museum's Michael John Gorman revists the landmark 1976 Cambridge recombinant DNA debate to argue that today's A.I. governance challenges are less unprecedented than they seem. Gorman contends that democratic deliberation is the missing ingredient in governing transformative technologies.

Observer - 1 day 21 hours ago
Art advisors and insurers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to assess prices, manage risk and bring greater precision to valuations.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 22 hours ago
In 2005, Nokia sold its billionth mobile phone , a budget-friendly device that went to a customer in Nigeria. By then, the company, based in Espoo, Finland, was making one of every three cellphones globally. But just nine years later, the mobile-device maker offloaded its entire handset division to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar, compared to what it had been worth at its peak. Nokia had risen from obscurity in the 1990s to become a worldwide cultural phenomenon by the turn of the millennium...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 1 hour ago
As AI-generated characters proliferate, Hollywood is confronting questions about authorship, artistry and whether a program can truly be an actor.

Science Alert - 2 days 3 hours ago
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