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New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical navigation in fields such as orthopedics and neurosurgery.

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Responsible AI for Higher Education

This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do - as individuals, and members of their IEEE chapters. Participants will also ha…

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How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second. Benchmarks cited…

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Adversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms

AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates. But a public backlash is gaining momentum. Privacy concerns abound, encompassing the lack of consent for capturing data, how that data is stored and used, and th…

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Why Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses

Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish. Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee. Or the AI radio DJ that said its catchphrase, “Stay in the manifest,” 229 times per day. These incidents all emer…

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AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?

On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own text watermark (which Anthropic’s is based on) that it uses on the output of its…

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China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose. “He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar,” one user of Bytedance’s Douboa wrote, according to…

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AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code

AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed. Large language models can produce code that looks clean on the surface but con…

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Google DeepMind Maps 9 Billion Possible DNA Variants

DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is considered “noncoding.” Some of it has no known function, while other segments are cr…

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AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts

A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators watching over a system that rarely ne…

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Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of usi…

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New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box

Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response will vary. And you (and most worryingly, the people who built the LLM) have little idea exactly how it came up with that specific an…

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AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes

This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still lim…

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