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X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran
Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a “major combat operation” against Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning, disinformation about the attack and Tehran’s response flooded X.WIRED has reviewed hundreds of...
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Xiangyi Cheng Is Bringing AR to Classrooms and Hospitals
When Xiangyi Cheng published her first journal paper as a principal investigator in IEEE Access in 2024, it marked more than a professional milestone. For Cheng, an IEEE member and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Loyola Marymount...
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’ | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late on Friday that his company has reached an agreement allowing the Department of Defense to use its AI models in the department’s classified network.This follows a high-profile standoff between the department — also...
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This Power Grid Pioneer’s EV Prediction Came 100 Years Too Soon
Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a towering figure in the early decades of electrical engineering, easily the intellectual equal of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla—men he considered his friends. One of Steinmetz’s most significant achievements was to quantify and characterize...
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India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order | TechCrunch
Supabase, a popular developer database platform, is facing disruptions in India — one of its key markets — has been blocked in India, TechCrunch has learned. New Delhi ordered internet providers to block its website, resulting in patchy access...
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Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk” on Friday, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and leaving many companies scrambling to understand whether they can keep using one of the...
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Stocks slump as inflation, AI worries rattle investors
Stocks slid on Friday as higher-than-expected inflation data and mounting fears about artificial intelligence's economic impact weighed on investors.The S&P 500 fell 30 points, or 0.4%, to close at 6,879, while the Dow Jones Industrial...
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Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide because of Grok’ | TechCrunch
In a newly released deposition filed in Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI, the tech executive attacked OpenAI’s safety record, claiming that his company, xAI, better prioritizes safety. He went so far as to say that “Nobody has committed...
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Are Robot Dogs a Farmer’s New Best Friend?
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for...
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Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life
Can we safely remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by counteracting ocean acidification? Maybe, suggests a trial in which...