eLife

Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals

Self-related information automatically modulates early attentional selection into awareness through mechanisms distinct from physical salience, revealing an obligatory, individualized ...
CNBC

Amazon to spend $12 billion in Louisiana on AI data centers

Amazon plans to invest $12 billion in artificial intelligence data centers in Louisiana. The company's AI spending is expected to balloon to $200 billion this year, more than any of the other ...
Reuters

Adani bets $100 billion on data centres to power India’s AI ambitions

Adani to invest $100 bln to build AI-ready data centres by 2035 Investment expected to create $250 bln India AI infrastructure Adani to invest $55 bln to expand renewable energy portfolio Feb 17 ...
The Hechinger Report

This state tried to overhaul math instruction. It didn’t go as planned

Bailey Heugly, right, records the length a ruler dropped to recreate an experiment on reaction time (how long it takes to respond to a stimulus) during a data science class at Lehi High School in ...
CNN

Elon Musk’s bold new plan to put AI in orbit isn’t as crazy as it sounds

Elon Musk believes the best way to solve the difficulties of building AI data centers on earth is to move them into outer space. His merger this week of his rocket company SpaceX with his artificial ...
TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space

SpaceX has acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, creating the world’s most valuable private company, the spaceflight company announced Monday. Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX, ...
GeekWire

SpaceX seeks go-ahead from the FCC to put up to a million data center satellites in orbit

This time-lapse image of Venus and the Pleiades shows the tracks of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The image received an award in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest. (Torsten Hansen / IAU OAE / ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Mapping surprise in the human mind, with help from AI

We build AI systems to mimic the human brain: writing emails, answering questions and predicting what comes next. But new research aims to turn that relationship around—using large language models ...
The New York Times

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...
The Hechinger Report

OPINION: We cannot wait until high school or college to integrate computer science lessons

Less than 40 percent of public middle schools say that they are offering computer science coursework. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up ...
Pew Research Center

Do Americans Think the Country Is Losing or Gaining Ground in Science?

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...