Kanishka Narayan has become the first UK minister for artificial intelligence to sit at the cabinet table, a promotion that arrives as new prime minister Andy Burnham reshapes Whitehall around the technology. Narayan, the MP for the Vale of Glamorgan a…
The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the clearest sign yet that the two governments want to keep a …
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…
When Elizabeth Stone talks about the future of work at Netflix, she keeps circling back to a phrase that is easy to say and hard to pin down. Speaking on Lenny’s Podcast in mid-July, the streamer’s chief product and technology officer described “AI flu…
A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Brazil. It would have been a notable first. It was not…
Nvidia has just created an antidote to the virus that is AI misinformation. The company’s new Synthetic Video Detector can help broadcasters assess 1080p footage at scale with processing times of just 22ms and up 92% accuracy for uncompressed videos.
South Korea wants to build its next great chip cluster far from Seoul, in the country’s rural southwest, and it wants to do so at a pace with little precedent. The plan collides with a harder limit than any zoning map, because the region does not yet h…
Gemini Notebook’s new Collections help users organize growing research libraries as Google expands the former NotebookLM across Gemini and Search, although the feature remains more limited than a proper folder system.
China is considering tightening export controls on its home-grown artificial intelligence models and the chips that run them, according to the Financial Times, in a move that would push Beijing’s technology defences well beyond the raw materials and eq…
Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the United States’ main AI oversight body has resigned aft…