Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light. After Pat Gelsinger departed Intel as CEO in late 2024, he held 100 meetings in 100 days. The idea, he told WIRED recently, was to whittle down his options until he figured out what to do next. The following March, Gelsinger announced that he had taken a position as general partner at Playground Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in deep tech, taking bets on fledgling technologies built on new science. Gelsinger took the role with the aim of helping a new generation of semiconductor startups reawaken Moore's law . Decades ago, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double roughly every two years, with a corresponding leap in performance.

Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google's military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why. Are the kids all right? The answer to that question probably depends on your criteria. At the very least, I can tell you that some of them are most definitely very mad. The anger percolating among America's youth was on display this graduation season, as college students across the country booed and jeered several high-profile commencement speakers who dared discuss--let alone extol the benefits of-- artificial intelligence . While AI use among college kids is widespread, so too is the fear and mistrust about what the technology might mean for the future. A recent Gallup poll found that Gen Z sentiment toward AI has significantly declined, with only 22 percent of respondents expressing excitement about the tech--and anxiety around AI affecting 42 percent of them. Among the commencement speech chaos, though, one school stood out to me: Stanford University. The California-based institution, long a key hub for Silicon Valley recruiting and a pipeline into elite tech gigs, this year saw more than a hundred students walk out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's remarks to graduates. Ironically, Pichai didn't explicitly mention AI in his address at all.

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What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain? Trump: Latest strikes on Iran'in honour' of killed US military personnel The United States military said on Sunday that a US service member was killed on Saturday in northern Iraq, where US forces are based. The US Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for operations in the Middle East, said the soldier died during a controlled detonation of what it called unexploded ordnance on a downed Iranian attack drone. How many US soldiers died in the Iran war? The latest casualty announcements increased to 17 the number of US military personnel killed since the war began, and at least 420 wounded -- with at least one missing.

Donald Trump ignores FIFA president's call to leave the stage as he joins Spain's World Cup final trophy lift in awkward moment Trump's cringe World Cup cameo was a fitting finale to a tournament blighted by excess, greed and FIFA boss Gianni Infantino's twisted dreams Prince Harry has claimed England lacked the winning'mindset' needed to reach the country's first World Cup final since 1966 World Cup fans brand FIFA's first-ever halftime show a'disaster' as Madonna and Bieber's bizarre spectacle divides billions No one's shocked Harry wants to reverse Megxit. Trump demands Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney'pay some damages' for wildfire smoke coming across border: 'Our air has been poisoned' Vice President JD Vance's wife Usha gives birth to baby boy Winner of nearly $2 BILLION lottery jackpot is embattled Arkansas mayor's brother Tennessee mom accused of executing young man on her front lawn claimed she found him HIDING under her daughter's bed FIFA fans STUNNED after learning Shakira's real age during her World Cup halftime performance: 'I refuse to believe it' Selena Gomez has passionate kiss with husband Benny Blanco... after he sailed overseas to mark her birthday Scandal engulfs'it girl' fashion empire Set Active: Explosive claims about influencer founder's desperate fixation... 'inappropriate' texts that went ignored... and why employees wanted to stay on her'good side' Bodycam footage shows shocking altercation between college student and police over'misgendering' Trump unleashes NINTH night of Iran strikes in revenge for three fallen US soldiers: 'We hit them very hard' 'The most common disease you've never heard of': Why your recurring dizzy spells could actually be caused by'hidden' migraines - these simple lifestyle changes can help Inside Luke Wilson's reclusive life with decades-younger girlfriend Kendall Yates: Friends reveal new details about their'secretive' romance after birth of their child... as unseen pictures of her emerge World Cup fans fume over Jennifer Hudson's US national anthem performance at the final... two weeks after team got knocked out The science of a sub-four-minute mile: As Josh Kerr smashes the world record, experts reveal how the Scottish athlete's supershoes, 'speed suit', and strong stature helped him to make history This weekend, 28-year-old Josh Kerr ran a mile in just three minutes and 42.66 seconds, smashing a record that has stood almost as long as he has been alive. In a stunning performance at the World Athletics Diamond League competition, Kerr shaved nearly half a second off the mile record set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999. So, what was the key to Kerr's incredible success? Kerr ran his record-breaking race in a pair of one-of-a-kind supershoes that were specially designed for his feet and running style.

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Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) break the rigid left-to-right constraint of traditional LLMs, enabling token generation in arbitrary orders. Intuitively, this flexibility implies a solution space that strictly supersets the fixed autoregressive trajectory, theoretically unlocking superior reasoning potential. Indeed, for specific constraint satisfaction tasks (e.g., sudoku puzzles), this capability has proven to be highly advantageous. However, in this paper, we reveal that for general reasoning tasks (e.g., mathematics and coding), arbitrary order generation may in fact limit the reasoning potential of dLLMs. We find that dLLMs tend to exploit this order flexibility to bypass high-uncertainty tokens that are crucial for exploration, leading to a premature collapse of solution coverage. This observation motivates a rethink of RL approaches for dLLMs, where considerable complexities, such as handling combinatorial trajectories and intractable likelihoods, are often devoted to preserving this flexibility. We demonstrate that effective reasoning can be better elicited by simply forgoing arbitrary order and applying standard Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) instead. Our approach, JustGRPO, is minimalist yet surprisingly effective (e.g., 89.1% accuracy on GSM8K) while fully retaining the parallel decoding ability of dLLMs.

Angel Reese thanks WNBA for suspending Sandy Brondello, frames'protected species' comment as discrimination Rory McIlroy should be the last golfer to criticize others for'performative' behavior Brexton Busch wins first race since father Kyle Busch's death in emotional return to Victory Lane Caitlin Clark'cheering hard' for Argentina over Spain in World Cup final: 'I want Messi' Ella Langley turns 63-year-old former NFL head coach into'Ella Fella' I am once again begging the folks in USC's athletic department to study some Greek literature Jaxson Dart's swimsuit model girlfriend gets patriotic, golfer Hailey Ostrom takes on Lake Powell & Bigfoot Caitlin Clark's former teammate calls out WNBA for suspending Tempo head coach over'protected species' remark Mark Levin: Trump is the ONLY president to recognize this... Iranian regime has proven they will not abide by'any agreement': Former Israeli ambassador Christopher Nolan brings'The Odyssey' to life with groundbreaking IMAX technology WATCH: Anchor STUNNED by socialist's answer More than 200 military musicians bring America's story to life The World Cup final on Sunday provided a tense, low-scoring finish to a memorable tournament held across the United States. Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win the World Cup, but President Donald Trump ended up sharing plenty of the spotlight after joining the trophy ceremony. Rodri of Spain is presented with the FIFA World Cup Winner's Trophy by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and President Donald Trump after Spain's victory over Argentina in the FIFA World Cup 2026 final at New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on July 19, 2026. FIFA President Gianni Infantino and President Donald J. Trump present the FIFA World Cup trophy to Rodri of Spain during the FIFA World Cup 2026 final match between Spain and Argentina at New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (Europa Press Sports/Europa Press) Trump, alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino, walked to the stage, drawing a mix of cheers and boos as he greeted Spain's players before the trophy presentation. Fox WORLD CUP ANNOUNCER SAYS TRUMP'S APPEARANCE AT FINAL IS'FUN, UNIQUE THING' DESPITE POTENTIAL BACKLASH Trump was briefly part of Spain's team photo as the players hoisted the trophy before Infantino stepped in and suggested he move aside.

A celebration of life service and procession has been announced in Swansea following the death of Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. The Total Eclipse of the Heart singer died unexpectedly on 8 July, aged 75, at a Portugal hospital, as a result of the illness that she was being treated for, her family said in a statement released on the star's official website, external . At the time, tributes poured in from a host of friends and stars including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart. It has now been confirmed that her coffin will be brought to her Mumbles home on 15 August at 15:30 BST, with people invited to pay their respects by lining Newton Road at 15:15. Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins - also known for hits including Holding Out For A Hero and Here She Comes - is survived by her husband of more than 50 years, Robert Sullivan.

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