The European Central Bank rate-setting committee (ECB) left the bank’s key interest rate at 2 percent last week.
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ALPHABET, NOT OPENAI, “HAS THE HOT HAND” IN AI NOW
Seen as trailing the pack of AI competitors a year ago, Google parent company Alphabet has now taken a leading spot after its Gemini Model 3 AI received stellar reviews and the company is reporting AI is driving “revenue and growth across the board” with both business customers and individual consumers, CEO Sandar Pichai said in an earnings call last week.
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MATH ANXIETY? THERE’S AN AI FOR THAT
Math anxiety is as common among students as smartphones. Compassionate, individualized support can overcome it but teachers with 20 or more kids in a classroom have little time to give to that effort.
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LIFE IMITATES TECH: BRAIN PROCESSES MATCH THOSE OF AI, STUDY SAYS
It turns out that our brains build meaning from language in more or less the same way that AI does, according to a new study from Hebrew University.
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THE COMING CONSTITUTIONAL ICE AGE
Last fall during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge.
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WILL AI SCORE A 10 AS AN OLYMPICS JUDGE?
At this year’s Winter Olympics, there will be a new presence at the judges’ tables.
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CHINESE ROBOTICS FIRM DISPLAYS “BIOMIMETIC” HUMANOID ROBOT
While many Chinese robotics developers focus on industrial designs or robots displaying superhuman feats of strength and endurance, Shanghai firm DroidUp has focused on a robot you’d like to have around the house.
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“FIBER CHIP” COMPUTER IS AS THIN AS A THREAD
At Shanghai’s Fudan University, engineers have solved a problem that has dogged wearables: how to shrink computing power so it can be small enough, and flexible enough, to be woven into fabrics.
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ANTIBIOTIC PROMPTS GUT BACTERIA TO MAKE ANTI-AGING COMPOUND
Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have been researching anti-aging compounds for some time and wanted to take their findings beyond the confines of their lab to see how people might make use of them.
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LOCKED DOWN. ROUNDED UP. WAREHOUSED. THE RISE OF AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CAMPS
In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial.