Bill Gates isn’t too scared about AI
Bill Gates has joined the chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risk around artificial intelligence. The TL;DR? He’s not too worried, we’ve...
Microsoft’s $69B deal to buy Activision can go forward: judge
A US judge ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft may go forward with its planned acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard, turning aside antitrust enforcers’ request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily stop...
An open-source gymnasium for machine learning assisted computer architecture design
Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, and Vijay Janapa Reddi, Visiting Researcher, Google Research Computer Architecture research has a long history of developing simulators and tools to evaluate and shape...
Twitter saw ‘largest usage day’ despite users flocking to Threads
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted on Monday that the social media site last week “had our largest usage day since February” despite reports that traffic has been cratering as users...
Weather forecasting is having an AI moment
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Killer Robots’ warns of AI arms race
A new kind of cold war is here. Military forces around the globe are in a covert arms race to develop terrifying new AI weaponry, a new documentary exploring the...
Meta’s new Threads app ‘murderous’ for phone batteries
Users of Meta’s new “Twitter killer” Threads gripe that the app — which has amassed more than 100 million users in less than a week since it went online —...
Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’ on tap after tough year
Fourth of July has come and gone — and that means the swanky Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho is set to host A-list moguls from across tech, media and...
3 Questions: Honing robot perception and mapping
Walking to a friend’s house or browsing the aisles of a grocery store might feel like simple tasks, but they in fact require sophisticated capabilities. That’s because humans are able...
