Besides administering standardized pre-college tests, America’s nonprofit College Board designs college-level classes that high school students can take. But now they’re also crafting courses “not just with higher education at the table, but industry partners such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the technology giant IBM,” reports Education Week. Read more…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday walked back comments he made in January, when he cast doubt on whether useful quantum computers would hit the market in the next 15 years. At Nvidia’s “Quantum Day” event, part of the company’s annual GTC Conference, Huang admitted that his comments came out Read more…
Apple is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track after months of delays and stumbles. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has lost confidence in the ability of AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development, so he’s moving Read more…
The credit-card market has quietly split in two: one offering generous benefits to wealthy Americans, the other offering expensive debt to the poor. Credit-card balances have reached an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, with serious delinquency rates climbing to their highest point since the Great Recession. “Transactors” pay off balances Read more…
During the company’s GTC 2025 keynote today, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced Isaac GR00T N1 — the company’s first open-source, pre-trained yet customizable foundation model designed to accelerate the development and capabilities of humanoid robots. “The age of generalist robotics is here,” said Huang. “With Nvidia Isaac GR00T Read more…
Nature: A Microsoft researcher presented results behind the company’s controversial claim last month to have created the first ‘topological’ qubits — a long-sought goal of quantum computing. In front of a packed room at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Chetan Nayak, a theoretical physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum Read more…