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Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test
The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet.
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์ต๊ทผ 7์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค 11,412๊ฑด์ ๋ถ์ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ด์ค ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง์๋ 50.0(๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค. ๊ธ์ 1๊ฑด(0.0%)ยท์ค๋ฆฝ 11,410๊ฑด(100.0%)ยท๋ถ์ 1๊ฑด(0.0%)์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค๋ฆฝ ๋น์ค์ด ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑํฅ ์ง์๋ ์ข ํฉ 18.6(์ค๋ ๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค.
The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet.
Companies are shifting from running everything on the most powerful AI model to matching each task to the right one, a practice called model routing.
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk called out Democrats for their criticisms against her by reposting an artificially generated parody video of Democratic office culture, where they find ways to โharass and bullyโ her. โAnd this, our most important floor, is where we come up with new ways to bash, harass, and bully Erika Kirk,โ [โฆ]
Anthropic called for a coordinated slowdown in AI development, warning that AI capabilities could advance faster than society can adapt.
Three Amazon engineers publicly called for oversight of large-scale data center construction as their employer cuts jobs to fund AI infrastructure
Washington and Silicon Valley are bracing for the fallout from AIโs potential displacement of workers, floating everything from transition assistance to universal basic income as Americans express growing discontent with the technology. AI leaders have long warned the technology could disrupt the labor market, with predictions varying from a so-called jobs apocalypse to more mild...
Amazon engineers called out their employer for conducting mass layoffs while it commits to spending $200 billion this year on AI infrastructure.
Activists say itโs the first time Big Tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projects.
Meta is rolling out a new feature to limit harmful content shown to teenagers as part of a broader push to better protect kids online in the wake of two landmark verdicts against the company. The setting, called Limited Content, will limit specific types of content, such as posts about weightlifting, nutrition and anxiety coping...
The storied filmmaker has signed on as an adviser and partner to Black Forest Labs, which has an image-generation tool called Flux
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the semiconductor company โso essentialโ to the development of artificial intelligence.
There has been a sharp rise in so-called "nudification" technology. These AI-powered tools can generate realistic fake images and videos that depict people as undressed, often without their knowledge or consent. William Brangham reports on the growing concern over the technology and the efforts underway to rein it in.
Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can't remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to reshuffle its entire business around AI, it's moving Build [โฆ]
The next-generation platform promises 10 times the agentic AI throughput of its Grace Blackwell predecessor at a tenth of the cost per token
โNot in my backyardโ is the rallying cry of citizens everywhere resisting projects proposed for their locality. Whether itโs affordable housing, a waste treatment plant, or a new data center, they may recognize the benefit of the activity. They just donโt want it near them. And the roots of that resistance differ from place to place. When it comes to the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewables, companies and policymakers need to know where, exactly, people are coming from. The Italian island of Sardinia is a textbook example. As IEEE Spectrumโs power and energy editor Emily Waltz discovered when she traveled there last October, Sardinian opposition to wind and solar projects runs deep. It spurred a quarter of the voting population to queue up in public squares in 2024 to sign a petition banning all construction of renewable energy. Waltz was surprised. She went there to see a promising new grid-scale energy storage system that uses domes inflated with carbon dioxide. While reporting on that project, she interviewed residents, engineers, activists, and professors about their attitudes toward climate change and the Italian governmentโs grand plans for renewable energy on the island. And Waltz soon learned of Sardiniansโ profound antipathy toward renewable energy and its deep ties to a history of invasion, occupation, and exploitation stretching back 2,700 years. It started with the Phoenicians and then extended through the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Iberians. Sardinia was absorbed into a newly unified Italy in 1861, and it became an autonomous region of Italy in 1948. The islandโs population is justifiably suspicious of outsiders, including the Italian government. โWhen youโre in Sardinia, the weight of historyโyou can feel it like in the air,โ Waltz told me. โAnd it gets passed down from one generation to the next.โ Now, Italy needs Sardinia to produce even more power to meet the countryโs climate goalsโsomething that Sardinians see as Romeโs problem, not theirs. โSardinia already exports about 30 percent of its electricity. Itโs not like they need more,โ Waltz says. โSo itโs hard to make the case to build, build, build.โ The result of Waltzโs old-fashioned shoe leather reporting is this monthโs cover story. She notes that the Sardinians she talked to arenโt climate-change deniers, and they donโt object to renewables per se. They just donโt like the way corporations and Italian policymakers are trying to plug into Sardinia like itโs one giant battery rather than the home of an ancient and proud people. โI think Sardinians would be more receptive to renewable projects if it was more of a ground-up, grassroots approach,โ Waltz says. Indeed, this homegrown approach is already working in some places in Sardinia. She knows of more than 50 projects, called energy communities, where the residents are deploying renewables themselves. The idea also holds promise for other places struggling to get locals to buy into the renewable-energy transition. The Sardinian experience is both a cautionary tale and a blueprint. Ignore the weight of history that communities carry and your project risks failure. Meet the people where they are and you might just get somewhere. The same lesson applies whether youโre in Sulawesi or sub-Saharan Africa. You just have to show up to learn it.
Sellers of products with names like Boner Bears and DTF have voluntarily recalled their products after testing positive for the active ingredients in Viagra and Cialis.
Meta, the company that used to be called Facebook, has allowed at least one department to be run by Chinese migrants, according to a former employee who is now blowing the whistle on the company's toxic, anti-professionalism culture. The post U.S. Tech Professional Exposes Chinese Enclaves, Discrimination at Facebook/Meta appeared first on Breitbart.
The leader of the Catholic Church called artificial intelligence a threat to humanity in his first encyclical
The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words "every hit delivers Bitcoin" emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded [โฆ]
A group of 20 Snap alumni has come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to back the next generation of social media.