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The Great American Microchip Mobilization

Under Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike, the US has been determined to “reshore” chipmaking. Now money and colossal infrastructure are flowing to...

Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World

OpenAI is evidently ramping up its own robotics efforts, too. Last week, Caitlin Kalinowski, who previously led the development of virtual and augmented...

The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun

Minecraft remains remarkably popular a decade or so after it was first released, thanks to a unique mix of quirky gameplay and open...

The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here

Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing American troops abroad, the US military is pulling out all the stops to...

I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars

For bird identification when the Bird ID setting is active, the AX Visio uses a modified version of Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the Center for Investigative...

AI helps robot dogs navigate the real world

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a possible shortcut for...

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning...

Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?

IN JULY last year Henry Kissinger travelled to Beijing for the final time before his death. Among the messages he delivered to China’s...

What Donald Trump’s Win Will Mean for Big Tech

The most raucous cheers of the night were prompted by Trump’s promise to fire Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission,...

A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI

Open-source software—in which a...