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Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.

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The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.

The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.

Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.

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Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones. The method pairs rejection sampling fine-tuning with hint-guided self-distillation. In a live A/B test, tool-call failures fell from 2.24% to 1.77% betw...

Researchers have shown that exotic quantum particles called non-Abelian anyons can perform the full range of operations needed for universal quantum computing. Using 54 qubits on Quantinuum’s H2 processor, they combined braiding and fusion to unlock capabilities that braiding alone could not provide...

I've been working in the AI space for about six and a half years. And one thing I can tell you with certainty is that the hardest part of any AI journey isn't getting started. It's what happens after the easy wins are gone.

Theory is easier to trust once it's running against a real API, so both examples in this article use the same tool — a get_weather function backed by <a href="https://open-meteo.

Three in four board members rate their AI knowledge highly, and their CEOs disagree. The gap shows up in a single prompt, and the fix takes about 30 seconds of extra typing...

The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.

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The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.

Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.

ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects anyway.

Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.

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The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.

In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.

This tutorial provides a complete coding guide to TypeSafe AI's Jev, a System One model designed for non-text, structured judgments. It covers installing the official Python SDK, using primitive question types (Choice, Score, Noul), implementing speculative fan-out, confidence-gated routing, and bui...

Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run lose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

AI systems excel at short‑term prediction but falter when asked to plan far ahead. This article explores the technical and conceptual reasons behind AI’s struggle with long‑term planning—from temporal discounting and static goals to missing causal models—and highlights emerging breakthroughs in temp...