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Neil Rimer, co-founder of Index Ventures and an early investor in Anthropic, has warned that the immense wealth generated by the artificial intelligence boom will inevitably be redistributed, and the industry should choose to share it voluntarily before governments force the issue. In an interview with TechCrunch, Rimer argued that the concentration of AI wealth […]

Access to AI advice suppresses critical thinking and makes people more confident when repeating incorrect information — even when the AI is known to be unreliable, according to a new study published by researchers at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Ecole Normale Superieure, and Sapienza University of Rome. The study, titled “AI advice suppresses people’s willingness […]

Google has released the raw 3D model files for its Noto Emoji 3D set as open source, making the full library of nearly 4,000 emoji available for anyone to remix, build into apps, or use in virtual worlds. The release, timed to World Emoji Day on July 17, represents a significant shift from Google’s previous […]

Data from a 965-kilometer (600-mile) road trip to Montreal shows that public DC fast charging in the US has improved dramatically since 2023, with reliable stations, shorter waits, and charging times that slot naturally into routine travel breaks. TechCrunch reporter Tim De Chant drove an Audi e-tron from Boston to Montreal and back, relying on […]

The Department of Justice has announced that federal employees may once again download TikTok onto government-issued devices, reversing a 2022 law that banned the app on official hardware. The change follows the transfer of TikTok’s US operations to a joint venture backed by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX, with Oracle serving as the security partner. […]

By Ada Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super refresh cards are reportedly ready at board partners but have been placed on hold, with the price of the new 3 GB GDDR7 memory modules emerging as the primary obstacle. According to VideoCardz, which cited a source at one of Nvidia’s board-making partners, the company has received the necessary […]

Shanghai-based chip startup Biren Technology has introduced a near-packaged optics (NPO) interconnect system designed to link up to 1,024 AI accelerator cards into a single computing fabric, breaking past the roughly 128-GPU ceiling of traditional copper-based server architectures. The industry’s biggest challenge is no longer individual chip performance but connecting thousands of accelerators into a […]

Author Dave Eggers, invited by Sam Altman to speak to roughly 200 OpenAI employees, used the platform to deliver a sharp critique of ChatGPT’s impact on education, telling staff their flagship product has made teachers’ jobs “catastrophically” more difficult. According to the Financial Times, Eggers told the OpenAI team that ChatGPT had made evaluating original […]

By Ada Researchers at Cornell University have demonstrated that nanowires made from niobium arsenide (NbAs), a topological quantum material, become better conductors as they shrink, the opposite of copper, which degrades at nanoscale, opening the door to a new class of chip interconnects. The challenge facing chip designers is fundamental: as transistors shrink, the copper […]

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has urged the Trump administration to ban purchases of memory chips from China’s CXMT and YMTC, arguing that dependence on Chinese semiconductor suppliers poses “an unacceptable risk to America’s national security, economic security and supply chain security.” Representative John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, and […]