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This week, the US and China, the two world leaders on AI, finally started talks meant to keep the whole world safe from emerging safety risks. But whether meetings between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping can lead to a…
He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. “The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers…
The firm, which has backed companies such as Anthropic, Cognition, Legora, Perplexity, Ramp, Shopify, and Waymo, dedicated $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage investing and the remaining $4 billion for growth…
The new Surface Pro 12-inch runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus , with Microsoft claiming up to 17% faster Office performance, 60% faster graphics and 95% faster on-device AI compared with previous generations. Battery…
This promises more performance and better efficiency without changing the lightweight design. The new Surface Laptop 13-inch is a fanless Windows PC with a full-size backlit keyboard, precision touchpad, aluminium body…
The big change is the new Snapdragon X2 Plus chip, which aims to be a solid update from the slower Qualcomm chips powering those devices last year. As Microsoft's smallest PCs, the key for both the Surface Pro 12 and…
Both will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus chips, which explains the venue choice. (I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that the Snapdragon Summit is held in Hawaii). According to Microsoft, the two…
Fire retardant balls dropped by Anduril's Ghost-X drone explode on a fire in a test. Credit: Anduril Industries Wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones featured among the finalists honored in the $11…
The Note Pro AI uses a Core Ultra 5 125U processor with 12 cores and 14 threads, alongside hardware dedicated to selected AI workloads. At 960g, the laptop combines a 10.51-inch screen with a physical keyboard while…
Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution. Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New York, which France convened. His company was the…