The Stargate project, led by OpenAI’s Sam Altman – to build the “world’s largest AI infrastructure” – was announced by Donald Trump at a special press conference at the White House. Elon Musk, however, has cast his doubt over the mega project.
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that scratched the sweet spot, extended a hand, went over the hill, and ended up on Mercury. First, a clever cow single-hoofedly upends assumptions about bovine intelligence. Next, we’ve got the oldest rock art ever discovered, the graying of modern zoos, and the delightfully…
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. An astronomer has reported a possible new signature of dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe, according to a study published on Tuesday in the Journal…
At Black Hat and DEF CON, cybersecurity experts were asked to game out how Taiwan could protect its communications and power infrastructure in case of invasion by China.
In the parking lot of Seven Oaks Element school in South Carolina on one of the first hot days of the year I watched an AI-generated George Washington talk about the American revolution. “Our rights are a gift from God, not a favor from kings or courts,” slop Washington told me. It spoke from a…
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss doxed Teslas, the concept of “amplification,” and how we’d much rather be looking at cooking videos than all this mess. EMANUEL: This week I published one of…
“We’ll have a generation of security professionals who can supervise AI but can’t function without it.” Categories: AI Research, Sophos Insights Tags: AI, AI Cybersecurity, AI RESEARCH, Generative AI, SOC
This week, we talk about how ‘Boring History’ AI slop is taking over YouTube and making it harder to discover content that humans spend months researching, filming, and editing. Then we talk about how Meta has totally given up on content moderation. In the bonus segment, we discuss the ‘AI Darwin Awards,’ which is, uhh,…
Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state
DeepSeek, a new Chinese AI chatbot startup is receiving new attention from Silicon Valley after a surprising launch.
