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Delivery Robots Navigate City Streets with 99.9% Safety Record
Autonomous delivery systems prove safer than human drivers.
Trump administration might not fight state AI regulations after all
Posted: The Trump administration has been targeting state-level AI regulation, with the president declaring ina social media postthis week that the industry needs “one Federal Standard instead of a p...
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An effective CRISPR RNA occlusion strategy enhances mismatch detection when using Cas13.
CRISPR Gene Therapy Cures Rare Genetic Disease in Clinical Trial
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AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk
Posted: What happens when the software that everyone’s racing to adopt becomes too risky for anyone to insure? According toreporting from the Financial Times, we’re about to find out. Major insurers...
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Spotify to raise US prices in first quarter of next year, report says
Posted: Spotify is planning to raise subscription prices in the U.S. in the first quarter of next year, according to a new report from theFinancial Times. The move will mark the streaming service’s f...
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The future will be explained to you in Palo Alto
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SpaceX Starship Successfully Completes First Mars Mission Simulation
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Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban, Pinterest exempted
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Facebook takes on Reddit with launch of nicknames for Facebook Groups
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Discovery Alert: 'Baby' Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!
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Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach
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Pew’s latest social media report shows X’s staying power in the US, despite competition
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Revolut hits $75B valuation in new capital raise
Revolut has raised new funding in a share sale that values it at $75 billion, positioning the British neobank as one of Europe’s most valuable private tech companies. The company said on Monday the d...
Uber and WeRide’s robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi is officially driverless
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Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy
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Trump Energy department drops renewables, promotes fusion in office reshuffle
Posted: The Trump administrationrevealedthis week a revamped organizational chart for the Department of Energy, one which dumps several offices focused on renewable energy while elevating fusion. Th...
Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat
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ChatGPT’s voice mode is no longer a separate interface
Posted: ChatGPT’s voice mode is getting more usable. OpenAIannouncedon Tuesday it is updating the user interface to its popular AI chatbot so users can access ChatGPT Voice right inside their chat, i...
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How OpenAI and Google see AI changing go-to-market strategies
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Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business
Posted: In order to accelerate the construction of new power plants needed to provide energy for its data centers, Meta is looking to get into the business of trading electricity. Bloomberg reportst...
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RNA structure modulates Cas13 activity and enables mismatch detection
An effective CRISPR RNA occlusion strategy enhances mismatch detection when using Cas13.
Dispatch: Partying at one of Africa's largest AI gatherings
Nyalleng Moorosi is part of a movement aimed at involving more African voices in AI policymaking.
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launchin November 2022.What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code withshort...