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The Download: the mystery of LLMs, and the EU’s Big Tech crackdown

Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri Edwards, researchers at OpenAI, were trying to find out what it would take to get a large language model to do basic arithmetic. At first,... Read more »

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.

“These are exciting times,” says Boaz Barak, a computer scientist at Harvard University who is on secondment to OpenAI’s superalignment team for a year. “Many people in the field often compare it... Read more »

Casinos virtuais em Portugal em 2025

A área do jogo online em Portugal vive uma fase de melhoria constante, o que se tornou um poderoso avanço na área do entretenimento virtual do estado. Graças ao progresso da inovação... Read more »

The tech that helps these herders navigate drought, war, and extremists

Orenstein and the Garbal team—roughly a dozen local data analysts, project managers, digital finance experts, and tele-agents with degrees in livestock management and applied agriculture—have designed different tools for herders’ needs. For... Read more »

The Download: tech help for herders, and bacteria clean-ups

1 AI is unleashing a data center goldrushIt could rise from 2% of the global data center footprint to 10% by 2025. (NYT $)+ AI’s carbon footprint is bigger than you think. (MIT Technology... Read more »

How some bacteria are cleaning up our messy water supply

It’s not just medicines. A dizzying number of personal care products also end up in the sewers—coconut shampoos and hydrating body washes and expensive face serums and … well, the list goes... Read more »

Why shiny, high-tech solutions won’t solve one of Africa’s worst crises

Orenstein and the Garbal team—roughly a dozen local data analysts, project managers, digital finance experts, and tele-agents with degrees in livestock management and applied agriculture—have designed different tools for herders’ needs. For... Read more »

The Download: quantum squeezing, and a game-building AI model

How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors When two black holes spiral inward and collide, they shake the very fabric of space, producing ripples in space-time... Read more »

Google DeepMind’s new generative model makes Super Mario-like games from scratch

“It’s cool work,” says Matthew Gudzial, an AI researcher at the University of Alberta, who developed a similar game generator a few years ago.  Genie was trained on 30,000 hours of video... Read more »

Generative AI: Differentiating disruptors from the disrupted

The overarching message from this research is that plans among corporate leaders to disrupt competition using the new technology—rather than being disrupted–—may founder on a host of challenges that many executives appear... Read more »