The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions on new military infrastructure inside Israel that focuses on Tel Aviv’s refueling capabilities and a new facility for its naval commando unit called Shayetet 13, Haaretz reported last week, citing newly released documents that were posted online.
The same tech CEOs shoveling billions into the AI Arms Race continue to at least periodically betray reservations and dystopian “tells” concerning the technology.
AI will slash Amazon’s white-collar workforce in the years ahead, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a staff memo last month.
The ultimate use case for quantum computing certainly won’t be trying to crack bitcoin encryption—power, which just for the record, would expose every financial system and other data store in the world to hacking.
A growing number of businesses and universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East are adopting DeepSeek and other AI systems from Chinese developers and turning away from U.S. models, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) has “hired” dozens of AI bots as “digital employees” who work alongside humans as colleagues, Leigh-Ann Russell, the bank’s CIO, told The Wall Street Journal.
Plastic’s drawbacks are well-documented: it’s made from crude oil, it’s troublesome to recycle, the rising tide of waste clogs our landfills, littering our waterways and endangering wildlife, and its microparticles make their way into our food, our bodies, and our brains.
A viral music group with an exploding listenership on Spotify, one of the leading music streaming platforms, has become an epicenter of the latest controversy over issues surrounding AI created content.
At the University of Auckland in New Zealand, rats paralyzed by spinal cord injuries are walking again, thanks to a tiny control box they wear like a backpack.
Backed by $23 million in donations from AI developers Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the American Federation of Teachers union (AFT) is opening the National Academy for AI Instruction, where teachers can learn to use AI themselves and integrate it into their lessons.