Adobe made its name here on restraint. Project Indigo, the experimental iPhone camera app it launched a year ago, sold photographers a natural, SLR-like look. It skipped the heavy processing that most phone cameras bake in by default. The latest update…
On Sunday evening, as Spain and Argentina played out the World Cup final, the mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a short message on X. The Jacobian conjecture, he wrote, is false. He thanked a friend for asking about it, and another friend, “fable,” fo…
Somewhere in the past few months, a bond was filed, a plot of land changed hands, and the winner of a nine-figure construction project was quietly settled. No request for proposals had gone out. Most of the firms that might have chased the work did not…
Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on.
Britain wants to triple its data centre capacity by 2030. The trade body for the country’s water companies has told ministers there is not enough water to run them. Water UK, which represents England’s water suppliers, told MPs this week that the gover…
A London-based startup which is using AI to predict engineering and construction projects before they become live has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun. Called Casca…
Kanishka Narayan has become the first UK minister for artificial intelligence to sit at the cabinet table, a promotion that arrives as new prime minister Andy Burnham reshapes Whitehall around the technology. Narayan, the MP for the Vale of Glamorgan a…
The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the clearest sign yet that the two governments want to keep a …
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…
When Elizabeth Stone talks about the future of work at Netflix, she keeps circling back to a phrase that is easy to say and hard to pin down. Speaking on Lenny’s Podcast in mid-July, the streamer’s chief product and technology officer described “AI flu…