While the idea was first proposed more than 50 years ago, it proved impractical to implement with existing transistors and circuits. Earley, though, has completely rethought the hardware needed to make energy... Read more »

Lu is behind one of the coolest results in rejuvenation science—and in eye research. In 2018, while earning his PhD at Harvard Medical School, he used an age-reversal technique called reprogramming to... Read more »

The process relies on coal, and it generates roughly 7% of the carbon emissions that drive climate change—about as much as the fashion industry. Decarbonization has proved difficult: Profit margins are tight... Read more »

To achieve this, Hafner relies on something called model-based reinforcement learning. He develops world models—AI models designed to emulate physical reality—and trains agents within them. The agent essentially treats the model as... Read more »

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“We tend to think of AI as a single workload, and it’s not. It’s thousands, it’s millions, it’s billions of different workloads,” says Jim McGregor, founder and principal analyst, Tirias Research. AI... Read more »

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Bad actors could acquire the data, but purchase controls already mitigate that risk. Intelligence operatives scrutinize potential customers’ infrastructure for ways that data could reach enemies or nefarious actors.  Training data creates... Read more »

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