IBM Debuts World’s First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology

IBM unveiled a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 a...

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Gen Z Appears to Be Reversing No-Drinking Trend, Now Lurching Toward Alcoholism

After being stigmatized as the least-alcoholic generation, Gen-Z are now knocking them back as much as everyone else.

futurism.com

A foreigner visited an average Aussie town. Her reaction went viral

We can laugh all we want at how charmed a Korean visitor was by a seemingly charmless town, but the reality is that we all do the same thing overseas.

smh.com.au

AI brain implant restores a paralysed man’s movement

An AI brain implant called the double neural bypass restored movement and touch to a paralysed man, and the gains lasted years, per Nature Medicine.

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Bordeaux vineyard values plunge as wine sales fall below three million hectolitres

Land prices across Bordeaux's leading appellations have continued to slide as the region's prolonged wine crisis deepens, with annual wine sales dropping below the symbolic threshold of three million ...

thedrinksbusiness.com

Russian spies hunt for routers running legacy protocols with default credentials

FSB hackers quietly harvest router configurations.

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Japanese investors surge into Australian property as Chinese sell - realestate.com.au

Thousands of Chinese investors are ditching their Aussie investments as experts warn a property market crash in their homeland is flowing through to the lucky country.

realestate.com.au

AI fight exposes Silicon Valley’s mimetic flaw

René ​Girard believed man is ⁠a creature ​of imitation. The ​French social theorist’s ideas have many fans in ​Silicon Valley. ​The competition to dominate ‌artificial ⁠intelligence looks like a textb...

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Some Monsters are Real

What's coming has never been seen before in the history of modern global industrial civilization ... and it's just getting started.

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A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

anthropic.com

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Telstra broke its network with undocumented time fix

Led to cascading faults.

itnews.com.au

De Bortoli Wines invests in its vineyards

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carsguide.com.au

General Fusion’s quest to recreate the sun and stars with nuclear fusion

General Fusion CEO Greg Twinney spoke with Sherwood News from the Nasdaq during the stock’s first day of trading....

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Intel pumps €5B into EU AI fab capacity

Intel outlined a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital investment in its Republic of Ireland campus, aimed at expanding ‌European output.

mobileworldlive.com

Samsung bests Apple to become the top smartphone brand in the world

Apple surpassed Samsung last year. Now, Samsung has retaken the crown – at least for now.

mashable.com

Australia's wine grape crush plummets to lowest in more than 25 years

Australian wine grape production has fallen to its lowest amount in more than 25 years as the industry adjusts to a combination of depressed market conditions.

abc.net.au

Never Shuffled

A thing dealt once.

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Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the Heart of LLMs

Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.

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Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.

futurism.com

18 Hot Takes On Where AI is Headed Next

Real talk on the collapse of the frontier-only AI stack, the super app era, and why your app could become a dumb pipe for agents

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Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness

A Bundle of Algorithms is Like a Rock in Certain Respects

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I started using Projects in Google Drive; it instantly boosted my productivity

Google Drive finally feels smarter

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South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

arstechnica.com

Benjamin Fong | The Anti-Amazon

Costco's model and the future of retail

phenomenalworld.org

Hollywood and Big Tech Are Preparing for War

Meta wants to steal TV viewers, Amazon and Apple are meddling with content, and traditional media companies are pursuing megadeals to try and survive.

hollywoodreporter.com