The US v. Google ruling signals a cautious antitrust approach by courts and a reluctance to intervene too deeply, ahead of other Big Tech antitrust rulings
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Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking CS programs to adapt to generative AI, like focusing more on computational thinking and AI literacy
Computer science education will probably focus less on coding and more on computational thinking and A.I. literacy, said Mary Lou Maher … Bluesky: @ctmathewes . LinkedIn: Steve Lohr and Mary Lou Maher...
How the Mayo Clinic uses AI to boost efficiency and amplify human abilities in its radiology department, which has an AI team of 40 people and 400+ radiologists
the physician specialists in medical imaging who look inside the body to diagnose and treat disease — are still in high demand. A recent study from the American College of Radiology projected a stead...
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed
This is all well-and-good...provided that this is actually the process through which science works. And it's not. — www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t... X: Kenneth Stanley / @kenneth0stanley : Important...
Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling “tiny team” success stories
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Sources: TSMC's execs took to calling Sam Altman a “podcasting bro” after he said it would take $7T and many years to build 36 chip plants to fulfill his vision
OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion Zo Ahmed / TechSpot : OpenAI's Sam Altman dismissed as “podcasting bro” by TSMC over $7 trillion proposal Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : O...
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft's loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision
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How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, generating 50TB of raw data daily, part of a wave of startups looking to harness AI in medicine
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DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91
Steve Lohr / New York Times : X: @nytimes and @stevelohr . LinkedIn: Dario Gil . Forums: Slashdot X: @nytimes : Robert Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon memory technology that plays an in...
A US federal judge grills the DOJ and Google in the closing arguments of US v. Google, as the most consequential tech antitrust case since the 1990s concludes
and Big Tech — hangs in the balance at trial Legit.ng : US judge grills both sides in landmark Google antitrust trial Laura Bratton / Quartz : Google's landmark antitrust trial is coming to a close Ch...