From a cochlear implant designed to help users navigate noisy environments to a home-renovation solution that promises to transform a kitchen in just three days, this year’s China International Import Expo (CIIE)
From a cochlear implant designed to help users navigate noisy environments to a home-renovation solution that promises to transform a kitchen in just three days, this year’s China International Import Expo (CIIE)
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Economist Mariana Mazzucato has called for a fundamental restructuring of capitalism, arguing that economic policy must place public welfare ahead of private profit. In an interview with Der Spiegel, she said governments
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India is investing billions of dollars to establish itself as a major semiconductor manufacturing centre, but its strategy differs from the approach taken by the world’s leading chipmakers. Instead of entering the
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The concentration of advanced artificial intelligence in the hands of a small number of technology companies could allow private interests to control access to fundamental mathematical knowledge, leading researchers have warned. The
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Generative artificial intelligence has become a practical tool in terrorist and violent extremist activities, supporting attack planning, weapons acquisition, target selection and the preparation of ideological material, according to a new analysis
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Mathematicians around the world are struggling to come to terms with a breakthrough that has challenged their understanding of their profession and its future. On 6 October, OpenAI released 722 manuscripts generated
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Elon Musk has accused Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, of obstructing the expansion of Starlink into the country, turning a prolonged regulatory delay into a public dispute between two of the world’s
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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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Four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday after completing the fastest journey by a US spacecraft to the station. The crew, commanded by NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, reached the
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Claude is becoming increasingly capable and commercially valuable, while Anthropic is fighting Washington over autonomous weapons and surveillance. The company wants America to lead AI, but not at any price.
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A humanoid robot that cleans kitchens, scrubs toilets and folds laundry is now being rented to households in San Francisco, offering an early test of whether machines designed for factories can eventually
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China plans to complete a geological map covering the entire surface of Mars by the end of 2028, as Beijing prepares for its next major Martian mission and expands its capabilities in
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China’s rapid push into artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics is attracting billions of dollars in investment, but economists and business leaders are warning that the transformation carries risks ranging from excessive valuations
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Mark Zuckerberg is betting that Meta’s next major artificial intelligence product will become a personal agent capable of handling much of everyday life online. Muse, unveiled at Meta’s developer conference in Menlo
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The guillotine was designed to make execution faster and more efficient. But the experience of revolutionary Paris offers an unexpected analogy for the economic effects of artificial intelligence: greater efficiency does not
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