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xAI’s Grok 3 is better than expected. How to try it for free (before you subscribe)
xAI’s new model rises to the top of Chatbot Arena leaderboards and benchmark results.
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Roundtables: Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet
Recorded on February 18, 2025 Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet Speakers: Mat Honan, editor in chief, and Niall Firth, executive editor. Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, is ushering a new era of the internet. Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways…
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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Three months later, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the glorious pain in the ass its makers intended
When S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl was released in November, it was clearly not yet the game its developers, GSC Game World, wanted it to be. Sure, this imagining of the Zone was fabulously moody, a desolate and bleak expanse of bog, scrubland, abandoned warehouses, and pallid vistas. For all the ways it was transportive…
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Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab to Make AI More Accessible
After leaving OpenAI last year, Mira Murati is finally ready to share what she’s working on.
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Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab
After her sudden departure from OpenAI last fall, ex-CTO Mira Murati vanished from public view to start something new. Now, she is ready to share some details about what sheâs working on. Her new AI startup is called Thinking Machines Lab, and while the specifics of what it plans to release are still under wraps,…
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How to maximize hard-dollar ROI on security technology investments
Fresh research from PWC has found that CIOs are far less likely to say that the IT function is prepared for reinvention, compared to 2023. The drop is considerable: 20 percentage points in just 12 months indicates a significant loss of confidence that IT is ready to modernize. But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In…
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Electricity demand surges for the world’s two biggest polluters
China and the US, the world’s two top greenhouse gas polluters, could burn through a lot more electricity over the next couple of years, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The steepest rise in global electricity demand in a while is expected over the next few years, with much of that coming from new data…
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Acer is the first to raise laptop prices because of Trump
Acer CEO and chairman Jason Chen says your laptop will cost an extra 10 percent in the United States next month — and that his rivals might attempt price gouging if they think you’ll pay even more. “We think 10pc probably will be the default price increase because of the import tax. It’s very straightforward,”…
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Out-analyzing analysts: OpenAI’s Deep Research pairs reasoning LLMs with agentic RAG to automate work — and replace jobs
OpenAI’s Deep Research pairs advanced reasoning LLMs with agentic RAG, delivering automated reports that rival human analysts — at a fraction of the cost. This breakthrough AI tool could redefine knowledge work across industries, from finance to healthcare, while raising critical questions about job displacement. Read on to explore how OpenAI is reshaping enterprise AI…