On the heels of Waymo’s commercial launch on Wednesday, investment bank UBS estimates that Alphabet’s self-driving car unit will reel in $114 billion in revenue in 2030. Alphabet’s self-driving car unit could book $114 billion […]

Progress towards fully capable and practical quantum computers isn’t slowing down, and researchers from Google are the latest to announce a significant step forward in the capabilities of today’s machines. While we call these devices […]

Meta’s massive, 70-billion parameter LLaMA 2 has been outflanked by the newly released 180-billion parameter Falcon Large Language Model. The artificial intelligence community has a new feather in its cap with the release of Falcon […]

New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask. Should companies have social responsibilities? Or do they exist only to deliver profit to their shareholders? If you […]

A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways. ChatGPT made it possible for anyone to play with powerful artificial […]

As generative AI models become increasingly capable, “foundation model” is a relatively new term being tossed around. So what is a foundation model? The term remains somewhat vague. Some define it by the number of […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says there was “overwhelming consensus” for regulation on artificial intelligence after tech heavyweights gathered in Washington to discuss AI. Tech bosses attending the meeting included Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google boss […]

A serial entrepreneur and investor, Betts-LaCroix founded Retro in 2021 to develop cellular reprogramming, autophagy and plasma-inspired therapeutics, with the goal of increasing healthy human lifespan by 10 years. A former Harvard, MIT and Caltech […]

Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out. When a startup called Retro Biosciences eased out of stealth mode in […]

Efforts to replicate the material have pieced together the puzzle of why it displayed superconducting-like behaviours. But researchers seem to have solved the puzzle of LK-99. Scientific detective work has unearthed evidence that the material […]

Elon Musk’s biotechnology startup Neuralink raised $280 million in a fundraising round, the company announced. The Series D round was led by Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based VC firm established by Peter Thiel, the controversial […]

We are being lied to. Our civilization is built on technology. We believe technology is a lever on the world – the way to make more with less. We are being lied to. We are […]

Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought. “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” is a pixelated pastoral scene of train […]

Financially, the sharing economy darling is thriving, but guests, hosts, and cities have had enough. “When Airbnb rolled out, everybody thought it was going to kill hotels, and it really just became hotels.” Airbnb knows […]

Rather than sell software to improve an end-user’s productivity, founders should consider what it would look like to sell the work itself. For the past 25 years, application software startups have had a singular focus: […]

John Thornhill, the founder of Sifted, argues that the boom is over but Silicon Valley’s optimism is masking problems with investor capital and returns. In these grim times, the world could do with a shot […]