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The myth of scaling to reach AGI is wearing thin
The first two years of the AI boom were all about monolithic large language models (LL
The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook’s parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday, bringing hopes that the $10 billion
A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space.
Each fake eclipse should la
On the internet, people go viral for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, for the wrong ones.
LOLCows are one example of the internet’s darker sense of humor. While not a new term, an “LOLCow” is a “a person you get extensive laughs from, who doesn’t know they are being made fun of,” according to Urban Dictionary. In other words, a person being milked for “lols” or laughs. “They can often think they are a
A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign.
Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger offered new details about the breadth of the
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is in discussions with Nvidia Corp to produce its Blackwell artificial intelligence chips at the contract manufacturer’s new plant in
In mid-October, rumors were swirling that Ubisoft was planning to shut down XDefiant, its struggling free-to-play first-person shooter game. Producer Mark Rubin took to social media to categorically deny that chatter. Tuesday afternoon, he was back on X.com—this time to announce the game was indeed ending.
Ubisoft has pulled the plug on
When it comes to producing state-of-the-art microchips for artificial intelligence, only one company produces the multimillion-dollar hardware necessary to draw the complex, microscopic designs on silicon needed for the chips to work: ASML. Big chipmakers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Intel, and Samsung all rely on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that the Dutch company provides. No wonder it
Why play a video game when you could watch an internet celebrity do it?
According to a new MIDiA Research survey, gamers are spending more time watching videos about gaming than playing games themselves. The average respondent spent 8.5 hours scrolling YouTube and Twitch for gaming content, compared to just 7.4 hours booting up their favorite ga
Matcha is undoubtedly the beverage of the moment. It’s almost impossible to scroll on social media without catching glimpses of bright green, sipped out of glass straws or takeaway cups. In Japan, however, the matcha industry is struggling to keep up with soaring demand.
“POV: The girls have caused a matcha shortage in Japan,” says one viral TikTok post. The clip shows a sign at a tea shop in Japan that re