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Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, began a new job in 2023 as the deputy director of a project at Yale Law School. As an activist who had championed pro-Palestinian causes in both published papers and public appearances, Dr. Doutaghi seemed to fit into the left-leaning mission of the Law and Political Economy Project,…
To win the artificial intelligence race, Google not only has developed its own technologies, but has also pumped money into prominent A.I. start-ups. And to preserve its competitive edge, Google has kept its ownership stakes in those start-ups a secret. Court documents recently obtained by The New York Times reveal Google’s stake in one of…
It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two…
A person walks past the entrance to a Google building in Dublin, Feb. 15, 2023. Artur Widak | Anadolu | Getty Images After landing internship offers from Amazon, Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco. But he won’t be joining any of those companies. Instead, Lee will…
Listen to article In a groundbreaking advancement that could change the future of computing, Chinese scientists have developed the world’s first carbon-based microchip capable of running artificial intelligence (AI) tasks using a revolutionary ternary logic system. This innovation, spearheaded by researchers from Peking University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, marks a significant leap forward in…
China, Russia and Iran will “very likely” use artificial intelligence to try and disrupt Canada’s next federal election, a new assessment from the Communications Security Establishment Canada says, but are unlikely to undermine the overall integrity of the vote. The annual report on cyber threats to Canadian democracy, released Thursday, said cybercriminals linked to those…
StubHub, a ticketing software company, has held talks with bankers in recent weeks about holding an initial public offering before the end of the year, two people with knowledge of the matter said, testing Wall Street’s appetite for a return of tech I.P.O.s. The talks are preliminary, said the people, who spoke on the condition…
A tech industry veteran, Mike McCue sees an opening for a different kind of internet where algorithms don’t call the shots. Mr. McCue, the chief executive of the internet company Flipboard, is challenging social media’s automated grip on our attention, betting that humans, not machines, should curate online experiences. Three decades ago, as vice president…
BYLINE: Amber Rose Newswise — Argonne researchers use Polybot, an AI-driven automated material laboratory, to produce high-conductivity, low-defect electronic polymer thin films. Plastic that conducts electricity might sound impossible. But there is a special class of materials known as “electronic polymers” that combines the flexibility of plastic with the functionality of metal. This type of material…
In the summer of 2005, Alexis Ohanian, a tech entrepreneur, sent an email to his colleague Steve Huffman with an ominous subject line: “Meet the enemy.” The body of the email contained just one line — a link to Digg, a community-focused social message board where people shared and discussed news articles and links to…
