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Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar for $11.57bn in challenge to Musk’s Starlink

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Deal, subject to regulatory approval, would give Bezos firm access to Globalstar’s network of two dozen satellitesAmazon said on Tuesday it would acquire a satellite company in an $11.57bn deal, bolstering its own fledgling space business as it looks to take on Elon Musk-led bigger rival Starlink.The deal gives Amazon access to Globalstar’s network of […]

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier

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Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our ownBecause of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on

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To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

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I’ve been teaching college Earth science courses as a part-time faculty member for a long time now, all while juggling other jobs. I started because it was enjoyable; no one gets into this line of work for the famously poor pay or complete lack of job security. Working with students is just one of those

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AI to predict how bowel cancer patients will respond to new NHS drug

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PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for themA new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has been announced.Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health

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Brian Cox: ‘We don’t know how powerful AI is going to become – it’s both exciting and potentially a problem’

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The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moonsWhat is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence?It came from a book that I’ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of

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Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation

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Elon Musk’s aerospace to AI company will host summer event to try to convince buyers it is worth $2tnBusiness live – latest updatesSpaceX will kick off the marketing for its highly anticipated stock exchange debut by hosting an event in June for 1,500 retail investors, as executives set out to convince buyers that the aerospace-to-artificial-intelligence

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Research finds AI users scarily willing to “surrender” their cognition to LLMs

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When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource

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UK’s leading AI research institute told to make ‘significant’ changes

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Body that funds Alan Turing Institute says it should offer better strategy and more value for moneyThe UK’s leading AI research institute has been told to make “significant” changes by its main source of taxpayer funding.The warning comes after the Guardian revealed the board of the Alan Turing Institute was reminded of its legal duties

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We need a credible plan for science funding in the UK | Letters

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Prof Ruben Saakyan and Prof Sheila Rowan respond to Prof Charlotte Deane of UK Research and InnovationIf the UK’s position in quantum computing is indeed a success story of long-term investment in fundamental science, as Prof Charlotte Deane argues (Letters, 25 March), it makes the current UK Research and Innovation approach, particularly to Science and Technology

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