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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.

Viral footage shows what appear to be humanoid robots posing at a conference in Beijing. They're actually human cosplayers.

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

Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines

There is no "online world." That was always a metaphor, and as it turns out, a bad one. But what can take its place?

Scientists in Singapore are hoping to perfect a new method of power generation driven largely by shadows, with the hope that it could one day help highly urbanised cities power themselves.

Michael Smith, a 52-year-old music producer, is accused of generating more than $10 million in illicit royalties using AI-generated songs.

From “barely 3D” to “more 3D than most 3D games”.

Last Energy just raised a $40 million Series B.

A climate tech company hopes to use an £8m investment to further its research.

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.

Strava launched in 2009 as a niche website for cyclists to log mileage. During the pandemic, it blossomed into a mobile app serving more than 120 million athletes as worldwide lockdowns drove people outdoors.

“Hot Ones,” “Chicken Shop Date” and “Good Mythical Morning” draw big audiences but aren’t getting the kind of ad dollars and accolades TV shows do.

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.

Scientists at Oxford University Physics Department have developed a revolutionary approach which could generate increasing amounts of solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar

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Two years in, union leaders say Biden’s big climate law is making a difference.

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts

Pakistan’s market for solar power is booming, propelled by a surge in imports from China, according to BloombergNEF.

Xenobots may change how we think about intelligence.

The largest earthquake to hit Taiwan this century rattled the entire island overnight, collapsing buildings, damaging roads, and shutting down...

Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.

A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, amo…

Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.

Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.