Enlarge / MineDojo’s AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft. (credit: Nvidia) A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia’s generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Read more…
Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. The European Parliament website was knocked offline for several hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack Read more…
Enlarge / Workers walk outside Hon Hai Group’s Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, in 2010. (credit: Getty) Violent worker protests have erupted at the world’s largest iPhone factory in central China as authorities at the Read more…
Enlarge / A screenshot of an online game of Diplomacy, including a running chat dialog, provided by a Cicero researcher. (credit: Meta AI) On Tuesday, Meta AI announced the development of Cicero, which it clams Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If you’ve ever worried about the privacy of your sensitive data when seeking a computer or phone repair, a new study suggests you have good reason. It found that privacy violations Read more…
Enlarge / A poison dart frog rendered as a 3D model by Magic3D. (credit: Nvidia) On Friday, researchers from Nvidia announced Magic3D, an AI model that can generate 3D models from text descriptions. After entering Read more…
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of robots making science. (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, Meta AI unveiled a demo of Galactica, a large language model designed to “store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.” While Read more…
Enlarge / Nvidia and Microsoft are teaming up on an AI cloud supercomputer. (credit: Nvidia) On Wednesday, Nvidia announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build a “massive” cloud computer focused on AI. It will reportedly Read more…
Enlarge / An Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation smart speaker. (credit: Getty Images | Gado ) Amazon has started a round of layoffs that reportedly could cut about 10,000 jobs. Layoffs began yesterday in the Read more…
Enlarge / Horizontal boring equipment installing fiber in Los Altos Hills, California. (credit: Los Altos Hills Community Fiber) Our recent article about Silicon Valley residents who formed a co-op Internet service provider might have people Read more…