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Nvidia rivals focus on building a different kind of chip to power AI products

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which dominates the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom. But the same qualities that make those graphics processor chips, or GPUs, …

Elon Musk’s new job will bring tech ‘disruption’ to the US government – and history says it won’t be pretty

On November 12, United States president-elect Donald Trump announced he would appoint Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, to lead a newly constituted …

As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction

The original idea for the world wide web emerged in a flurry of scientific thought around the end of World War II. It began with a hypothetical …

How the Trump tariffs on Taiwan chips could hurt the AI trade — and the likes of Nvidia

President-elect Donald Trump made raising tariffs on imported goods a tenet of his reelection campaign. And while that could raise prices on …

AI’s Fingerprints Were All Over the Election

But deepfakes and disinformation weren’t the main issues. The images and videos were hard to miss in the days leading up to November 5. There was Donald Trump with the chiseled musculature of Superman, hovering over a row of skyscrapers. Trump and Kamala Harris squaring off in bright-red uniforms …

AI is already taking jobs, research shows. Routine tasks are the first to go

Researchers studied how the arrival of ChatGPT affected freelance jobs. Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are already impacting the job market. A new study shows a 21% reduction in demand for freelance jobs that are automation-prone and don’t require consistent human attention. Researchers from …

Saltwater flooding is a serious fire threat for EVs and other devices with lithium-ion batteries

Flooding from hurricanes Helene and Milton inflicted billions of dollars in damage across the Southeast in September and October 2024, pushing …

ChatGPT will soon be able to see your Mac apps and provide real-time advice — this is huge

ChatGPT is now able to access the contents of your apps on macOS. The new feature is designed to make it easier to get the AI's input on what you're …

Done With Elon? How to Get Started on Bluesky Social

Bluesky has seen a surge of sign-ups as people look for a Twitter-like experience minus the toxicity of Elon Musk's X. Here’s how to set up and use …

Behind the Curtain: The Trump, Musk fusion

President-elect Trump and Elon Musk, two billionaires with strikingly similar DNAs, are fusing into a new, powerful governing-media paradigm. Why it …

Tech firms like to make cancelling subscriptions infuriatingly hard – but regulators are starting to crack down

Imagine your favourite author has a new book coming out, and your local bookshop is offering to deliver it to you for free on publication day. All …

LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman on staying positive after Trump’s win

On the latest episode of the ‘Rapid Response’ podcast, the Democratic mega-donor talks about how the election results will impact Silicon Valley. Following Donald Trump’s election victory, Reid Hoffman—cofounder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock, and a major donor to Vice President Kamala Harris’s …

Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no, actually

Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. …

What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief

Beliefs are convictions of reality that we accept as true. They provide us with the basic mental scaffolding to understand and engage meaningfully in …

Moderna, Lily, Novavax, and Pfizer stocks fall after Trump nominates RFK Jr. as health secretary

The Make America Healthy Again PAC is celebrating Kennedy Jr.’s nomination by President-elect Trump to run the HHS. Vaccine makers likely aren’t. Shares in some of America’s largest drug manufacturers tumbled yesterday after President-elect Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick …

We passed 1.5°C of human-caused warming this year (just not as the Paris agreement measures it)

Human-caused global warming has just nudged past 1.5°C, according to a new method we have developed. That’s approaching 0.2°C higher than previously …

Dementia warning as this popular drink found to ‘speed up’ Alzheimer’s

Many of us are aware of the fact that consuming alcohol generally is not good for our health. Drinking too much is known to raise your risk for liver …

Ozempic can lead to muscle mass loss: Study

Ozempic, an FDA-approved treatment for type 2 diabetes, blew up when people began using it as a weight loss drug. Since then, various medical studies …