America’s largest public utility is reviving coal, with little public input
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This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up
Like many Silicon Valley companies today, Scout AI is training large AI models a...
Are we performing ourselves into exhaustion?
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The cowboy who got rich selling veggie burgers
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This AI Tool Will Tell You to Stop Slacking Off
I've tested a lot of software tools over the years designed to block distractions and keep you focused. None of them work perfectl...
Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling
With coding and math, you have clear-cut, correct answers that you can check, William Isaac, a research scientist at Google DeepM...
Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
Perplexity is abandoning plans to put ads in its AI search product as the industry looks for sustainable business models that won’...
Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley who specializes in digital forensics but wasn’t involved in the Microsoft research, says t...
Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI
Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $12...