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When a supercomputer made history by defeating the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov

The biggest news stories this morning: TikTok might be trying to circumvent Apple’s in-app purchase rules, Batman: Arkham Shadow is the first big exclusive VR game for the Quest 3, Rabbit denies claims its R1 virtual assistant is a glorified Android app.

It turns out the lay of today’s AI landscape can be traced back to fear, jealousy and intense capitalist ambition. Emails revealed in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google show Microsoft executives expressing alarm and envy over Google’s AI lead.

Over the last two years, generative AI has smashed our ideas of what intelligence means, what AI can and cannot do, and of our place in the cosmos. A two-thousand year old journey from Aristotle to today, has culminated in a moment where human exceptionalism has finally been challenged.

Paul Stevens, CEO of Just Property, shares his thoughts on some of the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead during 2023...

The idea of artificial general intelligence as we know it today starts with a dot-com blowout on Broadway.  Twenty years ago—before Shane Legg clicked with neuroscience postgrad Demis Hassabis over a shared fascination with intelligence; before the pair hooked up with Hassabis’s childhood friend Mustafa Suleyman, a progressive activist, to spin that fascination into a…

The Big Tech AI war are heating up again

Julia Joung created an “atlas” to help scientists see how specific proteins shape cells into muscle, neurons, and more.

The AI system Swift that defeated the human pilots also has real-world applications, including environmental monitoring and disaster response.

An AI drone has beaten three champion drone racers, setting a “new milestone” as the first autonomous system capable of winning against human champions at a physical sport, researchers said.An AI system called Swift won multiple races against the...