Startup challenge seeks sustainable solutions to AI’s energy demands

A new contest is searching for solutions to a defining problem of the AI era: soaring energy consumption. The Energy Innovation for AI Startup Challenge launches amid growing concern over the environm [...]

UK unleashes drone-zapping microwave weapon amid defence tech drive

The British Army has successfully neutralised swarms of drones in a trial of the “RapidDestroyer” — a new kind of weapon that uses high-frequency microwaves to disable critical electronic compon [...]

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, April 18

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 18. [...]

The iPhone 18 is again tipped to get a major performance boost – but price hikes could follow

The iPhone 18 is rumored to be switching to a new manufacturing process, which is more expensive. [...]

AI has grown beyond human knowledge, says Google's DeepMind unit

A new agentic approach called 'streams' will let AI models learn from the experience of the environment without human 'pre-judgment'. [...]

Seedream 3.0 beats GPT-4os image generation, says ByteDance

ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality.<br /> The article Seedream 3.0 be [...]

Safety assessments show that OpenAI's o3 is probably the company's riskiest AI model to date

OpenAI's new language model o3 shows concrete signs of deception, manipulation and sabotage behavior for the first time. External auditors warn that conventional tests are no longer sufficient to [...]

Get three months of Apple TV+ for only $9

Apple TV+ has a ton of popular originals like Ted Lasso, Severance, Slow Horses, For All Mankind, Foundation and Silo. If you've been meaning to check them out, you can do so for less right now. [...]

Ryan Gosling's Star Wars movie is titled 'Starfighter' and will be released in 2027

Earlier this year, reports came out that Ryan Gosling was in talks for the lead role in Shawn Levy's Star Wars movie. Now, Gosling has confirmed that he will star in Levy's film, which the D [...]