The pair met in Brussels just as a historic heat wave has Europeans rushing to buy air conditioners — mostly made in China. Europe has long resisted air conditioning as noisy, an eyesore on architectural facades and unnecessary, as brutal summer heat has been relatively short-lived. It also fears widespread adoption of the energy-hungry technology risks undermining the fight against climate change.

In short: Europe thinks it's winning. From the vantage point of the Euro Elite Blob, all they can see, in whichever direction they look, is win after win from foreground to horizon.

My basic experience of creating an AI image is like finding a neat rock. I'm not responsible for the shape of the rock at all, but I might be interested in putting it into an arrangement with other rocks and showing people my specific taste in neat rocks. Maybe I get some points for knowing where to look for the rock, for knowing broadly what types of rocks appear where.

In what other line of work do people get to ghost their employers for weeks or even months without explanation and keep their jobs? It only seems normal in the case of Congress because we're so used to it. As a reporter it is literally easier for me to find out classified Pentagon war plans than what's going on in Congress.

Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatGPT-user conversations, we find that more than one third of the conversations involve some form of fiction generation — including original stories, roleplay, fanfiction, and erotica. We identify common fiction generation patterns, including what we call 'infinite story demanders,' who repeatedly request and revise variations of the same or similar narratives over extended periods of time.

Anthropic is launching an internal drug discovery program with a focus on neglected diseases that traditional pharmaceutical companies would not consider commercially attractive.

Even at its most innocent, the widespread usage of the urgent-tense muddies these waters, proliferating a norm of cultural criticism that lives only in the present — fundamentally disconnected, as a result of its very style, from historical context or systemic analysis, and thus disconnected from a coherent politic (and coherent solutions).

Paradise Metal, a home-recorded album of doom metal, Christmas carols and religious dubstep that catapulted Father Tabakis from utter obscurity to cult status earlier this year, after experimental music bible Pitchfork conferred it a critics' score of 7.6 – higher than Aphex Twin's Drukqs or Daft Punk's Discovery.

Giving the ruling, Lord Justice Holgate said the tunnel extension and portal were authorised by the 2017 act, but that the planning permission under the act did not apply.

Positively, while many animal welfare issues remain stubbornly mired in the difficulty of political and behavioral change, technology may be the key to finally ending the unnecessary killing of male chicks in the egg industry.

The modern cell is like a Dreamliner, Adamala said, referring to the Boeing 787 airplane. We built a Wright flyer… the first bike frame with wings that flies 100 feet.

It left him with a core wound, and an animating question familiar to many superheroes: Is the universe a fundamentally safe place, or a fundamentally unsafe place? I don't say it's unsafe, but the world has always felt foreign to me.

Jedag-jedug reveals how global technologies are continually reinterpreted to serve local needs. Arranger keyboards engineered by multinational giants like Yamaha take on entirely new meanings the moment they enter Indonesian village parties.

The shingle-matrix approach represents a fundamental departure from traditional photovoltaic module construction, in which solar cells are cut into narrow strips and then arranged in a shingle-like pattern—overlapping and offset from one another—and connected using electrically conductive adhesives.

A group of fewer than 1,000 people made a series of horrible decisions, and the whole industry is paying for it.

But while each of the remaining 194 countries can indeed claim to be less than 5% of the problem, together they are responsible for just under half of humanity's yearly emissions.

In hardware, ambition, and in price, AR glasses are really moving this year, and a lot faster than you might expect. That's not to say that they're going to sell tons of units, or turn the computing world upside down, or kill the smartphone, but it's clear the time for sophisticated AR glasses is nigh.

Google no longer collects this information in a way that is susceptible to geofence warrants, and, more importantly, Apple never did.

He was referring to one of the couple's most strongly held—and counterintuitive—beliefs: that AI can actually help free us from technological exploitation. As they see it, the past two decades of social media—the selfies, the influencer worship, the addictive apps—have pushed humanity in terribly stupid directions.

There's this deep mystery there, which is: but what actually is this thing? We have a very literal answer, but the literal answer doesn't seem to necessarily provide a moral answer.