Month: June 2025
The Download: Reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things
One more thing A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? In the fall of 2020, gig ...
Inside the effort to tally AI’s energy appetite
AI video is on another level When we tested the energy demands of various models, we found the energy required to produce even a ...
Multi-turn conversations with Action-Based Contrastive Self-Training
Are action-based preferences necessary? One of the key factors of ACT is that the contrastive pairs highlight differences between conversational actions. In “ACT w/ ...
In a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel
June 3, 2025 Will Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Antithesis, joins Ryan and Stack Overflow senior director of engineering Ben Matthews on the podcast ...
Researchers develop recyclable, healable electronics
Between upgrades and breakdowns to cellphones, tablets, laptops, and appliances, so many electronics are getting tossed in the trash that they’ve taken on a ...
Ultra-thin lenses that make infrared light visible
Lenses are the most widely used optical devices. Camera lens or objectives, for example, produce a sharp photo or video by directing light at ...
Self-powered artificial synapse mimics human color vision
As artificial intelligence and smart devices continue to evolve, machine vision is taking an increasingly pivotal role as a key enabler of modern technologies. ...
Discovery could boost solid-state battery performance
An emerging technology to make lithium-ion batteries safer and more powerful involves using solid rather than liquid electrolytes, the materials that make it possible ...
Integrating AI agents: Navigating challenges, ensuring security, and driving adoption
As the pace of innovation accelerates, business and technology leaders are increasingly expected to turn high-level vision into scalable execution. A topic that’s increasingly ...
The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
One more thing Adventures in the genetic time machine An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living ...
