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Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing

The same principle applies to quality operations. When Toyota Industries connected previously fragmented paint shop data, engineering and operations teams were given the context needed to understand defect drivers. The company reports... Read more »

How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom

Transformers form the backbone of electricity transmission and distribution, says Srdjan Lukic, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. In addition to doing the job of stepping... Read more »

Will the real Anthropic please stand up

I’m not saying they’re necessarily wrong about any of this. (That’s for another day.) But in a world where nobody knows what’s coming, companies like Anthropic get to fill the vacuum.  It’s... Read more »

The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms

 A teenager who develops an unhealthy attachment to an AI companion may never appear in a lawsuit or a newspaper, except in the most egregious cases. Neither will the student who begins... Read more »

The Download: everyday AI harms and the race to nuclear spaceflight

We have historically allowed debates over technology to be defined by the worst thing a product might do, with remarkably little discussion of the insidious damage it does every day. A third... Read more »

The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots

In the new Impossible issue of MIT Technology Review, we ran progress reports on six potentially transformative technologies and ideas that have been “just around the corner” for years, or even decades.... Read more »

In the biotech world, you can’t see everything

I couldn’t help feeling some empathy for Holmes, a mother we see preparing to leave her two kids for a lengthy prison sentence. And even though I have long known the facts,... Read more »

Designing an AI serving harness built to last

Increasingly, the answer depends on the serving harness—the engineering system surrounding the model, including the architecture, memory management, scheduling, and optimization decisions that determine how efficiently model intelligence becomes a production capability.... Read more »

The Foundations of Scalable AI

About the speaker Jing Wang, Principal, Center for AI and Insights, Vanguard Jing Wang leads Vanguard’s Center for AI & Insights (CAI), advancing the firm’s AI, machine learning, generative AI, and behavioral... Read more »

The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat

1 AI has uncovered a decade-old flaw threatening much of the webIt found flaws in PHP, the code behind most websites. (Reuters $)+ Governments are urging website owners to patch PHP or... Read more »