Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More President Donald Trump unveiled an ambitious plan to reshape America’s artificial intelligence landscape this week, coupling a massive $500 billion private-sector initiative with sweeping executive actions that strip away regulatory barriers — while simultaneously sparking controversy […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face has achieved a remarkable breakthrough in artificial intelligence by introducing vision-language models that run on devices as small as smartphones while outperforming their predecessors that required massive data centers. The company’s new SmolVLM-256M model, […]
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Two years ago, OpenAI launched the chatbot craze with the release of ChatGPT. Now it hopes to spark interest in a new wave of A.I. technology. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled a tool called Operator that can go out onto the internet and perform tasks autonomously, like shopping for groceries or booking a restaurant reservation. “It […]
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“Is providing nutrition assistance to low-income kids ‘woke and weaponized’? Kaine asked Vought, who refused to answer, replying that he “wasn’t here to talk about the budget that center put out.” Kaine pressed further, but Vought claimed he was only there on behalf of the president. The Virginia senator then pointed out that in the […]
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As the capabilities of generative AI models have grown, you’ve probably seen how they can transform simple text prompts into hyperrealistic images and even extended video clips. More recently, generative AI has shown potential in helping chemists and biologists explore static molecules, like proteins and DNA. Models like AlphaFold can predict molecular structures to accelerate […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Galileo, a San Francisco-based startup, is betting that the future of artificial intelligence depends on trust. Today, the company launched a new product, Agentic Evaluations, to address a growing challenge in the world of AI: making […]
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If you’re looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans in the world are struggling to create tests that A.I. systems can’t pass. For years, A.I. systems were measured by giving new models a variety of standardized benchmark tests. Many of these tests consisted of […]
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The day after Christmas, a small Chinese start-up called DeepSeek unveiled a new A.I. system that could match the capabilities of cutting-edge chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google. That alone would have been a milestone. But the team behind the system, called DeepSeek-V3, described an even bigger step. In a research paper explaining how […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google has quietly released a major update to its popular artificial intelligence model, Gemini, which now explains its reasoning process, sets new performance records in mathematical and scientific tasks, and offers a free alternative to OpenAI’s […]
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Screenshot OpenAI and SoftBank are set to lead the project, with SoftBank taking on Stargate’s financial responsibility, according to Fortune. OpenAI’s chief Sam Altman called the venture the “most important project of this era.” Stargate involves an initial private investment of $100 billion into America’s AI infrastructure, a move that would begin a digital “re-industrialization […]
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President Trump on Tuesday announced a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to create at least $100 billion in computing infrastructure to power artificial intelligence. The venture, called Stargate, adds to tech companies’ significant investments in U.S. data centers, huge buildings full of servers that provide computing power. Stargate could eventually invest as much […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Perplexity has launched an aggressive bid to capture the enterprise AI search market, unveiling Sonar, an API service that outperforms offerings from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic on key benchmarks while also undercutting their prices. The move […]
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Artificial intelligence has become vital in business and financial dealings, medical care, technology development, research, and much more. Without realizing it, consumers rely on AI when they stream a video, do online banking, or perform an online search. Behind these capabilities are more than 10,000 data centers globally, each one a huge warehouse containing thousands […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Tencent has unveiled “Hunyuan3D 2.0” today, an AI system that turns single images or text descriptions into detailed 3D models within seconds. The system makes a typically lengthy process—one that can take skilled artists days or […]
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As White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan coordinated China policy for President Biden over four years. He traveled to Vienna, Malta, Bangkok and elsewhere to meet with Wang Yi, the top Chinese foreign policy official, and he talked with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing last August. I sat down with him recently in […]
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In the years just before Donald Trump’s ascent, political commentary increasingly aspired to a quasi-scientific style of analysis, with data journalism in all its forms supplanting the old-fashioned emphasis on hunches, narratives and vibes. In the Trump era, though, the mythic has had its revenge on the merely quantifiable. The data is still useful, in […]
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Understanding leaders around the world is one of the C.I.A.’s most important jobs. Teams of analysts comb through intelligence collected by spies and publicly available information to create profiles of leaders that can predict behaviors. A chatbot powered by artificial intelligence now helps do that work. Over the last two years, the Central Intelligence Agency […]
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As world leaders and chief executives made their final preparations to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, fires in Los Angeles sent shock waves across the financial world. Images of America’s second-largest city aflame were a visceral reminder of the growing threats posed by climate change. Insurance companies were […]
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In a two-part series, MIT News explores the environmental implications of generative AI. In this article, we look at why this technology is so resource-intensive. A second piece will investigate what experts are doing to reduce genAI’s carbon footprint and other impacts. The excitement surrounding potential benefits of generative AI, from improving worker productivity to advancing scientific […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft Research has introduced a powerful new AI system today that generates novel materials with specific desired properties, potentially accelerating the development of better batteries, more efficient solar cells and other critical technologies. The system, called […]
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Less than six months after rolling out a series of artificial intelligence features, Apple is disabling one of its signature capabilities: aggregating and summarizing news notifications. The company revealed the change on Thursday in a software update for developers. It followed an outcry from British media outlets that Apple’s software was misrepresenting news reports. In […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new artificial intelligence startup is betting that HR departments will become the next major battleground for enterprise AI adoption, launching a specialized search engine that aims to transform how companies manage their workforce. Borderless AI, […]
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After Donald J. Trump entered the White House in 2017, The Washington Post adopted a slogan that underscored the newspaper’s traditional role as a government watchdog: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” This week, as Mr. Trump prepares to re-enter the White House, the newspaper debuted a mission statement that evokes a more expansive view of The […]
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In the world of high-priced art, galleries usually act as gatekeepers. Their selective curation process is a key reason galleries in major cities often feature work from the same batch of artists. The system limits opportunities for emerging artists and leaves great art undiscovered. NALA was founded by Benjamin Gulak ’22 to disrupt the gallery […]
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Ayrin’s love affair with her A.I. boyfriend started last summer. While scrolling on Instagram, she stumbled upon a video of a woman asking ChatGPT to play the role of a neglectful boyfriend. “Sure, kitten, I can play that game,” a coy humanlike baritone responded. Ayrin watched the woman’s other videos, including one with instructions on […]
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Back in the old days — the really old days — the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of 1,000-plus years, tried to make gold by combining things like lead, mercury, and sulfur, mixed in what they hoped would be just the right proportions. Even famous scientists like Tycho Brahe, Robert […]
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When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up the vibrations and alert the brain. Encoded in their signals is a wealth of information that enables us to follow conversations, recognize familiar voices, appreciate music, and quickly locate a ringing phone or crying baby. Neurons send signals by emitting spikes — brief changes […]
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HONGIK UNIVERSITY’S INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEGREE SHOW 2024 Held from November 26 to 30, 2024, Seoul-based Hongik University showcased a diverse array of student projects envisioning the future of design through advanced technologies at its annual Industrial Design Degree Show. With a focus on artificial intelligence, robotics, and immersive experiences, the projects respond to the ‘new […]
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Vijay Gadepally, a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, leads a number of projects at the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) to make computing platforms, and the artificial intelligence systems that run on them, more efficient. Here, Gadepally discusses the increasing use of generative AI in everyday tools, its hidden environmental impact, and some […]
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have announced the release of LlamaV-o1, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence model capable of tackling some of the most complex reasoning tasks across text and images. […]
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