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The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge
Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an…
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Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search
Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs. Srinivas remembers the moment seven…
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BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse X Has a Car-Wide Screen and a ‘Joy’ Brain
“The ‘heart of joy’ effectively takes 30 years of experience and blends it into a single control unit,” BMW chief…
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Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
In 2023, OpenAI told the UK parliament that it was “impossible” to train leading AI models without using copyrighted materials.…
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8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
The last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building…
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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name
Glassdoor has a history of working to keep its users’ identities private, but there are concerns about these identity changes.…
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The World Needs to Crack Battery Recycling, Fast
Europe is slowly catching up, both in terms of battery production and recycling, with car manufacturers leading the charge to…
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How to Stay Cool Without Warming the Planet
There is an insidious irony to climate change: as it gets hotter, more and more people are cranking up their…
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A Crypto Company Thinks It Can Help Fight Climate Change
It started at a hackathon a few years ago near Trafalgar Square, in London. Raphaël Haupt and James Farrell got…
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Brace Yourself For the Comeback of Citizen Scientists
Richard Battarbee spent his entire life studying freshwater ecology as an academic at University College London—but it was only when…
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