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Intel has announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) investment to expand its Leixlip campus in County Kildare, Ireland, scaling production of Xeon 6 and next-generation Xeon server processors built on the Intel 3 process node. The move, announced on July 13, comes roughly a year after the company canceled planned fab projects in Magdeburg, Germany […]

Nvidia has effectively relaunched its five-year-old GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card as a stopgap measure amid the ongoing GPU shortage driven by AI demand. Palit, an Nvidia board partner, has officially announced the RTX 3060 Infinity 2 OC, a “new” version of the 2021 GPU with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. The move is a […]

In an unusual crossover between AI benchmarking and psychometrics, researchers have published the first validation study of the ARC-AGI benchmark in human participants, finding that performance on the AI-oriented test correlates substantially with fluid intelligence. The study tested 100 human participants on a compilation of ARC-AGI items alongside established measures of figural reasoning and creativity. […]

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science have uncovered how crystal symmetry acts as a fundamental switch controlling whether hydrogen atoms move through vanadium via classical hopping or quantum tunneling. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, could guide the design of better hydrogen storage materials for clean energy applications. Hydrogen is a […]

A new benchmark called Imaging-101 is revealing the gap between LLMs’ performance on general coding tasks and their ability to handle the specialized demands of scientific computational imaging. The benchmark, published on arXiv by a team led by Siyi Chen, evaluates seven frontier LLM coding agents across 57 expert-verified tasks drawn from six scientific domains. […]

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a material that can control, direct, and remember the flow of heat, without continuous power. The breakthrough breaks a fundamental physical principle called thermal reciprocity, which has long made it impossible to independently control how heat enters and leaves a material. In most materials, absorption and emission are […]

Microsoft has reversed its long-standing guidance on Windows update timing. The company now recommends that users and IT administrators install quality updates within three days of release, a dramatic shift from the previous practice where deferring updates for weeks or even months was considered acceptable. The reason is AI-powered cyberattacks. Hackers are now using AI […]

Independent security researcher Dave Kuszmar has published a detailed account in IEEE Spectrum of seven distinct jailbreak techniques that work against virtually every major large language model on the market, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Llama, Mistral’s Le Chat, Alibaba’s Qwen, and Microsoft Copilot. The most alarming finding is not the number of exploits […]

DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis has called for the United States to establish an industry-funded self-regulatory organization for AI, modeled on FINRA, the financial industry’s watchdog. In a detailed post and accompanying interview, Hassabis argued that the window before artificial general intelligence arrives is narrowing and that voluntary, uncoordinated safety efforts are insufficient. The […]

X has updated its recommendation algorithm to increase the visibility of posts from mutual followers — users who follow each other — in an effort to make reply threads feel more communal and less like a battleground of unfamiliar voices. The change was announced by Nikita Bier, X’s head of product. “We noticed this data […]