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Founder of Geometric Intelligence, Gary Marcus, is interviewed by Executive Editor of operations for MIT Technology Review, Amy Nordrum, at the Web Summit Vancouver 2025 tech conference in Vancouver Canada, on May 27, 2025.
Founder of Geometric Intelligence, Gary Marcus, is interviewed by Executive Editor of operations for MIT Technology Review, Amy Nordrum, at the Web Summit Vancouver 2025 tech conference in Vancouver Canada, on May 27, 2025.
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Generative AI too flawed to be transformative: Expert

Marcus became a prominent figure of the AI revolution in 2023, when he sat beside OpenAI chief Sam Altman at a Senate hearing in Washington as both men urged politicians to take the technology seriously and consider regulation.

1 day ago
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New York Times signs AI licensing deal with Amazon

Several media groups have already struck similar deals with major tech companies, but The New York Times had previously refused to allow its content to be used in the artificial intelligence race.

1 day ago
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Elon Musk aiming to send Starship to Mars by end of 2026

Musk presented a detailed Starship development timeline in a video posted online by his Los Angeles area-based rocket company, SpaceX, a day after departing the administration of US President Donald Trump as head of a tumultuous campaign to slash government bureaucracy.

1 day ago

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AI to spur more music creativity, not a threat: Spotify CEO

Artists using machine-learning tools to produce music have given rise to concerns about whether AI-generated music -- even entirely fake artists -- could one day replace human artists. 

2 days ago
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Elon Musk's Starship blows up over Indian Ocean in latest bumpy test

The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT) from the company's Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village that earlier this month voted to become a city -- also named Starbase.

3 days ago
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Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet

But several recent studies looking into the same data have found that there is not enough evidence to support such lofty claims, with one scientist accusing the astronomers of "jumping the gun".

5 days ago
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Microsoft strikes deal with Musk to host Grok AI

Microsoft on Monday said its cloud servers will now host Grok from Elon Musk's xAI, days after the chatbot went off the rails with talk of "white genocide" in South Africa.

1 week ago
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JIHS Hackathon 2025 concludes with breakthrough innovations in Jakarta’s SCBD

Indonesian students showcased their skills and innovative thinking in a recent hackathon, offering solutions to global challenges.

1 week ago
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Sinarmas World Academy’s OceanVoyager team wins IB’s Global Youth Action Fund

Three students from Sinarmas World Academy (SWA) have achieved international recognition by winning the prestigious Global Youth Action Fund (GYAF) grant from the International Baccalaureate (IB), securing US$3,000 to develop their innovative project, OceanVoyager. This initiative, designed to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), empowers young leaders to create impactful solutions addressing global challenges.

2 weeks ago
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Universe dying quicker than thought, new research says

But there's no great need to panic. We still have 10 to the power of 78 years before it happens -- that's a one with 78 zeroes.

2 weeks ago
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Jungle music: Chimp drumming reveals building blocks of human rhythm

The findings lend fresh weight to the theory that the raw ingredients of human music were present before our evolutionary split from chimpanzees six million years ago.

2 weeks ago
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Ransomware group Lockbit appears to have been hacked, analysts say

On Wednesday one of Lockbit's darkweb sites was replaced with a message saying, "Don't do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague" and a link to an apparent cache of leaked data.

3 weeks ago
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Meta content moderator cuts over 2,000 jobs in Spain

The move comes as Mark Zuckerberg's company has cut its third-party fact-checking in the United States and overhauled its content moderation policies.

3 weeks ago
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Musk's dreams for Starbase city in Texas hang on vote

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality.

4 weeks ago
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Rediscovering the beauty of travel through the Trip.com light and music show

Vibrant colors and luminous light reflections coming together, the Trip.com light and music show awakes the magical desire of wanderlust with its picturesque graphics projected into a cascading waterfall.

4 weeks ago
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Oldest-known ant preserved in 113 million-year-old Brazilian fossil

This ant is roughly 13 million years older than the previous oldest-known ants, specimens found in France and Myanmar that were preserved in amber, which is fossilized tree sap.

1 month ago
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Where are all the aliens?: Fermi's Paradox explained

But given the age and vastness of the universe, a different question has long puzzled some scientists: why haven't we already come in contact with aliens?

1 month ago
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China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon

Humanoid robots have made appearances at marathons in China over the past year, but this is the first time they have raced alongside humans.

1 month ago
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Webb detected strongest 'hints' yet of life on distant planet

There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, could be an ocean world capable of hosting microbial life.

1 month ago
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SWA student Ayden admitted to Harvard, Stanford, and other Top Global Universities

Ayden Haoken, a senior in the Class of 2025 from Sinarmas World Academy (SWA) in Tangerang, Banten, has earned admission to some of the world’s most prestigious universities in recognition not only of his academic excellence, but also his role as a tech-driven changemaker and young entrepreneur committed to global impact.

1 month ago
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US takes aim at Zuckerberg's social media kingdom

By moving forward, the trial in a Washington federal court dashes any hopes from Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg that the return of Donald Trump to the White House would see the government let up on the enforcement of antitrust law against Big Tech.

1 month ago
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Meta to introduce teen accounts for Facebook

The accounts were brought in for 13- to 15-year-old users of the company's popular photo-sharing app last September as part of moves to shield vulnerable underage internet users from online harms.

1 month ago
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Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit Moon

The asteroid, thought to be capable of levelling a city, set a new record in February for having the highest chance -- 3.1 percent -- of hitting our home planet than scientists have ever measured. 

1 month ago
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Italian newspaper prints fully-AI edition, but not to 'kill' journalism

Il Foglio, a daily broadsheet with an irreverent touch and a circulation of about 29,000, says it is the first newspaper in the world to print entire editions created through artificial intelligence, a nascent technology that is rapidly changing how newsrooms operate.

2 months ago
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Crew launch to ISS paves way for 'stranded' astronauts' return

The two former US Navy pilots have been stuck aboard the orbital lab since June after the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they were testing on its maiden crewed voyage suffered propulsion issues and was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth.

2 months ago
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LA Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to opinion pieces

The move comes as the Times struggles with plunging readership and heavy financial losses that have led to heavy job cuts.

2 months ago
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How to see rare 'planetary parade' in the sky tonight

Here is what you need to know about how best to get a glimpse of this celestial parade.

3 months ago
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Chance huge asteroid will hit Earth down to 0.001 percent

A week ago, the asteroid set a new record for having the highest probability of hitting Earth -- 3.1 percent according to NASA and 2.8 percent according to the ESA. The planetary defence community has been scanning the skies.

3 months ago
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Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032

The drop in odds had been widely anticipated by the global astronomical community, which now broadly expects the probability the asteroid will hit Earth on December 22, 2032 to fall down to zero.

3 months ago
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Don't panic: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid

The odds that the recently discovered asteroid will hit Earth on December 22, 2032 have now risen to 3.1 percent, NASA said on Tuesday, the highest probability for an impact by such a large space rock in modern forecasting.

3 months ago