Alan Turing's biggest AI assumption may have been wrong
A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, ca…
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A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, ca…
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Tesla Robotaxis Go Fully Driverless in Austin
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Tesla has officially shifted to fully unsupervised operations in Austin, Texas, with 170 monitored rides completed without a human safety monitor behind the wheel.
The project now involves 54 unique vehicles operating across the city. Elon Musk previously hinted at this transition, and the fleet is rapidly expanding into Dallas and Houston, where roughly 30 driverless units are already active. 🏙️
Early users are reporting significant operational hurdles that mar the experience. The main complaints include:
📍 Wait times stretching over an hour for short, 2-mile trips.
📍 Persistent missed pickups where the car fails to locate the rider.
📍 Inaccurate drop-off locations, often leaving passengers blocks or even miles from their intended destination.
This puts Tesla in a direct race against Waymo, which is currently operating its paid service in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. While Waymo relies on purpose-built Zeekr vehicles for its fleet, Tesla is attempting to achieve similar results using its standard consumer cars. The gap between the promise of autonomy and daily reality is currently quite wide. 📉
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Tesla has officially shifted to fully unsupervised operations in Austin, Texas, with 170 monitored rides completed without a human safety monitor behind the wheel.
The project now involves 54 unique vehicles operating across the city. Elon Musk previously hinted at this transition, and the fleet is rapidly expanding into Dallas and Houston, where roughly 30 driverless units are already active. 🏙️
Early users are reporting significant operational hurdles that mar the experience. The main complaints include:
📍 Wait times stretching over an hour for short, 2-mile trips.
📍 Persistent missed pickups where the car fails to locate the rider.
📍 Inaccurate drop-off locations, often leaving passengers blocks or even miles from their intended destination.
This puts Tesla in a direct race against Waymo, which is currently operating its paid service in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. While Waymo relies on purpose-built Zeekr vehicles for its fleet, Tesla is attempting to achieve similar results using its standard consumer cars. The gap between the promise of autonomy and daily reality is currently quite wide. 📉
Self-driving convenience still feels like a gamble.
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Rights for rivers and ice cream for all: top reads for the summer holidays
Ten Nature contributors share their current book obsessions.
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Renewables set to overtake natural gas by 2027
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that renewable energy capacity in the United States will surpass natural gas by summer 2027. This shift, highlighted in a review by the SUN DAY Campaign, is driven largely by the rapid installation of small-scale solar panels on homes and businesses.
This transition signals a move toward a more decentralized power grid. We are shifting from a system that depends on a few massive, central power plants toward one supported by millions of smaller, local energy sources.
▫️ Small-scale solar reduces the load on main transmission lines by creating power where it is used.
▫️ Falling equipment costs make renewable energy adoption accessible to more homeowners.
▫️ Grid operators are modernizing infrastructure to handle diverse, local power inputs more effectively.
For years, natural gas has been the dominant fuel source and the primary replacement for retiring coal plants across the country. With renewables now catching up, the heavy reliance on a single, fuel-intensive technology is finally being eclipsed by a diverse mix of power sources.
The energy systems that power our daily lives are transforming in real time.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that renewable energy capacity in the United States will surpass natural gas by summer 2027. This shift, highlighted in a review by the SUN DAY Campaign, is driven largely by the rapid installation of small-scale solar panels on homes and businesses.
This transition signals a move toward a more decentralized power grid. We are shifting from a system that depends on a few massive, central power plants toward one supported by millions of smaller, local energy sources.
▫️ Small-scale solar reduces the load on main transmission lines by creating power where it is used.
▫️ Falling equipment costs make renewable energy adoption accessible to more homeowners.
▫️ Grid operators are modernizing infrastructure to handle diverse, local power inputs more effectively.
For years, natural gas has been the dominant fuel source and the primary replacement for retiring coal plants across the country. With renewables now catching up, the heavy reliance on a single, fuel-intensive technology is finally being eclipsed by a diverse mix of power sources.
The energy systems that power our daily lives are transforming in real time.
Energy independence is becoming personal.
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“Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP”
I prove that competitive market outcomes require computational intractability. If P = NP, firms can efficiently solve the collusion detection problem, identifying deviations from cooperative agreements in complex, noisy markets and thereby making collusion su…
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I prove that competitive market outcomes require computational intractability. If P = NP, firms can efficiently solve the collusion detection problem, identifying deviations from cooperative agreements in complex, noisy markets and thereby making collusion su…
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Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration.
"The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, b…
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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration.
"The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, b…
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The manosphere’s testosterone fever is coming for the troops
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I was in the middle of writing a different …
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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I was in the middle of writing a different …
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Photos: When the World Cup came to town
NPR member station photographers captured images of World Cup watch parties outside stadium gates, on street corners and in public parks and squares as the World Cup became, for a brief period, a part of local life.
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NPR member station photographers captured images of World Cup watch parties outside stadium gates, on street corners and in public parks and squares as the World Cup became, for a brief period, a part of local life.
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The Next Startup Gold Rush Is in Civilization Technology — Here’s Where Entrepreneurs Should Look
After SpaceX, the next blockbuster IPO may come from civilization technology firms building the energy, defense, AI, space and biotech systems modern life needs to survive today.
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After SpaceX, the next blockbuster IPO may come from civilization technology firms building the energy, defense, AI, space and biotech systems modern life needs to survive today.
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 300,000 workers are needed to rebuild American shipbuilding—with jobs paying $100,000 without a college degree
The American Dream now runs through the skilled trades, according to Jamie Dimon—and his bank is investing $24 million to ramp up training in Philadelphia.
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The American Dream now runs through the skilled trades, according to Jamie Dimon—and his bank is investing $24 million to ramp up training in Philadelphia.
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