Anthropic’s sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions across the global technology industry. In India, the decision has reignited a long-running debate over whether one of the world’s…
Last week, President Donald Trump claimed a secret US mission had moved 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz while it was blockaded. The claim landed in an industry already consumed by the question of how much…
Neuroscience is helping to unlock the reasons why anorexia is so hard to treat Vicki Turner Thirteen years ago, I was on the brink of death. My nearly year-long battle with anorexia nervosa had reached a tipping point: tests showed…
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More than 3 million years ago, the famous early human ancestor Lucy and her relatives shared the landscape of East Africa with a formidable predator. Hidden in rivers and lakes, a massive crocodile with a distinctive hump on its snout…
The Apple Watch is the most popular smartwatch globally for a reason. Not only do they look great and offer comprehensive health-tracking and safety features, but they’re also extremely well-integrated with iPhones, making them helpful companion devices. However, all of…
According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the…
Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, completing an operational separation from the Chinese-founded AI startup and halting data sharing between the two companies. This is the most concrete step yet toward complying with a divestiture order…
We need one more thing—how about Newton’s second law? This says the acceleration depends on the net force (Fnet) and the mass (m) of an object. It’s usually written as Fnet = m × a, but we can rearrange it…
The Advantage2 quantum processing unit D-Wave A quantum computer is successfully mining cryptocurrency in the first experiment of its kind, while also using a lot less energy, researchers have claimed. Cryptocurrencies overlap with quantum computing in two notable ways. The…
AI stock investors have essentially been trained to follow a rule to invest in businesses closest to GPUs, data centers, and hyperscaler spending. Intel (INTC) CEO Lip-Bu Tan just flipped that script on the June 18 episode of No Priors:…
Image Credit: Getty Images Could two Off Campus co-stars have found love off set? Fans have been obsessed with the cast’s off-screen relationships ever since the show’s first season premiered on Prime Video. And one of the biggest questions circulating…
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