AI/ML News

New AI method uses engineering knowledge to estimate disaster damage from incomplete satellite imagery

A new technology has been developed that can rapidly predict city-scale structural damage even when portions of satellite imagery are…

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I Found the 20 Best Prime Day Tech and Gadget Deals (October 2026)

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Agentic AI turns simple language into self-guided X-ray scans of microelectronics

Science has increasingly used artificial intelligence (AI) as a kind of microscope—sorting data, analyzing images and revealing hidden patterns. Now…

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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary

Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long Musk paint the world’s richest man as capricious…

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The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike

The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a…

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Visual illusion reveals what today’s AI vision is missing

Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are—and that may be a feature of how biological vision…

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Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

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This new qubit could be 100 times less error-prone in superfluid quantum computer breakthrough

A proposed qubit made with superfluid helium could cut quantum computing error rates by around 100 times by shielding quantum…

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Can a machine or AI agent be surprised? Helping autonomous systems respond to the unexpected

Let's say you ask ChatGPT a question that stumps it, or a Waymo vehicle encounters something unusual in the road,…

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