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Tiny Lasers Could Finally Bring Us Really Smart AR Glasses

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When Google Glass debuted almost a decade ago, augmented reality (AR) wearables seemed poised to take off. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. Users could simultaneously interact with the physical and digital worlds.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. Hanna: Also, what would it mean to use AI to hold power to account? Spatial apartheid is legally over. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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The AI systems most in question are today’s generative AI models that have learned how to read, write, draw, animate, and speak, and which can be used to power tools like ChatGPT. For the first time, these instruments establish a legal threshold beyond which models will be deemed “dual use” or “systemic risk” technologies.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. This summer (2015), Google will have several of its newest self-driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, its headquarters city.

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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

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Making breakthroughs in artificial intelligence these days requires huge amounts of computing power. In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that by the end of this year, the company will have installed 350,000 Nvidia GPUs —the specialized computer chips used to train AI models—to power its AI research.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so. With US companies barred from doing business with Huawei, Google could no longer license its Android operating system—the operating system that runs most of the world's phones—to Huawei. So the U.S.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. So, he was a natural choice when Edison General Electric’s legal department was looking for someone to speak for the company in a spate of patent interference cases.

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