AI is a tool, not a new species
You’re reading Superintelligent, a newsletter about AI. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Thomas Rid is...
Emerald AI raises $25 million from Nvidia and others to build a fast pass for data centers connecting to the grid
While working at a major renewable energy developer, Varun Sivaram realized that the boom in AI and data centers were...
Israel mandates death penalty for West Bank Palestinians who kill in terrorist acts
TEL AVIV — The Israeli parliament voted Monday to make death by hanging the default penalty for Palestinians from the...
Cesar Chavez Was a Voice for Mexican Americans Like Me. Now, We Grieve.
Before I learned anything else about American history in elementary school, I knew about the grape boycotts that Cesar Chavez...
This App Makes Even the Sketchiest PDF or Word Doc Safe to Open
Word documents, and even PDF files, aren’t necessarily safe. These normally innocuous files can be injected with malicious “poison” code...
Latino Republicans in South Texas Break With Trump Over Birthright Citizenship
Outside a cafe in South Texas, Samuel Garza, an actor on break with his Mexican cinema troupe, was bracing for...
Sketches Found in a Closet Reveal Reality of the Holocaust
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out about sketches from a concentration camp that turned up in a closet...
President has shackled Republicans with ‘huge challenge’: ex-Trump official
President Donald Trump has shackled Republicans with a “huge challenge” heading into the midterm election cycle, according to a former...
These Two Countries With Social Media Bans Aren’t Happy With Google and Meta
The Indonesian authorities have summoned officials from Google and Meta over what they said was a failure to comply with...
A Penn professor used AI to replicate part of a master’s course — and says it threatens universities’ business model
Penn economics professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde said he used AI to replicate a master's-level course in just 12 hours. Courtesy of...
