Google is adding a selfie video option as a new way for users to log into their accounts, the company announced Thursday, joining a growing wave of technology companies betting that biometrics, not passwords, are the future of online identity verification. The tech giant says selfie videos give users more options for logging in if
Nvidia’s efforts to deploy its GPUs throughout the world point to a new goal: the Moon. Lunar Outpost, a startup that builds robotics for space infrastructure, announced Thursday that its lunar rover will use Jetson chips to control its LiDAR system. When it does, it will likely be the first GPU on the lunar surface.
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OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, about 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The renewed blitz comes as its Stargate data center project appears to have stalled. The first salvo in OpenAI’s spending spree will be a $20 billion data center
White House science adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest open-weight LLM available, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that are not authorized for export to China. “Large-scale covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing patented American technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,”
