Fusion power is getting back to its roots. As fusion startups keep chasing their ultimate goal — putting electrons on the grid — many are also now embracing, or returning to, the defense applications that laid the foundation for the industry. The sector emerged decades ago when physicists looked for more constructive uses of the
Filming “The Uprising” gave British actor Woody Norman, who plays 14-year-old King Richard II in the historical fiction drama, a massive headache. It turns out the only crown they had for him to use during the shoot got damaged the first day of filming. “So it didn’t fit my head,” Norman, 17, tells me over
One question is dominating the tech world after an Anthropic researcher’s resignation this week: Could artificial intelligence kill us all? Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, said in an X post on Tuesday announcing his resignation from Anthropic that the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end
Google will buy up to half the electricity produced by one of Finland’s nuclear power plants as part of a record €13bn (£11bn; $15bn) investment in the country’s AI infrastructure, the company announced. The US tech giant said the package would fund three new data centres, expand an existing site and support energy projects to
Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones. Over and over again, they heard the same thing from fusion companies: “We would ideally buy many of the components to make our our control system,
The vital act of storytelling drives Casey Affleck’s “Company.” Knowing those stories and the people in them also passes on lessons learned involving grief, regret and forgiveness. The film premieres in competition at Venice. “Company” stars Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens, Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy, Emily Alyn Lind, Caylee Cowan and Atticus Affleck. The film jumps