A team of 19 Chinese computer scientists from five separate institutions claim to have created an AI that designed a computer’s central processing unit (CPU)—a computer’s master chip or “brain”—in less than five hours, or about 1,000 times faster than humans could have accomplished the same task.
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NSF GRANTS FUND SCIENCE AND TECH INNOVATION AS ECONOMIC ENGINES
The National Science Foundation has named 34 semifinalists in the first round of its Regional Innovation Engine program. Five winners will be named this fall to share $15 million over two years, then split another $145 million.
QUANTUM COMPUTING TAKES TWO GIANT STEPS FORWARD
Two new breakthroughs have moved quantum computers closer to practical use.
Quantum computers can store vastly more data and process it far faster than conventional computers. The reason: current computers store data as a series of ones and zeros. Each digit is stored in a specific spot in a computer’s memory chips and the computer processes each digit one after the other.
TWO SUBSTANCES THE HUMAN BODY MAKES MAY BE KEY TO DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER’S
An obscure enzyme named HDAC9 may be a key to understanding the origins and prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia in general.
THE STUPIDITY OF ETHANOL AS GREEN ENERGY
Carbon neutrality refers to a product that has net zero carbon emissions. The manufacture and use of corn-based ethanol has expanded based on the assumption that it’s carbon neutral and therefore far better for the environment than gasoline. However, several studies have shown that such assumptions are categorically false
ECONOMIC UPDATE — MARKET OVERVIEW
The true fear of an economic calamity on the near horizon was further clarified yesterday as gold once again illustrated its status as the world’s number one safe-haven asset.
SPOTLIGHT, TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
Over the next 18 months, commercial real estate values will plunge by as much as 40 percent in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC, according to a new forecast from Capital Economics.
CIRCLE THE WAGONS: THE GOVERNMENT IS ON THE WARPATH
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”—Harry S. Truman
GOOGLE SAYS ITS AI WILL “SCRAPE THE INTERNET,” AS TJ FORECAST CONFIRMED: GENERATIVE AI HURTING WEBSITE TRAFFIC
Google just admitted it considers the entire Internet, including everything users may post online or create using Google software, to be fair game for training its generative AI systems.









