Google’s Conversational Photo Editor Is the Rare AI Feature People Will Actually Use
A prototype app called Pixeltone developed by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan showed the possibility of using voice...
Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab
Mark Zuckerberg has poached a high-ranking OpenAI researcher to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Yang Song,...
This AI-Powered Robot Keeps Going Even if You Attack It With a Chainsaw
A four-legged robot that keeps crawling even after all four of its legs have been hacked off with a chainsaw...
A Startup Used AI to Make a Psychedelic Without the Trip
While there's growing evidence that psychedelic drugs can effectively treat severe mental health conditions, especially in cases where traditional treatments...
OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
OpenAI is planning to build five new data centers in the United States as part of the Stargate initiative, the...
Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI
Depending on how you think about it, there's half a dozen or more approaches to the hardware. And I became...
Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center
The agreement sets out hiring timelines that the company must also hit to receive these tax incentives: Meta can receive...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Of course, Silicon Valley was never all flowers and psychedelics. “For all that it might flatter itself with counterculture roots,...
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year...
Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly...
