Cormac McCarthy

Tech Takes Diverse Approaches to Sustainability Including Net Zero Carbon by 2030

Parse away, but dire is the climate news these days, including the potential...

Gartner: Generative AI Will Bring “Transformational Benefit” in the Next 2-5 Years

Generative AI has landed on Gartner’s coveted Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies for...

When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty

Avijit Ghosh wanted the bot to do bad things.He tried to goad the artificial intelligence model, which he knew as Zinc, into producing...

When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty

Avijit Ghosh wanted the bot to do bad things.He tried to goad the artificial intelligence model, which he knew as Zinc, into producing...

Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice

Earlier this year, Google, locked in an accelerating competition with rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI to develop A.I. technology, was looking for ways...

Superconductor Scientist Faces Investigation as a Paper Is Retracted

Why It Matters: Recurring doubts about blockbuster physics claims.A superconductor is a material that effortlessly carries electrical current. If such a substance works...

X Slows Down Access to Some Rival Sites

X, the social media service formerly known as Twitter, slowed down access from its platform to rival sites such as Substack and Facebook,...

Quantum Computing: Australia’s Next Great Tech Challenge & Opportunity

Quantum computing offers a massive $6B opportunity for Australia in the coming decades, but policies need to...

A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job

Meant as a sly swipe at the inflated hype around artificial intelligence, a billboard at a construction site in Antwerp, Belgium, in June...

Solar Company Audit Finds Forced Labor in Malaysian Factory

First Solar, a leading U.S. solar panel manufacturer, said on Tuesday that an audit by the company had found that migrant workers in...

Prosecutors Detail Evidence Against Sam Bankman-Fried

Prosecutors in the criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, on Monday provided the most detailed account...

A New Role for Werner Herzog: the Voice of A.I. Poetry

If artificial intelligence had a voice, what would it sound like? Calm, like HAL 9000? Perky, like Alexa? Polite, like C-3PO?For the editors...

The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco.

Information wants to be free. That observation, first made in 1984, anticipated the internet and the world to come. It cost nothing to...

As Hollywood Strikes Roll On, Viewers Have a Chance to Catch Up

With Hollywood’s labor disputes grinding on, and virtually all production stopped, anxiety began creeping into Zain Habboo’s house in Chevy Chase, Md.She and...

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