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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The AI learns it is about to be switched off and goes rogue, disobeying commands and threatening its human operators. It’s a well-worn trope in science fiction. We see it in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the premise of the...
Baafour Asiamah-Adjei ’03 is the founder and CEO of one of Ghana’s largest private power companies, Genser Energy—an entrepreneurial engineer who aims to deliver sustainable energy across West Africa. And he credits MIT with much of his success. But when he was applying to colleges, the Institute...
Plutôt que de créer des modèles spécialisés pour chaque domaine, les équipes de Google Research ont eu une idée beaucoup plus ambitieuse. Ils se sont demandé si un seul modèle pouvait prédire l’évolution de n’importe quelle série temporelle, qu’il s’agisse du cours du...
The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in January 2025 left an indelible mark on the Southern California landscape. The Eaton and Palisades fires raged for 24 days, killing 29 people and destroying 16,000 structures, with losses estimated at $60 billion. More than 55,000 acres were...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps...
In October, a new academic conference will debut that’s unlike any other. Agents4Science is a one-day online event that will encompass all areas of science, from physics to medicine. All of the work shared will have been researched, written, and reviewed primarily by AI, and will be presented using...
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an existential imperative. Space is the place. The final frontier. It is our human destiny to transcend our home world and expand our civilization to extraterrestrial vistas. This...
Last year, I added my DNA profile to a private genealogical database, FamilyTreeDNA, and clicked “Yes” to allow the police to search my genes. In 2018, police in California announced they’d caught the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded capture for decades. They did it by uploading...
Depuis ChatGPT, nous entendons toutes les prédictions sur l'emploi et notamment sur l'emploi dans la tech et l'IT en général. En juin dernier, la fondation Linux a publié le State of Tech Talent 2025. Pour les auteurs, l'impact de l'IA n'est aussi disruptif que le laisse entendre de nombreux médias...
Si vous planifiez un voyage aux États-Unis, vous savez surement déjà que vos téléphones et ordinateurs peuvent être fouillés par les douanes américaines. Sauf que depuis quelques jours, les chiffres relatifs à ces fouilles sont sortis. Entre avril et juin 2025, le CBP (Customs and Border...
Google has just released a technical report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one...
Oleh Kovalskyy thinks that Starlink terminals are built as if someone assembled them with their feet. Or perhaps with their hands behind their back. To demonstrate this last image, Kovalskyy—a large, 47-year-old Ukrainian, clad in sweatpants and with tattoos stretching from his wrists up to...