The United States military has utilized horses since the nation’s inception,…
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The Download: A conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?
In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, journalist and author Karen Hao recently spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
She talked with executive editor…
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Breaking the Bottleneck: All-Optical Chip Could Unlock Light-Speed Communication
New optical chip enables ultra-fast computing and data processing. Built using silicon photonics for next-gen networks. The rise of the big data era presents major challenges for information processing, particularly in terms of handling large…
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Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao
And the third feature is that the empires monopolize knowledge production. So, in the last 10 years, we’ve seen the AI industry monopolize more and more of the AI researchers in the world. So AI researchers are no longer contributing to open…
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Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era
Granted, there’s an argument to be made that the moratorium’s defeat was highly contingent. Blackburn appears to have been motivated almost entirely by concerns about children’s online safety and the rights of country musicians to control…
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This Ultra-Thin Drumhead Moves Sound With Almost No Loss – And May Change Tech Forever
When a drummer hits a drum, the surface vibrates and creates sound—a signal we recognize as music. But once those vibrations stop, the signal disappears. Now imagine a drumhead that’s incredibly thin, only about 10 millimeters wide, and…
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New Viral Indie Rock Sensation Reveals They’re 100% AI : ScienceAlert
An indie rock band with more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify has owned up to being an AI-generated music project following days of speculation about whether the group was real.
Named Velvet Sundown – seemingly a nod to Lou Reed’s…
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Shipwreck fragment linked to one of WWII’s strangest rescue tales
A few flecks of residual paint and an engraved anchor were enough to link
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Pacific island wildlife refuge spared from SpaceX rocket project
Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge…
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Building an innovation ecosystem for the next century
Megan: And last year, when Michigan’s Governor Whitmer announced this new initiative and your position, she noted the need to foster this sort of culture of innovation. And we hear that a lot that terminal in the context of company cultures….
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