OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their own. Two lette…
Four in five American students already use AI for schoolwork, and half of their schools have no policy at all. Stanford’s data shows that the fastest adoption is happening well away from the countries writing the rules. Four out of five American high s…
Walking is the rare habit backed by the evidence of joy in three places at once: physical vitality, a quieter mind and easier conversation. A psychologist explains.
The people who work with the data every day often know things that aren’t captured in schemas, architecture diagrams or technical documentation.
The Starship 3.0 concept truck has been busy of late, testing a battery pack that uses an immersion-cooling system to manage battery heat, improve range performance, and enhance the durability of electric semi truck batteries.
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China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of Ch…
“Fake it till you make it” relied on psychological resilience. “AI it till you make it” relies on structured augmentation.
Recognizing a problem is only the starting point; real progress depends on defining what improvement should look like and following through.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is…
From clever new photo tricks to the extended abilities of Siri AI, there’s lots to dig into with the new iOS 27 update.