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A wave of retractions is shaking physics

Ziemelis also emphasized that “retractions are not always bad.” While some retractions occur because of research misconduct, “some retractions are of a much more innocent variety—the authors having made or being informed... Read more »

OpenAI and Google are launching supercharged AI assistants. Here’s how you can try them out.

On Tuesday, Google announced its own new tools, including a conversational assistant called Gemini Live, which can do many of the same things. It also revealed that it’s building a sort of... Read more »

Optimizing the supply chain with a data lakehouse

Until recently, access to the bulk of an organizations’ supply chain data has been limited to specialists, distributed across myriad data systems. Constrained by traditional data warehouse limitations, maintaining the data requires... Read more »

The Download: Google’s new AI agent, and our tech pessimism bias

What’s happening: Google is set to launch a new system called Astra later this year. It promises that it will be the most powerful, advanced type of AI assistant it’s ever launched. ... Read more »

Hong Kong is safe from China’s Great Firewall—for now

To read more about how this injunction is specifically designed for Western Big Tech platforms, and the impact it’s likely to have on internet freedom, you can read my story here. Aside... Read more »

Technology is probably changing us for the worse—or so we always think

“Consider the mental equipment of the average modern man,” he wrote. “Most of the raw material of his thought enters his mind by way of a machine of some kind … the... Read more »

Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent

Google is unveiling many more new AI capabilities beyond agents today. It’s going to integrate AI more deeply into Search through a new feature called AI overviews, which gather information from the... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and what’s coming at Google I/O

The news: OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI model that you can communicate with in real time via live voice conversation, video streams from your phone, and text. The... Read more »

What to expect at Google I/O

Since then, its ChatGPT competitor chatbot Bard (which, you may recall, temporarily wiped $100 billion off Google’s share price when it made a factual error during the demo) has been replaced by the more... Read more »

OpenAI’s new GPT-4o lets people interact using voice or video in the same model

GPT-4 offered similar capabilities, giving users multiple ways to interact with OpenAI’s AI offerings. But it siloed them in separate models, leading to longer response times and presumably higher computing costs. GPT-4o... Read more »