The role of teachers will be essential in imparting excitement about learning as students get to grips with using AI tools.Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/Getty Will artificial intelligence damage the ability of humans to think critically? This has become an urgent question for those involved in education, from early-years teachers to trainers of experienced working
GAIA is a scanning transmission electron microscope with a built-in system to cool samples to ultra-low temperatures with liquid helium. Credit: Cameron Johnson When it comes to imaging materials, the colder the sample is, the better. At room temperature, atoms hum with thermal energy and appear blurry in images, but at ultra-cold temperatures, near absolute
Often used as shorthand for two opposing sides of America, California and Texas have finally found common ground — on data centers breaking ground. The two most populous US states announced limits on data center development on Monday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a package of new laws regulating data centers. The laws require
CinemaChile unveils its 2026-2027 catalog at the San Sebastián Festival on Sept. 21 where it has much to celebrate, with eight titles screening across seven sections, led by Pablo Larrain’s “My Sad Dead,” a 4-part Netflix series that has been combined to make a roughly three-hour feature that competes for the Golden Shell. Unsurprisingly, the
Don’t let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn’t a doomer. Nvidia’s CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday. He accused the leaders of the frontier AI labs of being disingenuous in their warnings that, without more AI oversight, the products they are building could harm humanity
We’re seeing a big debate over AI safety and a potential slowdown, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a plan to “pace the frontier,” while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly echoed President Donald Trump’s claims that the AI backlash is a hoax and regulation is unnecessary. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity
