More students are hiding their secret weapon from parents and teachers, racking up top grades while AI chatbots do the work.

archived 25 Feb 2025 02:52:06 UTC

Western Civilization in the Intelligence Age

GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provides probabilistic, rather than deterministic, forecasts.

Fuseproject has designed a body for a robotic system by a tech studio Kind Humanoid designed for various domestic and commercial environments.

Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

Artificial intelligence used to help researchers plan experiments and better predict outcomes

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

AI training costs are growing exponentially year after year.

This is why you need to narrow your AI's scope before deploying it.

Opponents mobilize against a California bill to regulate police use of face recognition technology, saying it won't stop wrongful arrests.

The US Labor Department rolled out a new website Tuesday to instruct employers and workers on how to ensure artificial intelligence technology doesn’t lead to discrimination or limit accessibility for disabled job seekers.

Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever

The State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety.

Alibaba’s Qwen has been shining on benchmark tests, despite chip restrictions.

There have been instances of generative AI being "used to confuse – and even suppress – voters," Sen. Warner says.

Lionsgate seems to be going all in on generative AI.

Here's how our bioacoustic foundation model, Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), may help improve health outcomes for people across India.

Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes.

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is accelerating efforts to make its own artificial intelligence chips as it looks for an edge over its rivals in China’s AI chatbot market. ByteDance is aiming for mass production of two semiconductors it has designed by 2026, in collaboration with chipmaker ...

Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.

Co-author Gordon Pennycook: "The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies."

Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.

Google's new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company's tech or

Users say they are driven by a desire for companionship because China's fast pace of life and urban isolation make loneliness an issue for many.

State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.

The US Justice Department sent subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and other companies as it seeks evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws, an escalation of its investigation into the dominant provider of AI processors.

A boom in data centers is expected to produce about 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally through the end of the decade, and accelerate investments in decarbonization efforts, according to Morgan Stanley research.