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On Friday, The Information reported that Meta was preparing to tear down its existing AI org and reorganize it into four new groups. Four days later, the change has been made official with an internal memo, as reported by Bloomberg and The New York Times. The changes were announced by Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as chief …

Aravind Srinivas wanted a simple answer. If Google had given him one, things might have turned out differently—for Srinivas and for Google. It was the fall of 2022, weeks before OpenAI would debut its viral AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Srinivas, then 28, was an ambitious AI researcher with a PhD from UC Berkeley and prestigious internships at OpenAI and Google’s AI …

Since their first implementation in Mexico and Japan, earthquake early-warning (EEW) systems have provided critical advance notice of imminent earthquakes to countless people. Many seismic countries, however, still don’t have the infrastructure necessary to sustain such crucial networks, leaving their populations vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. Researchers in the U.S. and Germany have tested a global earthquake detection and alert system …

In the remote, icy expanse of Antarctica, beneath layers of sediment untouched for millions of years, a fossil discovery has sent shockwaves through the scientific community. What was once thought to be an anomaly has now been identified as an extraordinary find, challenging long-held beliefs about ancient marine life and reproduction. This remarkable discovery could rewrite the history of prehistoric …

A new discovery in one of the most remote and extreme parts of the ocean is challenging our understanding of life at incredible depths. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, at nearly 8,000 meters, scientists have found an organism that defies expectations. For decades, this dark and hostile environment was thought to harbor only scavengers, but recent findings suggest there is …