Chinese electric car giant BYD’s profit doubles in blow to Tesla
Chinese electric car maker BYD’s doubled its profits to $1.3 billion in the first quarter as it continues to surge past its key rival, Elon Musk’s Tesla. The Shenzhen-based firm...
Behold the Social Security Administration’s AI Training Video
Amidst the chaos and upheaval at the Social Security Administration (SSA) caused by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), employees have now been asked to integrate the use...
Designing a new way to optimize complex coordinated systems
Coordinating complicated interactive systems, whether it’s the different modes of transportation in a city or the various components that must work together to make an effective and efficient robot, is an...
The future of AI processing
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging in everyday use cases, thanks to advances in foundational models, more powerful chip technology, and abundant data. To become truly embedded and seamless, AI computation...
Shares of Google parent Alphabet jump as advertising growth lifts revenue to over $90B
Google parent Alphabet unveiled a $70 billion share buyback and beat quarterly revenue estimates on Thursday, benefiting from steady growth in its digital advertising business, which helped offset muted growth at its...
Motorola’s Latest Razr Phones Are All In on AI
Moto AI’s core features are Catch Me Up, Remember This, and Pay Attention. Catch Me Up summarizes notifications, prioritizing urgent messages, if you’re coming back to your Razr after some...
New model predicts a chemical reaction’s point of no return
When chemists design new chemical reactions, one useful piece of information involves the reaction’s transition state — the point of no return from which a reaction must proceed. This information...
Seeing AI as a collaborator, not a creator
The reason you are reading this letter from me today is that I was bored 30 years ago. I was bored and curious about the world and so I wound...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink could fetch $8.5B valuation: report
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink is planning to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter....
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this urgent requirement and deliver a prototype in less than six months,” ICE says in...
3D modeling you can feel
Essential for many industries ranging from Hollywood computer-generated imagery to product design, 3D modeling tools often use text or image prompts to dictate different aspects of visual appearance, like color...
AI is pushing the limits of the physical world
Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is vastly different from what architects can imagine and design (often...
Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT costs tens of millions of dollars: OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that simple courtesies such as saying “please” and “thank you” to his company’s ChatGPT bot are surprisingly expensive — costing the firm substantial sums in...
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing
While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world situations, says Fern. Even being able to run a half...
Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language
Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers’ lives easier if that code follows the rules of the programming...
