The posting of the audio on the first day of Labour conference comes amid stark warnings of the threat AI poses to democracy.

Scientists are scouring garbage sites around the world for bacteria, fungi and even insects that harbor enzymes that could be harnessed for breaking down various polymers. It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.

“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.

Why the tech giant is so high on Heirloom Carbon

In 2008, while working with Will Smith on the set of a film that never ended up getting made, Remington Scott had an epiphany. The visual effects director was watching Smith stand in a photogrammetry booth, with dozens of cameras capturing the actor’s facial features from every possible angle. “ ...

Stop trying to make AI copyrights happen. It is not going to happen.

CounterCloud, a totally autonomous AI disinformation system, gives a glimpse into how AI and disinformation will work together in the future.

A guide to how China, the EU and the US are reining in artificial intelligence.

As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. In this article, we present a comparative a

This post is an exploration of the supply and demand of GPUs, particularly Nvidia H100s.

Users would be able to create deepfakes legitimately, sources told the Financial Times.

Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay’s lawsuit claims their books were used without their consent. But copyright protection doesn’t apply to ideas – they’ll need to demonstrate the likelihood of economic loss.

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.

A cautionary tale for a world racing into renewables: The large majority of mini-grids in India no longer work, an environmental group found.

Introducing Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, while retaining web-scale capabilities. This work builds upon Robotic Transformer 1 (RT-1), a model trained on multi-task demonstrations which can learn combinations of tasks and objects seen in the robotic data. RT-2 shows improved generalisation capabilities and semantic and visual understanding, beyond the robotic data it was exposed to. This includes interpreting new commands and responding to user commands by performing rudimentary reasoning, such as reasoning about object categories or high-level descriptions.

Social media is abuzz with chatter about the material, but some scientists are pushing back on the hype.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.

An enhanced geothermal system expands the range of sites able to be tapped for geothermal energy, and Fervo’s demo is the first time a company has shown it can be done on this kind of commercial scale.

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a next-generation of AirPods Sensor System wherein the housing and tips of AirPods could include a number of active and reference electrodes configured to measure biosignals and electrical activity of a user's brain.

No, this is not a Black Mirror episode.

New research raises concerns that moderation tools can't detect violent threats in Tigray and elsewhere.

Tesla Electric customers in Texas are reporting making as much as $150 a day during the heat waves as Tesla’s...

The Pope and the Vatican have partnered with Santa Clara University to publish a handbook about AI ethics.

This week, generative AI hit a new milestone: The first fully AI-generated drug reached clinical trials in human patients.

Norge Mining hopes to open first mine in Norway within next five years