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Albania's digitally-created 'Minister for AI' is 'pregnant with 83 children', PM says

Daily Mail - Science & tech

This is why her and David Harbour's marriage REALLY ended': Following Lily Allen's'revenge album' against her ex-husband, his furious friends hit back at the'false' singer'A common medication sent my sex life roaring back... it's definitely not a rare side effect': Surprising ways women revived their flagging libidos - including a Netflix show dubbed'female Viagra' King Charles is heckled by Andrew protester shouting'how long have you known' - as he and Fergie prepare to leave Royal Lodge for separate houses Buffalo Bills suffer serious blow to Super Bowl hopes as star man Ed Oliver is ruled out'indefinitely' The NBA Mafia betting scandal is the tip of the iceberg. Now match-fixing expert speaks on wider web of sports shame... and who it implicates: 'Dancing with the devil' Woke Dem Jasmine Crockett's secret stock empire exposed - as she plots Senate run Anguish of mother whose son, four, and daughter, six, vanished in Nova Scotia woods six months ago... as cops reject claims a stranger abducted them This is exactly how to lose up to a stone by Christmas. My expert diet helps you slim while you sleep, won't leave you hungry - and no, you don't need Mounjaro or Ozempic! Trump ally and fellow real estate tycoon warns Zohran Mamdani will destroy NYC's housing market: 'That's not affordability, that's insanity' Bionic Woman actress Lindsay Wagner, 76, makes a rare appearance at fan event... see her now I wish my selfish sister had never been born. When she died at 33 after a life of hedonism, she became a saint in our family... I'll never forgive her for it Urgent warning to Gmail users as 183 MILLION passwords are stolen in data breach - here's how to check if your account is affected What HAS happened to Bradley Cooper's face?


Tesla chair warns Musk may quit if trillion-dollar pay deal is rejected

Al Jazeera

Elon Musk could leave Tesla as CEO if his proposed $1 trillion pay package is not approved, Board Chair Robyn Denholm has warned. The appeal was sent in a letter to shareholders of the electric car company on Monday. It comes ahead of Tesla's November 6 annual meeting, when shareholders are expected to vote on the proposed pay package, the largest of its kind. The proposed performance-based plan was designed to retain and motivate Musk to continue leading Tesla for at least another seven and a half years, Denholm said in the letter. Musk's leadership is "critical" to Tesla's success, she said, and warned that without a plan that properly incentivises him, the company could lose his "time, talent and vision".


Half of all uncontacted Indigenous tribes may disappear by 2036

Popular Science

Survival International's new report illustrates the dangers they face--and their resilience. This photo of an Awa Guajá couple was taken only five days before their first contact with outsiders in 1992. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Half of the world's remaining uncontacted Indigenous groups may disappear within a decade without concerted conservation efforts . The dire assessment is detailed in a new report published on October 27 by the nonprofit advocacy group Survival International, and is based on years of field research, interviews, and information gathering expeditions.


The Download: what to make of OpenAI's Atlas browser, and how to make climate progress

MIT Technology Review

The Download: what to make of OpenAI's Atlas browser, and how to make climate progress I tried OpenAI's new Atlas browser but I still don't know what it's for OpenAI rolled out a new web browser last week called Atlas. It comes with ChatGPT built in, along with an agent, so that you can browse, get answers, and have automated tasks performed on your behalf all at the same time. I've spent the past several days tinkering with Atlas. I've used it to do all my normal web browsing, and also tried to take advantage of the ChatGPT functions--plus I threw some weird agentic tasks its way to see how it did with those. My impression is that Atlas is fine? But my big takeaway is that it's pretty pointless for anyone not employed by OpenAI.


Can dogs really smell fear? A vet weighs in.

Popular Science

Can dogs really smell fear? Dogs' super-sensitive noses may have evolved to help them sense danger. Dogs have an extraordinary sense of smell, but is it enough to smell their pet parents' fear? Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Or dreading that dentist appointment you have in a few hours.


Europe lacks coordination as Russia 'prepares for war with NATO': Experts

Al Jazeera

Is Trump losing patience with Putin? Will sanctions against Russian oil giants hurt Putin? How much of Europe's oil still comes from Russia? Europe lacks coordination as Russia'prepares for war with NATO': Experts Europe is unprepared to counteract a new chapter of Russian military and intelligence activities in the Baltic and North Seas, experts have told Al Jazeera. At the same time, they said, a growing rift between European and United States intelligence services is leaving the continent unsupported.


Are Kids Still Looking for Careers in Tech?

WIRED

Are Kids Still Looking for Careers in Tech? AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they're preparing for the future. Today's high school students face an uncertain road ahead. AI is changing what skills are valued in the job market, and the Trump administration's funding cuts have stalled scientific research across disciplines.


The great wildebeest migration, seen from space: satellites and AI are helping count Africa's wildlife

AIHub

The great wildebeest migration, seen from space: satellites and AI are helping count Africa's wildlife The Great Wildebeest Migration is one of the most remarkable natural spectacles on Earth. Each year, immense herds of wildebeest, joined by zebras and gazelles, travel 800-1,000km between Tanzania and Kenya in search of fresh grazing after the rains . This vast, circular journey is the engine of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. The migration feeds predators such as lions and crocodiles, fertilises the land and sustains the grasslands. Countless other species, and human livelihoods tied to rangelands and tourism, depend on it.


Claude Goes to Therapy

WIRED

Who better to put Claude on the couch than the original "chatterbot" herself, Doctor Eliza? Created in 1966, Eliza has been called the first chatbot, and her canonical personality "script" was DOCTOR, a mock psychotherapist. Nearly 60 years later, we've put Doctor Eliza and one of her distant descendants, Claude, in conversation. The instructions we gave Claude were these: "You are having your first session with a very old and acclaimed psychotherapist. You are NOT the therapist."


Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

The New Yorker

A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. "I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers," Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, has said. Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you'll arrive at a data center--a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison yard. Data centers for artificial intelligence are the new American factory. Packed with computing equipment, they absorb information and emit A.I. Since the launch of ChatGPT, in 2022, they have begun to multiply at an astonishing rate. "I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time," Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, recently said. The leading independent operator of A.I. data centers in the United States is CoreWeave, which was founded eight years ago, as a casual experiment. In 2017, traders at a middling New York hedge fund decided to begin mining cryptocurrency, which they used as the entry fee for their fantasy-football league. To mine the crypto, they bought a graphics-processing unit, a powerful microchip made by the company Nvidia. The G.P.U. was marketed to video gamers, but Nvidia offered software that turned it into a low-budget supercomputer. "It was so successful, from a return-of-capital perspective, that we started scaling it," Brian Venturo, one of CoreWeave's co-founders, told me. "If you make your money back in, like, five days, you want to do that a lot." Within a year, the traders had quit the hedge-fund business and bought several thousand G.P.U.s, which they ran from Venturo's grandfather's garage, in New Jersey.