Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English
In the latest episode of Deja Vu, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor examine the latest model of disaster capitalism.
Al Jazeera English
Nvidia's Jensen Huang poured money into open-source AI, from French-founded Hugging Face to chips for Mistral's data centres, and fought Washington's attempts to restrict it. With Huang gone and China hawks emboldened, Tech 24 asks whether Europe's AI ambitions have lost their most powerful ally…
France 24
Fears for national college entrance exam next week as test taker admits sending photos of questions to AI tool The marks attained by the top scorer on South Korea’s national exam for aspiring tax accountants this year seemed too good to be true. On Sunday, sceptics were proven right when he…
The Guardianand 1 more
The scale of the economic disruption caused by AI has led even conservative politicians to talk about universal basic income. But economists aren't convinced, and campaigners think we need to ask deeper questions.
DW
Scientists have uncovered a hidden warning sign in routine heart scans that could predict sudden cardiac death before it strikes. The AI-powered discovery outperformed conventional screening methods, potentially revealing thousands of people at risk of a fatal heart malfunction that doctors might…
ScienceDaily
As Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 polls, the use of artificial intelligence in the electoral process has prompted questions about integrity and institutional readiness. Can Nigerians trust their democratic processes?
DW
Researchers at Stanford, UCLA, and SLAC have developed an AI system that simulates complex laser interactions thousands of times faster than conventional methods. The breakthrough allows scientists to predict how laser pulses behave inside special crystals in just milliseconds, without sacrificing…
ScienceDaily
Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.
Ars Technica
Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
Ars Technica
Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. orbited Earth from November 11 to 15, 1966, on Gemini XII, the final mission of NASA’s Gemini program. In addition to successfully completing rendezvous maneuvers and spacewalks, procedures vital to sending American astronauts to the…
NASAand 1 more
The sharp sell-off in tech stocks after the US midterms has cast doubt on Anthropic's looming IPO. Yet with hundreds of billions still being invested, some think the AI party is still in full swing.
DW
New guidance has been issued to ensure that people everywhere can obtain credible climate change information from artificial intelligence (AI) and understand how the technology impacts the environment.
UN News
AI expert Gary Marcus breaks down what's at stake for Nvidia and the mess its new CEO has inherited.
NPR
A new AI model, called Brain-IT, can transform brain scans into images and reverse the process, turning images into what they'd look like as brain activity.
Live Science
The self-styled visionaries of Silicon Valley, leaders like OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, have built careers claiming to see the future. Long-term vision is currency: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg built a 10-year road map for Facebook in 2016, and Google famously told…
MIT Technology Review
Researchers at Brown University have overcome a major obstacle to creating ultra-low-power computer chips that could help slash the energy demands of AI. Their breakthrough eliminates a long-standing "dead layer" problem that causes promising materials to stop working when made extremely thin…
ScienceDaily
After a month-long investigation it was concluded that Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter, which won the £10,000 Caine prize, was ‘human-written’ The Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has been cleared of using AI to write a prize-winning short story, after the prestigious Caine prize for…
The Guardian
Scientists have developed an AI-powered approach that makes experimental bionic vision technology more precise, helping predict the flashes and shapes of light perceived by a blind man with a brain implant. By learning how an individual's brain responds to electrical stimulation, the technology…
ScienceDaily
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. Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind As we age, we forget most of what we’ve experienced, yet there’s still undeniable continuity: At 30, or 50, or 70, you…
MIT Technology Review
The new Peerium architecture aims to power hyper-efficient computers capable of training AI models with up to 40 trillion parameters.
Live Science
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. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of…
MIT Technology Review
Julie Elie, an ethologist at the University of California, Berkeley, tells Live Science about using AI to decode the vocalizations of zebra finches.
Live Science
‘Not particularly complex’ defrosting hack has been attributed to Iran, with presumption it is linked to others across Europe Iranian hackers like to send a message. In 2023 a state-backed group interrupted TV streaming services in the United Arab Emirates to broadcast a deepfake report on the war…
The Guardian
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s known as Data Center Alley—the world’s largest data center hub…
MIT Technology Review
Watching adults misunderstand the cues of his autistic cousin, a teen taught himself machine learning to build technology that could help them. His solution has more than 700 users in 12 countries, reaching families through autism therapy centers—all while remaining free. Kora, a free app that…
Good News Network
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has apologized for an affair with a woman the US believes was spying for China. The story could have profound implications for the world's most valuable company and the global AI race.
DW
Using machine learning, astronomers developed a new way of looking at James Webb telescope data that allows far-off planets to emerge from their stars' glare.
Live Science
European shares have fallen after sharp losses in Asia and on Wall Street. Doubts over huge AI investments and fears of curbs following the Democrats' US midterm victory have rattled global markets.
DW
France, Germany and Italy face a volatile bond market as war inflation bites. With US tech giants now issuing billions in AI bonds, they are competing with cash-strapped European governments.
DW