We May Be Alone in the Universe, but It’s Not a Problem
Silence. Complete, unnerving silence. Despite decades of searches for any form of life, intelligent or otherwise, out there in the cosmos, the Universe has but one message for us: No one is answering. But that solitude is not a curse. The great expanse of the empty heavens above us does not carry with it an
Google revolutionizes cloud computing with AI for developers and everyday users
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More With all the AI news flying in and out (I/O — get it?) at the Google I/O conference today, it’s easy to be overwhelmed with just how deeply generative AI is being
AI Startup Together Secures Funding for Open-Source AI and Cloud Platform
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Together, an open-source AI startup, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding to support its mission of creating decentralized alternatives to closed AI systems and democratizing AI for
Google Enhances Bard to Take on ChatGPT in Conversational AI Race
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More In November 2022, ChatGPT was first unleashed by OpenAI. Google (and everyone else) has been playing catch-up ever since. Google, with its own conversational AI tool, Bard, is now done playing catch-up
New Animal Family Tree Sparks Inquiry into the Evolution of Nervous Systems
Ask someone to think of an animal, and chances are they'll come up with one of our relatives among the mammals. A few people might go further afield and mention other vertebrates, like birds and fish. But these barely scratch the surface of animal diversity, with things like cephalopods, insects, and echinoderms all having distinct
Deloitte: Operating Without Ethical Tech Standards Poses Risks, Say Executives
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Executives recognize the greatest risk of operating without ethical tech standards can have widespread negative impacts, particularly on their people, according to a survey by Deloitte, the global consulting and financial company. Deloitte is releasing its Ethics &
NASA’s Artemis Program Faces Budget Crunch as Costs Escalate
The Artemis program to return humans to the Moon has an aura of inevitability now, with broad political support, robust international participation, and a successful first mission—Artemis I—under its belt. Perhaps most critically, for Artemis, is that in a rare show of bipartisanship, both Republicans and Democrats support NASA's plan to send humans to the
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Supports Creation of AI Regulatory Agency in Senate Testimony
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More In his testimony today before a bipartisan U.S. Senate panel, in which he agreed with calls for a regulatory agency for AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was not grilled, probed or interrogated
French Painters Inspire New Insights into the Physics of Soap Bubbles
French painters Jean Siméon Chardin and Édouard Manet both created well-known paintings that depicted children blowing bubbles through straw-like tubes, albeit more than a century apart. Those realistic depictions of bubble dynamics have now inspired two physicists at the Université Grenoble Alpes in France, who conducted their own soap bubble experiments to learn more about
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Testifies Before Congress During Pivotal Moment for AI
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Get your popcorn ready: At 10 am EST, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes his first appearance testifying before a U.S. Senate panel, at a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on
