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After decades of promises, quantum machines have found their first commercially viable applications. They are not breaking encryption. They are optimizing supply chains.
New research from MIT quantifies the energy cost of inference at scale. The numbers are uncomfortable for an industry that has largely avoided environmental…
AI-assisted exploit development has lowered the barrier to cybercrime so dramatically that security researchers are struggling to describe what "skill" means in this new…
From France to Saudi Arabia to South Korea, governments are spending billions on homegrown large language models. The technical justification is weak. The political…
Two years after Meta wrote down $50 billion on its virtual world ambitions, a different vision of immersive computing is gaining traction — in…
Nine months after implant surgery, Noland Arbaugh can do things with a brain-computer interface that researchers said were five years away. His story is…
As the big three cloud providers add increasingly similar features at increasingly similar price points, the companies that depend on them are asking a…
Synthetic voices trained on real human performances are now commercially viable. The legal, economic, and ethical consequences are arriving faster than the law can…
A decade after Tesla's first Gigafactory, the battery manufacturing landscape has been reshaped by Chinese competitors, South Korean chemistry, and a European industry that…
