In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Paddy O’Connell, Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book, Signs from the Future, examining Donald Trump’s political legacy, the decline of the liberal international order and the
Colossal Biosciences, the Texas startup aiming to resurrect the woolly mammoth, is also seeking to own it—legally. As reported by MIT Technology Review, the company has filed a sweeping patent application that
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The AI-powered, intuition-first approach to coding is gaining momentum. But is it ready for prime time? In February, OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy introduced the internet to a new kind of software development:
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Artificial intelligence, once a far-off dream discussed in stuffy lecture halls, is now making chart-worthy beats. According to a recent deep dive from MIT Technology Review, new AI models—especially diffusion-based systems—are creating
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The Pentagon has entered a new chapter in its AI journey—one defined by the deployment of generative AI in real-world military operations. As reported by MIT Technology Review, the U.S. Department of
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A group of US professors has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in response to its threat to withhold $8.7 billion in federal funding from Harvard University. The lawsuit, backed by
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A new wearable device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help visually impaired individuals navigate their surroundings is showing early signs of promise, outperforming traditional white canes in controlled trials. As reported
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A bold and unconventional technology is gaining traction among physicists aiming to reshape the future of particle physics. Known as wakefield acceleration, the technique offers the potential to shrink massive particle colliders
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Nato has acquired an artificial intelligence-powered military system from Palantir Technologies, the US software company chaired by Peter Thiel, a prominent backer of Donald Trump, in a move that signals both urgency
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A decade after Vincent Stenberg made medical history in Sweden as the world’s first baby born from a transplanted womb, Britain has now celebrated its own historic moment with the birth of
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OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has escalated its ongoing legal battle with Elon Musk, accusing the billionaire of launching a “campaign of harassment” designed to destroy the company. In a countersuit filed
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Global electricity consumption by data centres is on course to more than double by 2030, largely driven by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the International
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MIT Technology Review explores the rise of co-creativity in the age of generative tools In a low-lit loft in East London, techno music pulses through the speakers as Lizzie Wilson types code
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AI might one day help slash carbon emissions—but right now, it’s doing the opposite. A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), covered in MIT Technology Review, suggests AI could eventually
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The sequencing of complete ape genomes marks a significant milestone in genetics, providing researchers with a clearer understanding of what makes humans distinct from other species. This achievement, which has been more
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From the depths of the oceans to the cells in our bodies, an unseen war has been raging for billions of years — between bacteria and the viruses that attack them. This
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