Tories plan to scrap low-carbon housebuilding, Greens back new nuclear reactors, and Labour put oil-drilling decisions on holdNew homes could be built without solar panels, heat pumps and high-grade insulation, leading to higher household bills if the Conservative party wins the next general electio
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a "set of nested black boxes" whose advice and actions we simply accept or […]
Much of the Trump administration's economic policy has been inspired by successful industrial policies successful in East Asia, including those of competitor, China. Will those policies work in the U.S.?
"The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization. And we will not forget, Norway."
The administration barred Microsoft and seven other firms from sponsoring green cards over claims they favor foreign workers. Here's what the visa data shows.
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data
When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in late September, he said the word “artificial” in “artificial intelligence” made the technology sound fake. Instead, he said, his government would start calling it “superintelligence,” or “SI.” Not long after those remarks, the president mad
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I'm back from parental leave! Part time, anyway. Thanks to everyone who sent wel
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. When we make county-level home price maps at ResiClub, we usually shade each county by its result. That works, but it has a blind spot: It treats every county the same, no matter how m
Earlier this year, I wrote in Fast Company that 2026 could be the year companies finally begin taking employee well-being seriously. I also challenged HR leaders to seize the moment and help drive the requisite cultural change within their organizations. Many people subsequently reached out to me to
Apple’s AirPods are arguably the most iconic headphones ever. The small, glossy, stylish buds are lauded for both their sound and design and are worn by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. But come next year, those hundreds of millions of AirPods owners might face a problem they never e
决定智能上限的从来不是数据的绝对规模,而是数据的质量与信息密度。 作者丨岑峰 在生成式 AI 浪潮下,机器人社区正经历从传统控制向端到端学习的范式大迁徙。如同许多领域一样,这里也弥漫着一股对数据规模的迷信,深信“数据越多越智能”是通往通用具身智能的唯一坦途。然而,在刚刚结束的 IEEE/RSJ 智能机器人与系统国际会议(IROS)上,昆士兰大学主力脚说 Jen Jen Chung 在主旨演讲中,结合自己十余载的研究案例,给出了一个发人深省的结论:并非所有数据都是平等的,盲目堆砌数据甚至会导致系统崩溃与策略失能。Chung 教授在演讲伊始便直击核心观点:海量数据并不等同于高信息量。坐拥海量数据却
On today’s Big Take podcast, finance reporters Max Abelson and Katherine Doherty discuss their exclusive reporting into who runs Jane Street and why it matters to global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)