Research finds AI users scarily willing to “surrender” their cognition to LLMs

On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review ...

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released the latest version of its open AI model, Gemma 4, on Thursday. Crucially, Gemma 4 is a fully open-source ...

Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license

Like past versions of its open-weight models, Google has designed Gemma 4 to be usable on local machines. That can mean ...
University of California

Speak Up for Science

Science makes our lives better. Now it’s at risk. Join us in supporting life-saving research. New technologies that make life easier and keep communities safe. Congress funded American science as part ...
The Economist

Data centres in space: less crazy than you think

ELON MUSK thinks it will be feasible “within two years, maybe three at the latest”. Sam Altman of OpenAI says it is “ridiculous…we are not there yet”. Google plans to test the concept next year. Eric ...
HUB

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship comes to Johns Hopkins

This summer, Johns Hopkins will host a graduate student fellowship designed to prepare emerging data scientists to leverage the latest developments in generative artificial intelligence and machine ...
Reuters

China plans space‑based AI data centres, challenging Musk's SpaceX ambitions

SpaceX's planned IPO expected to develop space AI data centre buildout China's plans for space tourism signal a shift in space ambitions China's new spaceflight academy aims to foster talent for deep ...
The New York Times

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...
Los Angeles Times

This L.A. startup uses SpaceX tech to cool data centers with less power and no water

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the artificial intelligence industry heats up, Karman Industries is trying to cool it down. The Signal Hill ...
The Conversation

AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers ...
Pew Research Center

Do Americans Think the Country Is Losing or Gaining Ground in Science?

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...
Science Daily

AI may not need massive training data after all

New research shows that AI doesn’t need endless training data to start acting more like a human brain. When researchers redesigned AI systems to better resemble biological brains, some models produced ...