Peter Thiel backs $1 billion ocean data center start-up powered by waves
Peter Thiel is leading a $140 million investment in a US start-up that plans to use wave energy to fuel vast fleets of floating data centres, as Silicon Valley’s quest …
Frontier AI models are providing specific, actionable instructions to carry out a bioterror attack
Sign up today to see the future Cutting-edge innovations in science and technology cannot be forgotten There’s a pretty big list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help …
The federal data paradox: rich in data, poor in access
Industry results: Federal agencies have invested billions in data infrastructure. Much of that investment is still locked behind systems that front-line decision makers can’t interrogate without technical intermediaries. By casey …
A coding implementation to explore and analyze the TaskTrove dataset with streaming parsing visualization and validator detection
filename_counter: Counter = Counter() all_json_keys: Counter = Counter() samples_for_show: List = () for i, row in enumerate(tqdm(ds_test, desc=”inspecting structure”, total=200)): if i >= 200: break p = parse_task(row(“task_binary”)) if p(“format”) …
A developer’s guide to systematic prompting: mastering negative constraints, structured JSON output, and multi-hypothesis verbal sampling.
Most developers treat prompting as an afterthought – write something appropriate, observe the output and iterate if necessary. This approach works until reliability becomes critical. As LLMs advance into production …
Musk vs. Altman Week 1: Elon Musk says he’s been duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits XAI distills OpenAI’s model
“I was a fool to provide them with free funding to launch a startup,” Musk told the jury. He said that when he co-founded OpenAI with Altman and Brockman in …
AI is flooding music streaming services – but who wants it?
it is stepbackA weekly newsletter that presents an essential story from the tech world. Follow Terrence O’Brien for more on how AI is changing music and the music industry. stepback …
A common charging habit was silently draining my iPhone’s battery – here’s the solution
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a favorite source On Google. ZDNET Highlights Extreme temperatures are a major factor in premature battery failure. Car charging is a perfect storm …