Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
What’s less clear—even among AI’s technical elite —is precisely how to keep these mercurial algorithms in check. In recent years researchers have thrown around all sorts of ideas for preventing AI from turning nasty.…
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FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
An AI tool is set to start advising air traffic controllers on managing air traffic in the congested airspace above the Washington, DC, area. The expected launch would be the first step toward a planned nationwide…
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Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel
The tool now allows you to launch multiple sessions related to a single project, burning through more resources and cash at once. Appropriately enough, the feature is called projects and can be accessed from the…
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New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead
The assistant seems to be independent of the malware’s operator, allowing the tool to work without requiring the operators to be present in real-time. The malware in question is called RedHat. It was discovered by…
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Stop paying for Google One: These Gmail cleanup steps freed up my inbox instantly
Still, the warning kept popping up. That's when I realized the problem wasn't the number of emails: it was what was inside them. Large attachments, old threads I never cleaned up, and years of forgotten files were…
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The new Resident Evil movie captures the survival horror magic of the games
The six Resident Evil movies starring Milla Jovovich were more interested in bombastic action. So leave it up to Zach Cregger, the director of Barbarian and Weapons , to crack the code of making a genuinely great…
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12 clever home office upgrades you didn't know you needed in Amazon's early Prime Day sale
And with Amazon launching its Early Prime Deals ahead of Prime Day on October 6-7, I've been digging through the sale to find the more interesting upgrades for home and office workspaces. Sure, we all want a nice…
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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
But despite its capabilities, he was disappointed. “We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful,” Almeida told TechCrunch. “I’ve been battling that problem since then. It took me a while to come to the…
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Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
ProLogium, which is building Europe’s solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku…
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Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate
The head of the continent's central bank, Christine Lagarde , said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China. The…
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