Tech & AI

This week, artificial intelligence moved deeper into enterprise software, custom silicon, media creation, autonomous vehicles, and workplace planning. At the same time, failed automation experiments, infrastructure opposition, surveillance concerns, cyberattacks, and rising hardware costs illustrated the growing tension between rapid adoption and real-world consequences. Top news AI economics and the future of work Bill Gates…

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Under the influence of psychedelics, the usual organization of the human brain loosens. That’s what scientists have generally thought, with several studies showing that when we take these substances, the signals pinging between our neurons become more diverse and unpredictable. This increased entropy in our gray matter may underlie the strange, random, and often memorable…

It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz — who’d spent their firm’s first five years explicitly avoiding healthcare and life sciences — decided the category was worth betting on after all and…

Anthropic’s Australian ambitions could require an extraordinary amount of electricity. The Claude maker expressed interest earlier this year in locating up to 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in New South Wales, according to internal government emails obtained by ABC News. The figure would be more than three times the combined capacity of all…

Today’s Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you’re a secret agent. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE…

It’s no exaggeration to say the large language models that power AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing the world. Many of us are now relying on them for coding, writing, summarizing, and searching the web. Whatever directions AI goes in over the next few years, LLMs will be part of that future. If…

At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it. No matter where you were during the annual Nordic conference, from onstage to cocktail hours and after-parties, the chatter kept coming back to how Europe can gain more…

AI benchmarks are supposed to reveal what models can do, but Google DeepMind is now putting the tests behind a cryptographic wall to make sure the models have not seen the answers first. Google DeepMind said Thursday that it has piloted what it describes as the first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier AI model,…

TL;DR: Pay $14.97 through Sept. 1 for a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 on one Windows PC, with no recurring fees. A productivity suite shouldn’t necessarily become another permanent line on the monthly budget. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 offers a familiar alternative: pay $14.97 once and install its seven included programs…