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Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar joined Decoder this week to discuss the company’s “code red” response to AI, including its own new AI Assist chatbot. You might be able to guess where this is going.

Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks

We introduce FrontierScience, a new benchmark that evaluates AI capabilities for expert-level scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry, and biology.

A new Micro RGB TV is coming from LG

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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.

Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business

It looks like battery electric vehicles are out of fashion at the Blue Oval.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die

OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

Lidar-maker Luminar files for bankruptcy

The filing marks the end of a tumultuous year full of layoffs, executive departures, and piling debts.

Our partnership with the UK government

We're collaborating with the UK government to accelerate progress in science, education, national security and more.

AlphaFold

DeepMind’s AlphaGo program defeats legendary Go player Lee Sae Dol in a challenge match in Seoul. This watershed moment demonstrated that DeepMind’s AI techniques were potentially advanced enough to be applied to scientific challenges. A small team is established to start working on protein structure prediction.

Google DeepMind is bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy

We’re announcing our research partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to bring clean, safe, limitless fusion energy closer to reality with our advanced AI systems. This partnership builds …

Accelerating fusion science through learned plasma control

Successfully controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with deep reinforcement learning