On Friday, Mark Zuckerberg announced a $60-65 billion investment into Meta AI. "This will be a defining year for AI," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post detailing the investment. "In…
Using data collected from Fitbit smartwatches and fed to an AI model, a team was able to unearth links between genetic factors and issues like ADHD and anxiety. Source
Rent Seeking As Trump hits the asphalt with a bevy of executive orders, it's becoming clearer what he and his tech bro buddies imagine for the future of US labor:…
Scientists at US Department of Energy explore concept of an "Exocortex"It is pitched as an extension of the scientist's brain with a word-based HCIIt is uncharted territory as one member of…
You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it's actually those who are least familiar with it. Source
The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with computer scientists to create tools that…
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded…
Billions of passwords are breached each year, SpecOps report claimsMillions of users are guilty of poor password hygieneStrong passwords are the first line of defense against data breaches Passwords are…
Y Combinator's fastest-growing startup Origami Agents raises $2M seed round to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers, reaching $50K MRR in 8 weeks while rejecting…
Mamtha Banerjee is the new leader of the JPMorgan Chase Seattle Tech Center. (JPMorgan Chase Photo) JPMorgan Chase named a new leader of its Seattle Tech Center: Mamtha Banerjee, a…
The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM's Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game…
Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition's Devin, which it claims to be the "first AI software engineer," is astonishingly bad at its job. In a recent analysis, first…
Google search engine is the most popular search engine by far. The complex, deep algorithm makes it simple to find related search results that are smooth, easy, and, most importantly,…
About a year ago, security researcher Sam Curry bought his mother a Subaru, on the condition that, at some point in the near future, she let him hack it. It…
An ally of newly-minted president Donald Trump's is arguing that the United States should resume nuclear weapons testing to send a message to its adversaries. Robert Peters, a research fellow…
When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for inspiration on what to do next. Source
Sales of China-based makers of chipmaking tools AMEC, Naura, and ACM Research expect record sales in 2024 amid curbs for Western companies to supply to China. Source
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just announced Operator. It is a generative AI service that acts like an agent and performs tasks on your behalf. Using its own browser, Operator…
OpenAI has been aggressively pushing to evolve in AI technology and keep exploring new potential. While the company is focused on bringing new updates and stepping into varied domains, it…
This icy 2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron has a heat pump. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Many EV manufacturers have leaned heavily on energy-gulping resistive heaters to keep the…