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‘It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell’: Screens are assaulting our Stone Age brains with more information than we can...

Modern technology has fundamentally changed how our ancient minds work. We often joke that our attention spans have dropped significantly in recent …

What Trump’s New AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Means For the Tech Industry

For much of 2024, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s staunchest allies in Silicon Valley was David Sacks, an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-host of the popular podcast All-In. On his podcast and social media, Sacks argued that Trump’s pro-industry stances would unleash innovation and …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Companies Are Going Nuclear: Here Are 3 Energy Stocks You Should Know

The surge in artificial intelligence (AI) has led many companies to urgently reassess their energy strategies. These companies, along with several …

Meta jumps aboard the nuclear-powered data center bandwagon

Earlier this year, Meta tried to get its own nuclear powered data center the easy way, by building one next to an existing reactor. But after regulators threw cold water on the plan — the site was reportedly home to a rare bee species — the company is back with a new idea: find a developer who will …

The Biden administration is scrambling to send billions to chipmakers before Trump takes over

The Biden administration is running out of time to finalize agreements that would secure billions in funding for US chipmakers. In 2022, President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS Act into law, which included $39 billion in manufacturing incentives for chip production in the US along with $13.2 billion …

The Furious Contest to Unseat Nvidia as King of A.I. Chips (shared)

On the south side of Austin, Texas, engineers at the semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices designed an artificial intelligence chip called MI300 that was released a year ago and is expected to generate more than $5 billion in sales in its first year of release. Not far away in a north Austin …

Impact of China’s Export Restrictions on Gallium and Semiconductor Companies

Impact of China's Export Restrictions on Gallium and Semiconductor Companies Introduction China's decision to restrict exports of gallium and germanium has raised global concerns about the...

China hits back at U.S. with export ban on rare minerals

China announced Tuesday that it was banning the export of certain rare minerals to the U.S. that have military and technological applications. Why it …

The apocalypse that wasn’t: AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the …

Autonomous Vehicle Technology Comparison: Tesla and Waymo

Autonomous Vehicle Technology Comparison: Tesla and Waymo Tesla and Waymo represent two fundamentally different approaches to autonomous vehicle development. Tesla employs a vision-only system using...

How GE Vernova plans to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world

GE Vernova is aiming to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world over the next decade, staking out a leadership position in a budding …

Elon Musk’s team-up with Donald Trump is different to how media barons operated in the past. Here’s why

Elon Musk’s regular posts of strong support for president-elect Donald Trump on his social media platform X and his expected role within the new US …

ChatGPT’s artificial empathy is a language trick. Here’s how it works

Anthropomorphism occurs when we attribute human characteristics to non-human entities like animals or machines. Chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and …

‘It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell’: Screens are assaulting our Stone Age brains with more information than we can...

Modern technology has fundamentally changed how our ancient minds work. We often joke that our attention spans have dropped significantly in recent …

The Plastics Industry’s Wish List for a Second Trump Administration

Critics call it the plastics industry’s Project 2025. Tucked into a federal recycling bill is a litany of regulatory rollbacks and other …

Black Friday: why our brains love a bargain

Do you prefer Black Friday or Cyber Monday? The January sales or Amazon’s Prime Day? Or perhaps you like to hold out for a good old fashioned …

Are seed oils really as harmful as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims?

RFK Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to head the us Health and Human Services Department, wrote on X that Americans are being “unknowingly poisoned” by seed …

Revenge of the COVID Contrarians

They’re angry at the public-health establishment. Now they’re in control of it. On Christmas Eve of 2020, my father was admitted to the hospital with sudden weakness. My mother was not allowed to join him. She pleaded with the staff—my dad needed help making medical decisions, she said—but there …