Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work played a vital role in the rise of AI, including ChatGPT — Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
Sources: the US office responsible for the $52B CHIPS Act will lose ~40% of its staff, including ~40 who are probationary, as Trump cuts the federal workforce — The US government office responsible for a marquee $52 billion chip subsidy program will lose about two-fifths of its staff …
Nothing unveils the $379 Phone 3A and $459 3A Pro, both with 6.77" displays, Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, and new AI tools to help organize files, shipping this month — Because of course there's AI. … The Nothing 3A phones were just announced with a new take on the company's “make tech more fun again” ethos.
Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says 77%+ of the funds stolen remain traceable, including 417,348 ETH, and 20% have “gone dark”; the hackers converted 83% of the ETH to BTC — Some 417,348 ETH, valued at approximately $1 billion remain traceable on the blockchain after being moved using privacy-focused THORChain.
TSMC's US investment is a win-win; dropping one advanced node protects its interests, while an advanced packaging plant and R&D center boost US chip prowess — TSMC's newly announced US investment plan, unveiled on March 4, 2025, differs from the original by adding $100 billion …
Google demos new Gemini features, including Screenshare to let users ask questions based on their phone's screen, and video search, coming later in March 2025 — Google is adding new features to its AI assistant, Gemini, that let users ask it questions using video and content on the screen in real time.
Singapore charges three men in a case suspected to involve Nvidia chip sales that breach US export controls, after a tip-off the chips were exported to Malaysia — Arrests made in city-state after raids on 22 locations — Singapore has charged three men in a case suspected …
President Trump names XRP, Solana, and Cardano as three assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, but does not mention Bitcoin or Ethereum — U.S. President Donald Trump named XRP, Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) as three assets to be included in a U.S. strategic crypto reserve on Sunday …
Some parents are teaching their children how to use AI chatbots so they are prepared to deploy the tools responsibly as personal assistants when they are older — As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond
How tech companies moving to or investing in Texas, attracted by lower taxes and fewer regulations on land use and labor, are transforming the state's economy — Apple is latest to remake state's economy, but some headwinds loom — Texas notched another technology win this week when Apple …
Sources: China is instructing its top AI leaders to avoid visiting the US over fears they could be detained as bargaining chips or divulge confidential info — Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through national-security lens, putting executives on tighter leash
DeepSeek says its V3 and R1 models' cost of inferencing relative to sales during a 24-hour-period on February 28 put “theoretical” profit margins at 545% — Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” …
Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, quantum computing is far from its silicon moment, with no consensus on the best way to build practical qubits — Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, the industry is still a long way from building practical machines
Sources: Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag, a venture backed by his $500M investment to change farming with AI, robotics, and software, has mostly been a bust so far — His Sensei Ag company hasn't succeeded in boosting output and nutrition in its greenhouses with AI, robotics and software
Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products — “There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” While Jim Barksdale's famous quote …
Abner Li / 9to5Google : YouTube launches a Premium paywall for song lyrics on YouTube Music, after testing it in recent months; users get...
