Sekhon, who served as chief scientist and head of AI, will join Bridgewater’s board of directors after leaving his current roles there, according to a post by Hassabis on LinkedIn.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says The Pentagon plans…
The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for…
Jun Young-hyun, a Samsung Electronics vice chairman and co-CEO who oversees the company’s chip business, made the comments at Samsung’s annual meeting of shareholders in Suwon, south of Seoul.
The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions…
The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing that helps determine the trajectory of researchers’ studies. This includes building a research team, which demands innovative ideas and direction,…
A white paper published by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisory (PSO) on Sunday threw its weight behind the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade’s (DPIIT) recommendation that India adopt a hybrid model of intellectual property and…
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It’s been just over two weeks since OpenAI reached a controversial agreement to allow the Pentagon to…
The US Army has signed an agreement with defence tech startup Anduril Industries that could be worth up to $20 billion. The enterprise contract aims to streamline procurement and speed up access to software, hardware and infrastructure. Separately, Anduril is…
The latest investment would help accelerate Agnikul’s operational readiness, supporting the scaling of its aerospace manufacturing capabilities, advancing its stage recovery program, and strengthening the development of its integrated space campus on the 300 acres allocated by the Tamil Nadu…