Think of AI training as a room full of people working calculators. For years, adding computational power meant adding more people with calculators to that room. Much of the time those workers... Read more »
Membrane technologies have made up essentially all new desalination capacity in recent years; the last major thermal plant built in the Gulf came online in 2018. Many reverse osmosis plants still rely... Read more »
In an agent-first enterprise, AI systems operate processes while humans set goals, define policy constraints, and handle exceptions. “You need to shift the operating model to humans as governors and agents as... Read more »
These conversations have unsurprisingly left many workers in a panic (and are probably contributing to support for efforts to entirely pause the construction of data centers, some of which gained steam last... Read more »
Large structures with hundreds of square meters of solar arrays would quickly suffer damage from small pieces of space debris and meteorites, which would over time degrade the performance of their solar... Read more »
Plastic production accounts for roughly 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions today. And our current moment shows just how embedded oil and gas products are in our lives. It goes far beyond... Read more »
Zeus is a data recorder for Micro1, which sells the data he collects to robotics firms. As these companies race to build humanoids, videos from workers like Zeus have become the hottest... Read more »
Investors are pouring money feverishly into solving this challenge, spending over $6 billion on humanoid robots in 2025. And at-home data recording is becoming a booming gig economy around the world. Data... Read more »
Across the organizations where this approach has emerged and started to be applied, the first step is shifting the unit of analysis. For example, in one UK hospital system in the period... Read more »
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 California has defied Trump to impose new AI regulations Governor Newsom signed off on the new standards yesterday. (Guardian) + Firms seeking... Read more »