Hundreds of people gather in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to mark World Cancer Day on February 7, marching to raise awareness about cancer and the importance of early diagnosis. The World Health Organization cites Nigeria as a country with a rapidly increasing number of cancer cases. Emmanuel Osodi/Anadolu/via Getty Images hide title toggle title Emmanuel Osodi/Anadolu/via
This week a power line went down outside Washington, DC. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped consuming power almost simultaneously. The event caused voltage on PJM’s grid to spike from
Midjourney, an artificial intelligence lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has around 4.3 million monthly active users, is primarily used to help people determine their astrological birth charts, which they can then
My dad, who lives in Cairo, told me that the heat this summer has been exhausting. I asked him how hot it was. It said 39 degrees. “What is that in Fahrenheit?” I asked myself. He said “Hot!” I looked for it. It’s 102. And next week’s forecast: a high of 106. In the ’90s,
Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you create personalized social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open research tool. The company said this week that it added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that allows users to ask it for information and news that is spread through the broader Bluesky social
Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to accusations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and
