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What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out.
13+ min ago (350+ words) Chatbots can talk with you. But what if they could talk to one another? So what is Moltbook: an overhyped gimmick? Or the start of what some have called the future of the internet? To find out, I sent in…...
Money Talks as India Searches for Its Place in Global A.I.
40+ min ago (1148+ words) The event promised to be a global coming-out party for India's artificial intelligence aspirations. The India A.I. Impact Summit has been a whirl of more than 300 exhibitors and 500 sessions, sprawled across 120 acres of New Delhi this week. The organizers expected 250,000 participants…...
What can toughen Louisiana coast against worsening storms? Four years and 30,000 trees
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (532+ words) MERAUX, La.Across the calm waters behind a pumping station near Lake Borgne, hundreds of saplings stand out in the mist, wrapped in white plastic cylinders. To get there and to other sites like it, organizers have ferried dozens of…...
Nvidia pushes into Intel and AMD’s turf with a ‘multigenerational’ Meta deal
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (407+ words) Meta is doubling down on its relationship with Nvidia in what the AI chip giant called a "multigenerational" deal. The agreement, announced Tuesday, calls for Meta to build data centers powered by millions of Nvidia's current and next-generation chips for…...
Google and Apple bring AI music creation to mainstream consumers
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (306+ words) Alphabet Inc.s Google and Apple Inc. are adding music-focused generative artificial intelligence features to their core consumer apps, underscoring how advanced AI tools are moving into mainstream use. Its popular image-creation model, Nano Banana, will also generate custom cover…...
Bald Eagle, Marooned on Ice Chunk in Hudson, Is Rescued by Police
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (630+ words) Over 16 years with the Harbor Unit of the New York City Police Department, Officer Michael Russo has rescued people in distress, and dogs, too. But never a bald eagle. Until Tuesday morning. Officer Russo and three colleagues were patrolling the…...
First Rule of Navigating Antarctic Seas? ‘Don’t Disobey the Ice.’
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (750+ words) The scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon can never get close enough to the Antarctic ice. They want the ship to sidle right up to the Thwaites Glacier so they can fly their helicopter-borne radar farther across it. They want the…...
Decoding the A.I. Beliefs of Anthropic and Its C.E.O., Dario Amodei
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (1128+ words) The Defense Department has approved the cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology built by the San Francisco start-up Anthropic for use with classified tasks. But Anthropic, led by its chief executive, Dario Amodei, does not want the Pentagon using the technology in…...
Deutsche Bank asked AI how it was planning to destroy jobs. And the robot answered
7+ hour, 18+ min ago (381+ words) The experiment, detailed in a report titled "What AI Says About AI Eating Itself and the World," utilized Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro model to generate a deep analysis of global sectors. The findings suggest that data-rich industries with repetitive tasks are…...
The West’s Winter Has Been a Slow-Moving Catastrophe
7+ hour, 44+ min ago (1136+ words) If you are reading this on the East Coast, congratulations on the warmer weather you're finally getting this week. It was cold and snowy for a while there. Here in the West, we wish we'd been in your shoes. Spare…...