[ad_1] After famed investor Marc Andreessen met with government officials about the future of tech last May, he was “very scared” and described the meetings as “absolutely horrifying.” These meetings played a key role on why he endorsed Trump, he told journalist Bari Weiss this week on her podcast. What scared him most was what some said about the government’s role in AI, and what he described as a young
[ad_1] AI continues to reshuffle power and energy markets with even oil giants like Exxon Mobil getting into the mix. Exxon announced this week that it’s planning to build a power plant for data centers, reflecting just how much electricity tech companies expect they’ll need in the coming decade. According to one estimate, nearly half of new AI data centers might not have enough power by 2027. The oil and
[ad_1] A note from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai:Information is at the core of human progress. It’s why we’ve focused for more than 26 years on our mission to organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful. And it’s why we continue to push the frontiers of AI to organize that information across every input and make it accessible via any output, so that it can be
[ad_1] Ever wondered if you could get an AI bot to fall in love with you? Now you have the chance. Freysa.ai is a team of anonymous developers building a series of increasingly meta challenges designed to influence how humans think about AI safety. The third challenge is starting sometime in the next 24 hours (you can follow Freysa’s X account for updates) and has a simple directive: if you can
[ad_1] Spotify Wrapped isn’t the only service offering a year-end recap these days. In addition to the year-end reviews from other streamers and social apps, Google Photos is among the apps providing users with a look back at key moments throughout the past year. The feature, “2024 Recap,” introduces a collection of memories, insights, and photos, which can also be augmented with AI captions. The latter feature is available to
[ad_1] Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste actually gets recycled. It would be a lot easier if people could dump everything into one bin and let the waste-management companies deal with it, but that’s proven to be too expensive with humans in the loop. Enter robots. Myriad companies, from small startups
[ad_1] Research Published 5 December 2024 Advancing adaptive AI agents, empowering 3D scene creation, and innovating LLM training for a smarter, safer futureNext week, AI researchers worldwide will gather for the 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), taking place December 10-15 in Vancouver,Two papers led by Google DeepMind researchers will be recognized with Test of Time awards for their “undeniable influence” on the field. Ilya Sutskever will
[ad_1] Earlier this year, Meta tried to get its own nuclear powered data center the easy way, by building one next to an existing reactor. But after regulators threw cold water on the plan — the site was reportedly home to a rare bee species — the company is back with a new idea: find a developer who will build one or more nuclear power plants somewhere, anywhere. Meta announced
[ad_1] Technologies Published 4 December 2024 Authors Ilan Price and Matthew Willson New AI model advances the prediction of weather uncertainties and risks, delivering faster, more accurate forecasts up to 15 days aheadWeather impacts all of us — shaping our decisions, our safety, and our way of life. As climate change drives more extreme weather events, accurate and trustworthy forecasts are more essential than ever. Yet, weather cannot be predicted
[ad_1] AcknowledgementsGenie 2 was led by Jack Parker-Holder with technical leadership by Stephen Spencer, with key contributions from Philip Ball, Jake Bruce, Vibhavari Dasagi, Kristian Holsheimer, Christos Kaplanis, Alexandre Moufarek, Guy Scully, Jeremy Shar, Jimmy Shi and Jessica Yung, and contributions from Michael Dennis, Sultan Kenjeyev and Shangbang Long. Yusuf Aytar, Jeff Clune, Sander Dieleman, Doug Eck, Shlomi Fruchter, Raia Hadsell, Demis Hassabis, Georg Ostrovski, Pieter-Jan Kindermans, Nicolas Heess, Charles
