Agencies around the world should be able to receive hourly wildfire updates once about half of the constellation is operational, says Brian Collins, executive director of the Earth Fire Alliance. It hopes... Read more »

—Kevin Frazier is an assistant professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and senior research fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. In the past... Read more »

How to sound the alarm In theory, external whistleblower protections could play a valuable role in the detection of AI risks. These could protect employees fired for disclosing corporate actions, and they... Read more »

1 OpenAI has released an AI model with ‘reasoning’ capabilitiesIt claims it’s a step toward its broader goal of human-like artificial intelligence. (The Verge)+ It could prove particularly useful for coders and... Read more »

Suddenly everyone seemed to be rushing around, slipping past each other and trying to move quickly while avoiding collisions. “It’s all got a bit frantic, hasn’t it?” I heard one volunteer comment... Read more »

After each conversation, participants were asked the same rating questions. The researchers followed up with all the participants 10 days after the experiment, and then two months later, to assess whether their... Read more »

It is only available to researchers for now, but Ramaswami says access could widen further after more testing. If it works as hoped, it could be a real boon for Google’s plan... Read more »

Drones have come to define the brutal conflict in Ukraine that has now dragged on for more than two and a half years. And most rely on radio communications—a technology that Serhii... Read more »

Cement is one of our toughest challenges, as Brimstone CEO and 2024 innovator Cody Finke will tell you. I wrote about Brimstone and other efforts to reinvent cement earlier this year. Another... Read more »