An interdisciplinary academic team has successfully integrated quantum light sources and control electronics onto a single silicon chip. In a significant advancement for quantum technology, researchers from Boston University, UC Berkeley, and…
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World’s First Hybrid Chip Combines Electronics, Photonics, and Quantum Power
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This robot scans rare library books at 2,500 pages per hour
For decades, preservationists charged with digitizing rare books have faced an…
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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.”
The researchers found thousands of…
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The Download: How to run an LLM, and a history of “three-parent babies”
In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run anything useful on your own computer without investing in pricey GPUs. But researchers have had so much success in shrinking down and…
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A brief history of “three-parent babies”
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people. The approach was used to prevent women with genetic mutations from passing mitochondrial diseases to their…
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Dark Age detoxes sometimes resembled TikTok health trends
There are countless so-called wellness tips permeating platforms like TikTok on…
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Finding value from AI agents from day one
From assuming oversight for complex workflows, such as procurement or recruitment, to carrying out proactive cybersecurity checks or automating support, enterprises are abuzz at the potential use cases for agentic AI.
According to one…
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How to run an LLM on your laptop
For Pistilli, opting for local models as opposed to online chatbots has implications beyond privacy. “Technology means power,” she says. “And so who[ever] owns the technology also owns the power.” States, organizations, and even…
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NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope aims to discover 100,000 cosmic explosions
While the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes continue to offer astronomers…
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Roundtables: Why It’s So Hard to Make Welfare AI Fair
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
The city of Amsterdam has experimented with using algorithms to evaluate welfare applicants, and it attempted to implement this using fair and ethical AI. But when the Dutch city deployed its system in the real world,…
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