An annual report on AI progress has highlighted the increasing dominance of industry players over academia and government in deploying and safeguarding AI applications. The 2023 AI Index — compiled by researchers from Stanford University as well as AI companies including Google, Anthropic, and Hugging Face — suggests that the Read more…
The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. The Amazon Web Services accelerator, revealed Tuesday, is a 10-week program aims to “empower companies applying generative AI to solutions from legal and marketing, to software engineering, green energy, and life sciences, including drug discovery.” It Read more…
Cruising at a depth of 8,336 meters (over 27,000 feet) just above the seabed, a young snailfish has become the deepest fish ever filmed by scientists during a probe into the abyss of the northern Pacific Ocean. Scientists from University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Read more…
Spring break is here, and summer vacations are just around the bend. But while increasingly stressed-out US workers say having paid time off is critical, many still don’t even take all that they’re allowed. Only 48% of US workers say they use all their vacation days, according to a new Read more…
The U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA) is funding a 6-year, up to $300 million project to build a massive Alzheimer’s research database that can track the health of Americans for decades and enable researchers to gain new insights on the brain-wasting disease. The NIA, part of the government’s National Read more…
America’s Department of Defense is gearing up for a future conflict in space, as China and Russia deploy missiles and lasers that can take out satellites and disrupt military and civilian communications. The White House this month proposed a $30 billion annual budget for the U.S. Space Force, almost $4 Read more…
The Evening Standard interviewed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in a piece headlined “Will Wikipedia be written by AI?” “The discussion in the Wikipedia community that I’ve seen so far is…people are cautious in the sense that we’re aware that the existing models are not good enough but also intrigued because Read more…