How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war…
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The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion
The Rationalists, a community focused on the risks of artificial intelligence, regularly gather with tech figures and other like-minded people…
Joby Will Buy Blade’s Helicopter Taxi Business for $125 Million
Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business of Blade, a New York helicopter operator, for…
Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could…
Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese
My initial tests revealed the text and prompt adherence was not noticeably better than Midjourney, the popular proprietary AI image…
Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI
AI coding requires a serious structural change. Where does that leave entry-level developers and the software industry as a whole?Read…
Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone
Why fulfilling the promise of AI requires a step-change in capabilities far exceeding the advancements of the internet era.Read More
Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato
Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between…
8 Best Handheld Gaming Consoles (2025), Tested and Reviewed
The second golden age of portable gaming is here. These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on…
What’s Inside the Tiny Miracle Food Pouches That Can Save the Lives of Starving Gazans
Packed with calories and protein, the same magic mixture has successfully treated famine for decades—but due to funding cuts it’s…