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This tool could show how consciousness works
How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery.
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A natural protein may protect the GI tract from infection
Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces.
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The new word in home construction could be “plastics”
Single-use plastics are a persistent source of environmental pollution, and the need to house a growing global population puts increasing pressure on resources such as timber.
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Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150
Earlier this month, Anthropic said its Mythos Preview model was so good at finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities that the company was limiting its initial release to “a limited group of critical industry partners.” Since then, debate has raged over whether the model presages an era of turbocharged A
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Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations’ military budgets
The US military’s massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budge
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Roundtables: Unveiling The 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
Available only for MIT Alumni and subscribers. Listen to the session or watch below Subscribers saw a special edition of Roundtables simulcast live from EmTech AI, MIT Technology Review’s signature conference for AI leadership.
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SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60 billion
SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI,” which includes a surprising provision — an option to buy the popular software development platform for $60 billion later this year. Partnering with and potentially purchasing a leader in the hot
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Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic’s exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
A group of unauthorized users has reportedly gained access to Mythos, the cybersecurity tool recently announced by Anthropic. Much has been made of Mythos and its purported power — an AI product designed for enterprise security that, in the wrong hands, could become a potent hacking tool, according
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Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build more capable and efficient artificial intelligence. The story, which was first reported by Reuters,
Fresh Benchmarks, Reliable Scores: Introducing Continuous Prompt Stewardship for AI Risk Evaluation
The AI industry launches new frontier models every few months, yet benchmarks used to assess their risks often become outdated or compromised. To address this, MLCommons introduces a Continuous Prompt Stewardship System for AILuminate, ensuring benchmark freshness through quantitative performance metrics, community-driven contributions, and auditable documentation.
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Siemens introduces AI system for automation engineering
Siemens has introduced the Eigen Engineering Agent, an AI system designed to plan and validate automation engineering tasks in operational environments.The system uses multi-step reasoning and self-correction to carry out tasks autonomously and operates directly inside engineering platforms, letting
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Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past
In the past, even with an icebreaker and during peak melt season, getting to the North Pole wasn’t a sure bet. It took favorable winds to crack the frozen ocean surface, and ships had to fight through ice that had grown many meters thick over several winters.
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This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
school students, Sam was broke.The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation.
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The Download: turning down human noise, and LA’s stunning subway upgrade
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? As human society has expanded, animals have started struggling to hear one another.
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GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists
Today’s AI music startups, like Suno and Udio, offer technology that leverages AI for music generation.
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Snowflake expands its technical and mainstream AI platforms
Snowflake is expanding its Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code offerings in the hope of bringing users deploying and developing artificial intelligence inside the Snowflake portfolio.
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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities
YouTube is expanding its new “likeness detection” technology, which identifies AI-generated content, such as deepfakes, to people within the entertainment industry, the company announced on Tuesday. The technology works similarly to YouTube’s existing Content ID system, which detects copyright-prote
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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
Legacy social media sites have been designed to keep us hooked to our devices, eyes glued endlessly to retina-frying feeds of memes and dumb videos in order to create more engaged platforms for advertisements.
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AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs
If you’ve ever played a role-playing game (RPG), you know how fun it is to create your character in any way you choose and embark on epic adventures.
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Anthropic gets $5B investment from Amazon, will use it to buy Amazon chips
Amazon has significantly boosted its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion—enabling Anthropic to eventually secure up to 5 gigawatts’ worth of AI chips from Amazon to help train and run its popular Claude AI models. Amazon is already one of Anthr