Nature

Silicon Valley’s vision for global AI is flawed: each country needs its own blueprint

Pelonomi Moiloa is the co-founder and chief executive of Lelapa AI, headquartered in Delaware, USA, and based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In April, South Africa withdrew its draft national ...
Tech Times

AI Inference and World Model Startups Pull $1.8B in Two Days as Foundation Models Commoditize

AI inference infrastructure investment pulled $1.8 billion in 48 hours as Baseten’s $1.5B round at a $13B valuation and ...
Psychology TodayOpinion

Simulation Hypothesis: Lessons From the Fruit Fly Brain Map

If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...

50-megapixel Earth models capture storms in unprecedented detail—but four consistent blind spots remain

Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras—they had only about 10,000 pixels to cover the entire planet. At that low resolution, big storm systems looked like blurry blobs. You ...
Ars Technica

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots ...
TechCrunch

Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

AI startup Decart on Wednesday unveiled Oasis 3, its latest interactive world model that can generate photorealistic driving environments in real time, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The model is ...

Dataland defies expectations. But will L.A. embrace the world’s first AI arts museum?

Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, is set to open in downtown L.A. on June 20. Arriving as debate about AI reaches new heights, Dataland seeks to place an experience of the natural world ...