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Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space (opens the original)
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Google just put a refrigerator-sized satellite into space, part of a research project the company hopes can pave the way for orbiting AI data centers powered by the sun. The prototype satellite has four specialty chips in it called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, that Google designed for machine learning and has already deployed in data centers on Earth. The chips will run a version of the company's Gemma AI model for 15 minutes at a time due to heat management constraints, using the open weig
Everyone is racing to create an AI device. Meta thinks it has one (opens the original)
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Most of us use the internet and artificial intelligence on smartphones, but companies are scrambling to find the next big device - one that will be easier and more intuitive to use as AI gets smarter and can do more things. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, thinks the answer is eyeglasses. And NPR's John Ruwitch visited the Meta campus for a look. JOHN RUWITCH, BYLINE: At the company's recent annual developer summit, CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not talk about Meta's flagship social
When Trump and Xi meet they will discuss AI. 'Track Two' talks are already buzzing (opens the original)
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The United States and China are locked in a cycle of fierce competition and mistrust over artificial intelligence, and experts say the chances that President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping can change the dynamic when they meet in Washington next Thursday are dim. In the past few weeks alone, the Trump administration has accused Chinese AI companies of stealing intellectual property by "distilling" leading U.S. AI models, and threatened sanctions. Beijing, for its part, has poured scorn on U
Circuit training: How China is teaching humanoid robots to do useful things (opens the original)
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Humanoid robots are coming. Most are made in China, where the government wants them to join people in the workplace. NPR's John Ruwitch went to a training center where people are teaching them how. FAN JINGKANG: (Non-English language spoken). Twenty-year-old Fan Jingkang has a virtual reality headset slung around his neck and a VR controller in each hand. RUWITCH: He's at the controls of a humanoid robot on wheels. It's made of black and white plastic. It has a head with two camera lenses for ey
John Ruwitch (opens the original)
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John Ruwitch is a correspondent with NPR's international desk. He covers Chinese affairs. Ruwitch joined NPR in early 2020, and has since chronicled the tectonic shift in America's relations with China, from hopeful engagement to suspicion-fueled competition. He's also reported on a range of other issues, including Beijing's pressure campaign on Taiwan, Hong Kong's National Security Law, Asian-Americans considering guns for self-defense in the face of rising violence and a herd of elephants roam
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