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Q&A with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman on LLMs becoming more controllable, “interactive” AI after generative AI, AI regulation being achievable, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Q&A with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman on LLMs becoming more controllable, “interactive” AI after generative AI, AI regulation being achievable, and more  —  DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat.

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An interview with Tim Cook on Apple’s pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, the Vision Pro, return to the office, why Apple still advertises on X, and more (John Dickerson/CBS News)

John Dickerson / CBS News: An interview with Tim Cook on Apple’s pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, the Vision Pro, return to the office, why Apple still advertises on X, and more  —  In Brown County, Texas – flat, dry, near the geographical center of the state – Apple has invested in a

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Buck Converter Takes 8V to 100V

For those living before the invention of the transistor, the modern world must appear almost magical. Computers are everywhere now and are much more reliable, but there are other less obvious changes as well. Someone from that time would have needed a huge clunky machine like a motor-generator set to convert DC voltages, but we

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KKR agrees to buy 20% of Singapore-based Singtel’s regional datacenter business for ~$807M at a ~$4B valuation, with an option to raise its stake to 25% by 2027 (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)

Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: KKR agrees to buy 20% of Singapore-based Singtel’s regional datacenter business for ~$807M at a ~$4B valuation, with an option to raise its stake to 25% by 2027  —  – It’s making its latest bet on Asian digital infrastructure  — Demand for datacenters and networking surging because of AI

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The End of Basic?

Many people, one way or another, got started programming computers using some kind of Basic. The language was developed at Dartmouth specifically so people could write simple programs without much training. However, Basic found roots in small computers and grew to where it is today, virtually unrecognizable. Writing things in something like Visual Basic may

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Repairable smartphones need a futureproof processor too

The self-repairable Fairphone 5 has given us much to discuss, whether we’re missing the days of replaceable batteries or in awe at the phone’s best-in-class update policy and eco-credentials. But equally intriguing is the processor powering the phone — a previously unseen Qualcomm QCM6490. Poking around Qualcomm’s documentation, the QCM6490 is built for IoT applications

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PyOBD Gets Python3 Upgrades

One of the best things about open source software is that, instead of being lost to the ravages of time like older proprietary software, anyone can dust off an old open source program and bring it up to the modern era. PyOBD, a python tool for interfacing with the OBD system in modern vehicles, was

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How Spotify and other streaming services have transformed the sound of music: songs are shorter, albums are longer, and artists collaborate more across genres (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How Spotify and other streaming services have transformed the sound of music: songs are shorter, albums are longer, and artists collaborate more across genres  —  To succeed on Spotify and other services, songs are getting shorter, albums are getting longer, and artists are collaborating across genres.

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Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography is a book of rigorous and dogged reportage, but lacks analysis and often ignores the moments at which Musk’s flaws scale (Constance Grady/Vox)

Constance Grady / Vox: Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography is a book of rigorous and dogged reportage, but lacks analysis and often ignores the moments at which Musk’s flaws scale  —  In Walter Isaacson’s buzzy new biography, Elon Musk emerges as a callous, chaos-loving man without empathy.

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