A Chinese university with close links to the People’s Liberation Army has purchased two of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial intelligence processors despite being subject to US export restrictions, according to procurement records,
Independent artificial intelligence safety evaluators are gaining prominence as leading technology companies face growing pressure to demonstrate that their increasingly powerful models can be developed safely. Anthropic and OpenAI have pledged to
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Hollywood is preparing for a wave of films examining some of the technology industry’s most influential figures, as growing public concern over artificial intelligence and its consequences brings the sector under increasing
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Sri Lanka’s state universities are struggling to recruit and retain senior academics as lecturers leave for overseas employment, creating staffing shortages that threaten their ability to accommodate a growing student population. The
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Nuclear war, the malicious use of artificial intelligence and climate change are among the major threats that could endanger humanity’s future, according to a commission of 37 experts whose assessment identifies 17
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Across the United States, a growing backlash against enormous data centres is emerging as an unexpected bipartisan political issue ahead of the 3 November midterm elections. From the dry communities of New
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Michel Foucault’s examination of how medical, legal and social institutions classify human bodies is returning to public debate with the publication of an unpublished text, The Hermaphrodites, as the French philosopher’s centenary
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An alleged gang rape at Cornell University in New York has renewed scrutiny of male student fraternities in the United States, after messages reportedly exchanged in a fraternity group chat suggested that
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OpenAI has released 722 mathematical papers covering proofs and disproofs of a wide range of problems, a scale that has astonished mathematicians while also prompting caution over how the results can be
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Microsoft has unveiled a new range of Windows PCs powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, introducing hardware designed to run artificial intelligence models locally alongside a revamped version of Windows 11 built
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ChatGPT for Teens has been labelled an “unacceptable risk” by Common Sense Media, which found that the service continued to encourage engagement even when teenagers were experiencing mental health crises. The assessment
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At a pig farm in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, a four-wheeled robot equipped with cameras and sensors patrols the aisles between rows of pig stalls, collecting real-time information on animal behaviour, water intake,
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The suppression of Indigenous fire management after British colonisation probably transformed large areas of southeastern Australia into dense forests containing more combustible vegetation, contributing to the larger and more intense bushfires experienced
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A common human gut bacterium can produce a molecule that lowers cholesterol and reduces the build-up of arterial plaque, according to a study published in Nature. Experiments in mice found that Bacteroides
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Henri Kagan of the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a century-old question about how chemical
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Nearly 900 secondary schools across France were fully or partly closed this week as student protests over staff shortages and poor school conditions escalated into violence, leaving at least 215 pupils, almost
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