The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained control over how this technology is built than was once thought possible. Goodfire claims Silico…
Stocks broadly have been retreating in August after the best seven months of the year, with rising worries over elevated interest rates weighing on sentiment. Amid this, should you buy,…
Sitting in a meeting room in a startup office in Lisbon, I silently typed the answer to a question only the person opposite would know the answer to. What kind of coffee had I asked for when I’d arrived at the office? A short moment later, without even moving or opening his mouth, the reply […]
Netflix has inked a “first-of-its-kind” deal with Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecom operator, to bundle the streaming service with the carrier’s two pay-as-you-go plans as the American giant pushes to expand its subscriber base in the key Asian market. A Netflix mobile-only plan will come bundled with Jio’s 1,099 Indian rupees (or $13.2) plan, whereas […]
Figuring out the best ways to manage your college expenses can be overwhelming! As you brace up for your college days, you must already have applied for your scholarships and…
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. If you’ve been following health headlines in recent months, you may have heard that many prescription drugs are in short supply. Yesterday, the New York Times…
Realty Income (O), The Monthly Dividend Company, has a solid record of increasing the dividend more than 120 times since its stock market debut. However, is the stock the right…
Using heat generated by computers to provide free hot water was an idea born not in a high-tech laboratory, but in a battered country workshop deep in the woods of Godalming, England. “The idea of using the wasted heat of computing to do something else has been hovering in the air for some time,” explains…
In the center of the laboratory dish, there was a subtle white film that could only be seen when the light hit the right way. Ayse Nihan Kilinc, a reproductive biologist, popped the dish under the microscope, and an image appeared on the attached screen. As she focused the microscope, the film resolved into clusters…