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Google is Adding More AI Overviews and a New 'AI Mode' To Search(2025-03-05 20:00:20)

Google announced Wednesday it is expanding its AI Overviews to more query types and users worldwide, including those not logged into Google accounts, while introducing a new "AI Mode" chatbot feature. AI Mode, which resembles competitors like Perplexity or ChatGPT Search, will initially be limited t...
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Half of World's CO2 Emissions Come From 36 Fossil Fuel Firms, Study Shows(2025-03-05 15:00:04)

Half of the world's climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed. From a report: The researchers said the 2023 data strengthened the case for holding fossil fuel companies to account for their contribution to global heating. Previou...
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Turing Award Winners Sound Alarm on Hasty AI Deployment(2025-03-05 10:00:07)

Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI systems [alternative source] after winning computing's prestigious $1 million Turing Award Wednesday. "Releasing software to millions of people without safeguards is not good engineering p...
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China May Be Ready to Use Nuclear Fusion for Power by 2050(2025-03-05 05:00:04)

China plans to commercialize nuclear fusion for emissions-free power generation by 2050, with its first operational project expected around 2050 after a demonstration phase starting in 2045. Bloomberg reports: China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) last year formed an industry alliance and set up a new...
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Users Report Emotional Bonds With Startlingly Realistic AI Voice Demo(2025-03-05 00:00:09)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational ...
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