It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history—one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools, and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16.
AI researcher and industry insider Ali Farhadi doesn’t mince words when it comes to open-source artificial intelligence: “Openness is the only way forward,” he says.
Farhadi is a professor at the University of Washington as well as the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), one of the most active nonprofit AI research institutes in the nation. The institute has three main areas of focus: Open Ecosystem, empowering others with AI capabilities; AI for scientists, helping them do th
In 2016, when Twitter replaced its purely chronological timeline with one that used an algorithm to determine what users saw, I declared it to be a minor whoop at most—a 2.35 on a scale of 1 to 10. Maybe I was too serene about the change, which theoretically helped people see worthwhile tweets that they might otherwise have missed. But I d
It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go to the polls. These are also the
The trade association formerly known as the Commercial Spaceflight Federation is getting a new name, a concise mandate, and a way to support the politicians who support space.
The group will now be known as the Commercial Space Federation (CSF) to more accurately reflect its members, which include companies working in sectors ranging from spaceports to space situational awareness to Earth observation.
“I heard we were seen as the launch trade association when 75% of
Amazon.com’s cloud unit on Tuesday showed new data center servers packed with its own AI chips that will challenge Nvidia, with Apple coming aboard as a customer to use them.
The new servers, based on 64 of Amazon Web Services’ Trainium2 chips, will be strung together in a massive supercomputer with hundreds of thousands of
Where else could you tuck into a bowl of python pasta, soundtracked against the prerecorded grunts and grumbles of gorillas and screech of live parrots? For ’90s kids hosting at least one, if not many, of your birthday meals surrounded by animatronic wildlife at the Rainforest Cafe was a right of passage. Now, the eatertainment chain is going viral online.
While some of the chain’s renewed popularity can be chalked up to
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Paul Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to crypto outlet Unchained. Assuming Atkins accepts the offer, crypto enthusiasts would have plenty of reason to rejoice.
Atkins may not be as familiar a name to the general public as his predecessor,
Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced a new family of foundation models called Nova to power generative AI applications at its re:Invent 2024 conference on Tuesday.
Amazon is rolling out four Nova models in total: Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier. Each have their own capabilities and sizes. Amazon also introduced a new image generation model, called Nova Canvas; and a video-generation model, Nova Reel.
China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports.
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