Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s decision not to embed generative AI into its browser, arguing that built-in…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on AI chatbots available to teenagers after reports that some…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because its decentralised software lacks…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build
Summary The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China has been switched on after more than a decade of construction. The detector sits about 700 metres under a mountain and…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void
Summary Alibaba, China’s largest cloud-computing company, has developed a domestically manufactured AI inference chip now in testing to help plug the gap left by US restrictions on Nvidia sales to…
New Python Documentary Released On YouTube
New Python Documentary Released On YouTube Summary An 84-minute documentary now on YouTube traces Python from Guido van Rossum’s 1991 side project in Amsterdam to its central role in today’s…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record?
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary The article reports growing public anger over new always-on AI smart glasses that listen and record conversations without an obvious…
‘Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light’
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from Singapore and Japan have published a blueprint for arranging “hopfions”—three‑dimensional, knotted topological textures of light—into ordered lattices that…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a $863 million funding round (Series B2) backed by a…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary This update pulls together recent advances in wave-energy research and deployments after a decade of development. A new…