Physicist Bends Light With Gravity to Make New Mobile Sensing Device
Astrophysicists talk a lot about gravitational lensing, one of the more fun aspects of light’s infamous particle-wave duality.…
New electronically tunable quantum detector speeds up search for dark matter
For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for evidence of dark matter, an invisible substance they believe…
QCon London AI Coding State of the Game: More Capable, More Expensive, More Dangerous Coding Agents
In her QCon London keynote, Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer for AI-assisted Software Delivery at Thoughtworks, reflected on the…
Advance Your Socio-Technical Architecture Skills with InfoQ’s New Online Cohorts
For senior technical practitioners, scaling impact goes beyond writing better code or designing increasingly complex systems. The bottleneck…
Engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to…
AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds
AI image generation models have massive sets of visual data to pull from in order to create unique…
OpenAI Is Going Into the New Year With Some Real Loser Energy
OpenAI needs more compute. It’s not clear what it expects you or anyone else to do about that,…
Wall Street Sphincters Tighten as Oracle Delays Its OpenAI Data Center Buildout
It turns out infinite growth might not actually be possible. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Oracle will be…
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Is Coming in 2026
OpenAI announced the latest version of its flagship AI model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday in response to its ongoing…
Do Not, Under Any Circumstance, Buy Your Kid an AI Toy for Christmas
AI is all the rage, and that includes on the toy shelves for this holiday season. Tempting though…
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
Palantir CEO Alex Karp talks so much that you’d think that he just likes the sound of his…
Everyone Is Laying People Off This Week. Researchers Say They’re Going to Regret It
The nation’s largest employers are doing a lot less employing lately. In recent weeks, Amazon announced it would…