The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Numerous researchers whose grants were terminated didn’t respond to inquiries from MIT Technology Review or declined to comment, amid growing ...
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This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us
It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms. Previous research has tended to ...
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Fueling seamless AI at scale
Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most recent chapter, which ...
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This giant microwave may change the future of war
As for cost, each Army Leonidas unit currently runs in the “low eight figures,” Lowery told me. Defense contract pricing ...
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The Download: The next anti-drone weapon, and powering AI’s growth
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed ...
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The AI Hype Index: College students are hooked on ChatGPT
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary ...
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The Download: nuclear-powered AI, and a short history of creativity
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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A new sodium metal fuel cell could help clean up transportation
“It’s an interesting cell concept,” says Jürgen Janek, a professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of ...
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Three takeaways about AI’s energy use and climate impacts
We found that the same exact query, with the same exact energy demand, will have a very different climate impact ...
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The Download: Meet Cathy Tie, and Anthropic’s new AI models
Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback ...
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