World’s first major act to regulate AI

The European Union’s parliament approved the world’s first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment.

Two artificial intelligences talk to each other

After learning and performing a series of basic tasks,  this AI was able to provide a linguistic description of them to a ''sister'' AI, which in turn performed them.

AI Predicts Alzheimer's 7 Years Early

Researchers have developed an AI method that can predict Alzheimer’s Disease up to seven years before the onset of symptoms.

Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers

The team behind the research, from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), says that the work has huge potential, not just for boosting hardware performance but also increasing efficiency and significantly reducing energy use.

Australian researchers make water battery breakthrough

Researchers at RMIT University find a way to replace the electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries with water, an innovation that could remove the fire risk entirely.

3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that optical data storage capacity can reach the petabit (Pb) level. The storage capacity within the area of a DVD-sized disk is equivalent to at least 10,000 Blu-ray disks.

A new AI tool could transform video production and amplify disinformation risks

OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. The high quality of the sample outputs published so far has provoked both excited and concerned reactions.

Reactor's final experiment breaks nuclear fusion record

The JET tokamak set a new world record for generating energy from nuclear fusion during its final experiment.

Elon Musk's Neuralink Has Implanted Its First Chip in a Human Brain

Billionaire technologist Elon Musk announced this week that his company Neuralink has implanted its brain-computer interface into a human for the first time.

NASA Reveals X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft

NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to gather data that could revolutionize air travel.

Breakthrough in quantum computing with stable room temperature qubits

Scientists achieve groundbreaking room-temperature quantum coherence for 100 nanoseconds, propelling molecular qubits closer to practical quantum computing.

A new supercomputer aims to closely mimic the human brain

A supercomputer scheduled to go online in April 2024 will rival the estimated rate of operations in the human brain, according to researchers in Australia. The machine, called DeepSouth, is capable of performing 228 trillion operations per second.

World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan

Japan's joint fusion reactor project with the European Union (EU), the JT-60SA, was inaugurated in Naka, Japan on Friday, marking the start of experimental operations for the world's biggest and most advanced tokamak.

China deploys first of its kind underwater data center

The 1,300-tonne system is submerged 35 meters underwater and uses the sea to cool its compute. 

ChatGPT turns 1

As a result, another lesson that everyone – users of ChatGPT or not – will have to learn in the blockbuster technology’s second year is to be vigilant when it comes to digital media of all kinds.