Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two that some employees believe remain before it becomes
San Francisco-based artificial intelligence leader OpenAI has secured a staggering $300 billion valuation following a $40 billion investment round led by SoftBank, making it one of the world’s best-funded private start-ups. The
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Intel’s newly appointed chief executive, Lip-Bu Tan, has vowed to implement a sweeping cultural shift at the semiconductor giant, likening the transformation to a “day-one start-up” mentality. Speaking at a company conference
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Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Zone, marking another step in the tech giant’s gradual retreat from China as geopolitical tensions between the US and
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has acquired the social media platform X in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition was confirmed in a post on X,
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The term ‘open source’ has long been associated with transparency, collaboration, and free access to software. However, as Nature recently highlighted, many AI companies are misusing this label, undermining the very principles
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A groundbreaking study by AI firm Anthropic has provided a rare glimpse into the inner workings of large language models (LLMs), shedding light on how they generate responses and revealing surprising behaviors.
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Finally, equality has arrived. Artificial intelligence greatly empowers scammers and malevolent uses of the Internet. Malwarebytes provides updates on the latest threats. The digital revolution and artificial intelligence are not only the
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AlphaFold, the revolutionary AI model for predicting protein structures, is facing a significant challenge due to a shortage of data. While AlphaFold 3 has proven to be a game-changer in drug discovery
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a tool in scientific peer review, but its increasing involvement has sparked a mix of curiosity, concern, and debate among researchers and publishers alike. In a
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The rapid success of DeepSeek, a rising star in China’s artificial intelligence sector, has led to a significant shift in the strategies of the country’s top AI start-ups. As DeepSeek’s technology gains
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London-based artificial intelligence start-up Synthesia has announced an industry-first initiative to offer company stock to the actors whose likenesses are used to create its hyper-realistic AI avatars. The move, aimed at compensating
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In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have successfully pinpointed the age of the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on the lunar surface. Led by Prof. CHEN
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In a pioneering study, researchers have successfully biosynthesized lignan glycosides—powerful antiviral compounds—using a synthetic yeast system, a breakthrough that could significantly boost the availability of these vital compounds for medicinal use. Lignans,
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The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build the most powerful particle accelerator the world has ever seen—a megacollider that would dwarf its current flagship facility, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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SRI International has introduced a groundbreaking hyperspectral imager that promises to enhance situational awareness across both defense and civilian sectors. Known for its compact size, low cost, and high performance, this new
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