Take lithium, a crucial component in those batteries. China has around 8% of the world’s lithium reserves but processes about 58% percent of the world’s lithium supply. The situation is similar for... Read more »

I tried to trip Astra up, but it was having none of it. I asked it what famous art gallery we were in, but it refused to hazard a guess. I asked... Read more »

—Melissa Heikkilä Like many others, I recently joined Bluesky. On Thanksgiving, I was delighted to see a private message from a fellow AI reporter, Will Knight from Wired. Or at least that’s... Read more »

Both accounts were eventually deleted, but not before trying to get me to set up a crypto wallet and a “cloud mining pool” account. Knight and Marx confirmed to us these accounts... Read more »

AI’s hype and antitrust problem is coming under scrutiny The AI sector is plagued by a lack of competition and a lot of deceit—or at least that’s one way to interpret the... Read more »

I was here to examine the pitch being made by Anduril, other companies in defense-tech, and growing numbers within the Pentagon itself: A future “great power” conflict—military jargon for a global war... Read more »

Last Thursday, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Eric Schmitt introduced a bill aimed at stirring up more competition for Pentagon contracts awarded in AI and cloud computing. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle currently... Read more »

What is Sora? Sora is a powerful AI video generation model that can create videos from text prompts, animate images, or remix videos in new styles. OpenAI first previewed the model back... Read more »

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