The controversial dinosaur species was officially described last year after 80 years of debate. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Almost one year ago, paleontologists finally settled a longstanding debate about, arguably Earth's most famous dinosaur . After reviewing decades of mounting evidence, researchers documented around 150 morphological differences across multiple supposed juvenile skeletons. Instead of young dinosaurs, these were actually adult examples of an entirely separate species now known as .

Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change--or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wheel. When it comes to deciding the fate of the planet, Colleen Golja always thought science and reason would have a seat at the table. That was until one morning last September in London, when the climate researcher took part in the first in a series of war games. The goal: to prevent an uncontrolled global race to develop a technology aimed at cooling the planet but that comes with vast, unknown risks that could reshape life on Earth. "I thought that would be such an easy thing. Like, we can all agree to do ethical research and make sure it's for the better of all humans," she told WIRED.

Mistral Says Its New AI Model'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it's "still in the race" to build frontier-level artificial intelligence. As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely-available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new one trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4--nicknamed Le Chonk--can be used and customized by anyone. It's currently available in preview, with a final version to follow by the end of the month. Though Le Chonk is built to compete with leading general purpose models, it's optimized specifically for coding and cyberdefense, as well as tasks particular to manufacturing, finance, electrical engineering, and other niches.

The Chinese AI champion has also begun laying the groundwork to gauge investor sentiment through early-look meetings starting as soon as this month.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. California man's smuggling scheme sent $300 million in AI hardware to China, feds say This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. The owner of a San Gabriel Valley technology company was arrested Thursday after federal prosecutors charged him with smuggling more than $300 million of restricted computer hardware to China.

Officials say Lui used his company to buy and send items to China without the licenses required by the Department of Commerce. Officials say Lui used his company to buy and send items to China without the licenses required by the Department of Commerce. US authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than $300m worth of computer servers to China, the Department of Justice announced. Greg Lui, 38, of California, also known as "Yiu Kong Lui", allegedly used false paperwork and shipments through third countries to smuggle the export-controlled computer servers to China, the justice department said in a statement on Thursday. The servers contained "US-manufactured graphics processing units (GPUs) commonly used for Super Intelligence (SI)", it added, using the Trump administration's new name for artificial intelligence (AI).

US prosecutors just charged a man with smuggling NVIDIA chips to China, and government officials are saying the company isn't doing all it could to stop the illegal activities, Bloomberg reported. Earlier this year, officials released a surveillance video showing someone using a red hair dryer to peel serial number stickers off NVIDIA server boxes in an effort to sneak AI chips to China. And yesterday, federal authorities arrested a man named Greg Lui for smuggling servers containing 300 million worth of AI chips to China, in violation of US export laws. Those efforts reportedly show how an expanded network of criminals is attempting to reroute NVIDIA's AI chips to China, profiting from Washington's export controls that make the contraband silicon valuable. NVIDIA says it has abided by the rules and the company has never been accused of abetting smuggling.

A U.S.-China AI treaty with five key pillars, including a global pause on superintelligence, could address AI safety risks before humanity loses control of the technology.

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From robot baristas to AI-powered transport, healthcare and education, artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in daily life across China.