The research world is facing an avalanche of papers that’s overwhelming the peer review system. Generative AI is making the problem worse by enabling fraudulent paper mills to scale up. Experts argue we need fundamental changes to academic publishing incentives.
Google just announced Private AI Compute, a platform that brings cloud-level AI processing with on-device privacy protections. It uses hardware-secured environments where even Google can’t access user data. The technology is already enhancing features on Pixel 10 phones.
AMD just laid out an incredibly ambitious growth roadmap, predicting its data center chip business will reach $100 billion in annual revenue. The company sees the total market hitting $1 trillion by 2030, with AI driving most of that expansion.
Nvidia’s decline weighed on the S&P 500 despite broader market gains, with SoftBank selling its entire stake. AI stocks showed mixed results as investors grappled with valuation concerns and supply chain issues.
Facing a two-year timeline for single mineral assessments, USGS teams with DARPA and ARPA-E on AI projects that can digitize maps in 25 minutes and unify data on 679,000 global mining sites. The goal is to complete 50 assessments in the next few years using machine learning to predict new deposits.
AI chip startup Tsavorite has secured over $100 million in pre-orders for its Omni Processing Unit. The company claims its unified architecture delivers breakthrough performance for AI inference, training, and reinforcement learning.
According to leading neuroscientists, there’s no objective test for consciousness and we may never be able to prove AI has it. The fundamental problem? Consciousness is subjective by definition, and we can’t peer inside AI’s “mind” like we can’t peer into human heads.
Czech startup Flowpay has launched in the Netherlands backed by a €30 million credit facility from Fasanara Capital. The FinTech aims to close Europe’s massive SME financing gap through AI-driven embedded lending solutions. This marks their first Western European expansion after establishing presenc
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a radical plan to run AI workloads on solar-powered satellites in space. The project aims to overcome Earth’s energy constraints by tapping into near-continuous solar power in orbit. Prototype satellites are planned for launch by early 2027.
Wikipedia is telling AI companies to stop scraping its content and use its paid Enterprise API instead. The nonprofit saw an 8% drop in human traffic while AI bots overwhelmed its servers. Now they want attribution and financial support from AI developers.
