3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (788+ words) Environmental and scientific organizations are uniting to try to stop SpaceX's Elon Musk and Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos from placing one million data center satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Musk and Bezos both have considerable stakes in AI companies,…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (661+ words) A year ago, CEOs were warning that AI would be responsible for a job apocalypse in America. Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley said, “Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S," adding:…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (609+ words) Now that you've read the headline, I'll show you the numbers, and you'll probably say, "OH NO WAY!" But indulge me, won't you? Ars Technica's senior space guy Eric Berger looked at how much it might cost SpaceX to fulfill…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (502+ words) The promise of artificial intelligence and its limitless uses is both sublimely beautiful and detrimental to the human capacity to think and to reason. Ethan Seigel, writing in Nautilus, gives an example of the potential danger of AI. A recent…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (363+ words) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a game-changing AI model that it claims closes the performance gap between China and the U.S. in frontier AI systems. U.S. companies held a clear lead at the forefront of AI capabilities. AI developers believed the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1537+ words) Note: Most Thursdays, I take readers on a deep dive into a topic I hope you'll find interesting, important, or at least amusing. These essays are made possible by — and are exclusive to — our VIP supporters. If you'd like to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (701+ words) Last week, U.S. tech company Nvidia made a remarkable announcement. Its new server architecture relies on a recirculating coolant system, reducing water intake to near-zero. This innovation addresses one of the biggest concerns opponents have raised about data centers, namely the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (738+ words) Before ransomware gangs became billion-dollar criminal enterprises, before nation-state hackers started treating America's infrastructure like a proving ground, and before every company hired an army of cybersecurity consultants, someone made a very expensive decision. They shipped the software anyway. That,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (237+ words) The importance of value-producing cultures is increasing rather than declining with the advance of technology. The recent UN proposal to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) is a backhanded acknowledgement that many major civilization-changing developments in the last half century, such as…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (172+ words) America’s founders did not design a country for efficient rulers. They designed a country for free people. That has always made us slower, noisier, messier, harder to govern, and wonderfully irritating to every expert who thinks mankind would be easier…...