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At the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) 75th Anniversary Symposium, speakers celebrated the school’s value and contributions, while exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming many aspects of teaching, research, and society. The symposium was held Sept. 24-25 in the Linde Music Building’s Thomas Tull
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The Apple Watch Ultra 4 is a fantastic refinement of Apple's rugged smartwatch, with excellent battery life, responsive performance, and the new Readiness Score standing out as one of my favorite additions. It gives Apple's health features a more useful, actionable edge without another subscription, making
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Featured Podcasts Machine Gods: Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Speak Out + We Look Inside Pandora's Box The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future. Subscribe to Machine Gods. The Upstarts Podcast: The
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Startups are staying private longer leaving employees, who typically take a portion of their compensation as stock they can’t sell, with little hope of early liquidity. An increasing number of late-stage startups are recognizing this and offering tender offers to employees. These are transactions that allow employees (and, often,
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Featured Podcasts Machine Gods: Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Speak Out + We Look Inside Pandora's Box The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future. Subscribe to Machine Gods. The Upstarts Podcast: The
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Building a startup means making decisions before you have all the answers. When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor,
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AMD and Intel are teaming up to simplify AI development on x86 CPUs, consolidating their respective optimizations for PyTorch under the open-source oneDNN library. The move aims to give developers a common software path across both companies' processors, eliminating some of the fragmentation involved in optimizing AI workloads for
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AI agents want your busywork, shopping list, and increasingly, a role on either side of a cyberattack. Apple buyers are juggling hardware rumors and delivery estimates, while IT teams face another round of urgent patches. Apparently, the future requires less clicking and more checking what the software just did. Top
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* Records claim there are currently 35 applications to build data centers on US public land * Public land permitting is far more lenient for data center developers * Multiple projects are being rushed through According to US land records, there are currently 35 data center-related developments currently being considered for construction on
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Featured Podcasts Machine Gods: Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Speak Out + We Look Inside Pandora's Box The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future. Subscribe to Machine Gods. The Upstarts Podcast: The
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AMD's HIP is its "Heterogeneous Interface for Portability". It's a library that functions similarly to NVIDIA's CUDA in that it provides runtime APIs for compute applications across multiple platforms, including CUDA itself. So there's a ray-tracing library for HIP, known
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Last week, Starshield — the version of SpaceX’s Starlink used by the Ukrainian military — was throttled to block terminals traveling above certain speeds from accessing the service. The Ukrainian army’s interceptors, which counter Russian drones carrying bombs, suddenly stopped working at high speeds, making it easier for Russia to
