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Amid an ongoing measles outbreak, the US is also facing a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough. As vaccine rates drop, other diseases could be next. Read more

WIRED’s advice columnist pushes back on the idea that ChatGPT and other generative AI software tools foster connections with other people. Read more

Gen AI has entered the enterprise in a big way since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT in 2022. According to Precedence Research, the global gen AI market was over $25 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach a staggering $803 billion by 2033. And AI at Wharton, part of the Wharton AI and Analytics Initiative… Read more

As far as many C-suite business and IT executives are concerned, their company data is in great shape, capable of fueling data-driven decision-making and delivering AI-powered solutions. But the closer an IT leader is to that data, the less confidence they have in its quality, according to a recent survey from IT consulting firm Softserve,… Read more

While it’s rare to look at the news without finding some headline related to AI and energy, a lot of us are stuck waving our hands when it comes to what it all means. Sure, you’ve probably read that AI will drive an increase in electricity demand. But how that fits into the context of… Read more

As a child of an electronic engineer, I spent a lot of time in our local Radio Shack as a kid. While my dad was locating capacitors and resistors, I was in the toy section. It was there, in 1984, that I discovered the best toy of my childhood: the Armatron robotic arm.  A drawing… Read more

President Trump and his appointees have repeatedly stressed the need to establish “American energy dominance.”  But the White House’s profusion of executive orders and aggressive tariffs, along with its determined effort to roll back clean-energy policies, are moving the industry in the wrong direction, creating market chaos and economic uncertainty that are making it harder… Read more

On Thanksgiving weekend of 2013, Jeff Bezos, then Amazon’s CEO, took to 60 Minutes to make a stunning announcement: Amazon was a few years away from deploying drones that would deliver packages to homes in less than 30 minutes.  It lent urgency to a problem that Parimal Kopardekar, director of the NASA Aeronautics Research Institute,… Read more

The Challenge of Data Selection in LLM Pretraining Developing large language models entails substantial computational investment, especially when experimenting with alternative pretraining corpora. Comparing datasets at full scale—on the order of billions of parameters and hundreds of billions of tokens—can consume hundreds of thousands of GPU hours per run. Consequently, practitioners resort to smaller‐scale experiments… Read more

이번 거래에서 인텔은 상당한 손실을 감수한 것으로 알려졌다. 인텔은 2015년 알테라를 167억 달러(한화 약 23조 7,000억 원)에 인수했지만, 현재는 기업 가치를 87.5억 달러(12조 4,200억 달러)로 평가했다. 지분 중 51%를 44억 달러(약 6조 2,400억 원)에 판매했다. 인텔은 올해 초 알테라를 독립 기업으로 분사했다. 베테랑 임원인 산드라 리베라가 경영을 맡았으며, 5월 초부터는 마벨 테크놀로지 출신의 라기브 후세인이… Read more