OpenAI unveils AI chip Jalapeno
OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled its first custom-designed computer chip, called Jalapeno, built to run ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products faster and more cheaply.
Jun 24, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
AI is an energy and water hog, here's what you can do to counter that
As the world tries to curb human-caused climate change and not run dry of water, every online query is increasing our environmental footprint and exacerbating the problem.
Jun 24, 2026
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Robotics
Friendly social robots may help ease a child's anxiety at the doctor's office
When 3-year-old Cameron arrived at the UC Davis MIND Institute for a recent medical appointment, she was in for a surprise: cuddly, social AI robots visiting from Japan were in the waiting room. "We both melted when we saw ...
Jun 24, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Meta offers lower cost glasses as wearables competition heats up
Meta on Tuesday launched a new line of smart glasses priced slightly lower than its Ray-Ban-branded glasses, as competition heats up in the AI-powered wearable tech space.
Jun 24, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Top developers are pivoting from chatbots to physical AI
Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models—the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude—when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end.
Jun 24, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
E-learning helps regulators navigate a changing grid
It is the second day of a massive heat wave. Across the region, thermostats are cranked, air conditioners are laboring, and wind turbines have gone still. Without warning, a summer storm moves in, and the solar generation ...
Jun 23, 2026
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Engineering
AI gives building inspection photos the location data they were missing
When a building inspector takes a photo of a cracked wall, a leaking pipe or a faulty ceiling panel, that image carries almost no information about where exactly it was taken. There's no GPS signal indoors, and manually recording ...
Jun 23, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Forgetting may be the secret to better AI language learning
Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) ...
Jun 23, 2026
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Internet
AI chatbots hit the dating scene, becoming the lovelorn's modern-day Cyrano
Marie Lansley recently started a new job in a new city while searching for a new partner. In her dating pursuits, the freshly minted San Franciscan said she's been "trying everything"— including some help from artificial ...
Jun 23, 2026
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Hardware
Brain-inspired AI architecture could compute faster while using far less power
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are artificial intelligence (AI) models inspired by how biological neurons communicate with each other. While biological neurons exchange information in the form of electrical impulses, SNNs ...
