Month: February 2025

An arms race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy, triggered by recent panic over Chinese chatbot DeepSeek, risks amplifying the existential dangers of superintelligence, according to one of the “godfathers” of AI. Canadian machine learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio, author of the first International AI Safety Report to be presented at an international AI summit in Paris
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A compact neutrino detector has successfully identified antineutrinos at a nuclear power plant, marking a significant advancement in particle physics. Unlike conventional detectors that require massive infrastructure, this device weighs less than three kilograms. Despite its size, it effectively detected antineutrinos emitted from a nuclear reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland. The experiment, which lasted 119 days,
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China has, as expected, hit back at Donald Trump’s imposition of a 10% tariff on its exports to the United States. Beijing has slapped levies of between 10-15% on a range of energy products that imports from the US. But what has surprised observers – particularly when Mr Trump kicked off the trade war over
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Photo: First Solar The US solar manufacturing industry just hit a historic milestone: Domestic solar module production capacity has surpassed 50 gigawatts (GW). If all these factories ran at full capacity, they could produce enough modules to meet the country’s entire solar demand. This achievement signals a shift in the US solar industry, which has
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A panel of international medical experts has given alternative causes of death in several cases against child serial killer Lucy Letby. It comes as her defence lawyers announced they have asked for her case to be investigated as a miscarriage of justice. Letby, 35, the UK’s most prolific child killer of modern times, is serving
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In this article 7974.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nintendo has kept players interested in its ageing Switch console series through key games with characters such as Super Mario and Zelda. Charly Triballeau | AFP | Getty Images Nintendo on Tuesday reported weaker-than-expected top and bottom results for its fiscal third quarter, slashing its
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