Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says of AI that ‘open is not a thing, it’s proprietary and open’, sparking a conversation about bot orchestras

The world of AI boffins really is baffling, sometimes. I’m finally used to the idea that I can chat to a non-sentient, very knowledgeable and occasionally hallucinatory machine, and already we’re talking about AI models interacting with AI models. It’s only in such a world that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang could think to utter the…

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Google says it’s preparing for the quantum apocalypse, when traditional encryption methods are broken by quantum computers, by 2029—which is much sooner than originally expected

If you’ve never heard of Q-Day, the moment when quantum computers become capable of breaking traditional encryption methods and exposing vast amounts of data, often referred to as the ‘quantum apocalypse‘, then Google’s latest announcement might come as something of a shock. The company is giving itself a 2029 timeline to “secure the quantum era”…

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Videogames are more of a rich guy’s hobby than ever, says analyst, and that’s ‘leaving a whole portion of the market to Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox’

The term “K-shaped economy” is one that economists and finance writers came up with to avoid having to say “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”* It goes like this: as the economy recovers from shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic, the recovery is uneven across sectors and income levels. The already-affluent at the…

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Star Wars Zero Company’s lead mission designer is eagerly waiting to watch all your all-astromech challenge runs: ‘Granted, it might not be a very easy thing to do’

R2-D2 is proof that the humble astromech droid is the unsung hero of the galaxy far, far away. During every climactic space battle, bombing run, and ill-considered marriage between dignitary and warrior monk, there was a heroic animate trashcan nearby guiding the course of history. Star Wars wouldn’t be the same without the astromech’s nobility…

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