Three pieces of good news on climate change in 2024
[ad_1] Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit a new high, reaching 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024. This year is also on track to be the warmest on record, with temperatures through…
Accelerating AI innovation through application modernization
[ad_1] Yet realizing measurable business value from AI-powered applications requires a new game plan. Legacy application architectures simply aren’t capable of meeting the high demands of AI-enhanced applications. Rather, the…
The Download: digital twins, and where AI data really comes from
[ad_1] Steven Niederer, a biomedical engineer at the Alan Turing Institute and Imperial College London, has a cardboard box filled with 3D-printed hearts. Each of them is modeled on the…
BlueQubit raises $10M to take Quantum software into real-world applications
[ad_1] Integrating quantum computing into real-world computer applications is an ongoing problem, as the platforms are architected fundamentally differently. BlueQubit, a San Francisco-based quantum software startup founded by Stanford alumni,…
Google’s big week was a flex for the power of big tech
[ad_1] First: Gemini 2. It’s impressive, with a lot of performance updates. But I have frankly grown a little inured by language-model performance updates to the point of apathy. Or…
AI is changing how we study bird migration
[ad_1] In the late 1800s, scientists realized that migratory birds made species-specific nocturnal flight calls—“acoustic fingerprints.” When microphones became commercially available in the 1950s, scientists began recording birds at night.…
The Download: AI tracking birds, and a pig kidney transplant
[ad_1] In a warming world, migratory birds face many existential threats. Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their migrations, but each has…
This is where the data to build AI comes from
[ad_1] Their findings, shared exclusively with MIT Technology Review, show a worrying trend: AI's data practices risk concentrating power overwhelmingly in the hands of a few dominant technology companies. In…
AI’s search for more energy is growing more urgent
[ad_1] Why it matters: Anduril, other companies in defense tech, and growing numbers of people within the Pentagon itself are increasingly adopting a new worldview: A future “great power” conflict—military…
The Download: 2024’s biggest technology flops, and AI’s search for energy
[ad_1] They say you learn more from failure than success. If so, this is the story for you: MIT Technology Review’s annual roll call of the biggest flops, flimflams, and…
