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Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies — and he wants the U.S. government to step in. Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event on Monday, Amodei said that China is known for its “large-scale industrial espionage” and that AI companies like Anthropic are almost certainly being targeted. “Many of these algorithmic secrets, there are $100 million secrets that are a few lines of code,” he said. “And, you know, I’m sure that there are folks trying to steal them, and…

Katie Drummond: Got it. Wow. We’re in the midst of this outbreak that we talked about at the top. What happens now? Once a measles outbreak is out there, is spreading among a community, how do you contain something like that? What next steps would be necessary for the United States to actually get this outbreak under control?Emily Mullin: Yeah. Well, this is a great question. We have seen measles outbreaks before. You might remember that there was a large outbreak of measles back in 2019 that was concentrated in the Orthodox Jewish communities in New York. It really took…

Google has launched Gemma 3, the latest version of its family of open AI models that aim to set a new benchmark for AI accessibility. Built upon the foundations of the company’s Gemini 2.0 models, Gemma 3 is engineered to be lightweight, portable, and adaptable—enabling developers to create AI applications across a wide range of devices.   This release comes hot on the heels of Gemma’s first birthday, an anniversary underscored by impressive adoption metrics. Gemma models have achieved more than 100 million downloads and spawned the creation of over 60,000 community-built variants. Dubbed the “Gemmaverse,” this ecosystem signals a thriving…

It seems like a lot of brands will slap the words “pet hair” onto a product and market it as such without really specifying why or how it’s effective for pet hair. Of course, I tested those to see if they put their metaphorical vac mouths where their money was. On the flip side, I also tested some that were well rated for overall efficacy but not marketed toward pets—like the Roborock Saros 10R, a pricey robovac that uses AI mapping and can identify pets nearby and quiet its motor.Speaking of, vacuums and pets are inherently antithetical. Vacuums are a…

It’s time for spring cleaning, and if you’re currently looking at dirty floors, you might consider offloading some of that work to a robot. Our favorite robot vacuum and mop is currently on sale for $500, a full $300 off its normal list price, the lowest price yet for this relatively new and well-equipped device.Added to the midrange Qrevo line in late 2024, the Roborock Qrevo S boasts a modest suction power and wet mopping function. It has both bin emptying and mop washing, making cleanup and maintenance a breeze. We found it to be reliable and highly functional in…

The M4 also gives the MacBook Air its AI boost with Apple Intelligence. The 38 TOPS of local AI processing through the faster 16-core Neural Engine makes the M4 MacBook Air closer to the 48 TOPS on Intel’s Lunar Lake chips and 45 TOPS of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips.This is difficult to judge, because Apple Intelligence is very much still unfinished, but there are some new third-party apps that Apple is showcasing that use Apple Intelligence right out of the box in third-party applications, such as the note-taking app, Bear. You can now do things like automatically format text into…

The future of work is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and professionals worldwide are adapting swiftly to stay competitive in a rapidly changing landscape. As industries continue to embrace digital transformation, automation, and AI-driven technologies, the need for continuous learning and upskilling has never been more critical. To gain deeper insights into these shifts, Simplilearn’s Professional Sentiment Survey 2025 gathered responses from over 5,200 professionals across various industries, uncovering key trends in career aspirations, learning priorities, and the impact of emerging technologies. The survey results show that professionals are actively focusing on growth and understand the importance of Generative AI,…

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The phenomenon is known as immune amnesia, and it can leave people vulnerable to other infections for several weeks to months. Research has shown that it can take two to three years after a measles infection for protective immunity to fully return.“The measles virus is strongly immunosuppressive, meaning that it will interfere with the normal function of many white cells in the body that fight against other infections,” Fennelly says.One of those infections is bacterial pneumonia, which causes inflammation and fluid buildup in the lungs. About one in five people who get sick with measles in the US is hospitalized,…

Flower Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud platform for serving AI models, called Flower Intelligence. Mozilla is already using it to power the upcoming Assist summarization add-on for its Thunderbird email client. What makes Flower Intelligence unique, Flower Labs said in a post on X, is that it can drive on-device AI mobile, PC, and web apps that automatically hand off to a private cloud when needed (with a user’s permission). Apps default to an AI model running locally for speed and privacy but switch to Flower’s cloud when they require extra…