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What’s next in chips

As cloud computing giants attempt to poach a bit of market share away from chipmakers, Nvidia is also attempting the converse. Last year the company started its own cloud service so customers... Read more »

Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI

First, more dedicated government AI supercomputers need to be built for an array of missions ranging from classified intelligence processing to advanced biological computing. In the modern era, computing capabilities and technical... Read more »

AI systems are getting better at tricking us

The fact that an AI model has the potential to behave in a deceptive manner without any direction to do so may seem concerning. But it mostly arises from the “black box”... Read more »

Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military

No one can make that choice for you. But I can say with confidence born of experience that such choices can be more easily made if workers know what exactly the companies... Read more »

The Download: mapping the human brain, and a Hong Kong protest anthem crackdown

The news: A team led by scientists from Harvard and Google has created a 3D, nanoscale-resolution map of a single cubic millimeter of the human brain. Although the map covers just a... Read more »

The burgeoning field of brain mapping

The work I wrote about last year is part of the $3 billion federally funded Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, which launched in 2013. In this project, led by... Read more »

Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its ban of a popular protest song

The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, not a criminal prosecution—meaning it is, at least legally speaking, closer to a... Read more »

Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its ban on a popular protest song

The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, not a criminal prosecution—meaning it is, at least legally speaking, closer to a... Read more »

Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its new ban of a popular protest song

The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, unlike a criminal prosecution—meaning it is, at least legally speaking, closer to a... Read more »

Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain

Many other brain atlases exist, but most provide much lower-resolution data. At the nanoscale, researchers can trace the brain’s wiring one neuron at a time to the synapses, the places where they... Read more »