The LightGen chip is orders of magnitude more efficient too. But it isn’t ready to break out of the lab just yet. As generative AI models grow more powerful, their energy use is becoming a serious bottleneck. A new fully optical generative AI chip could help by running advanced image and video

Future What Will Your Life Look Like in 2035?Words by Robert Booth and Dan Milmo. Illustrations by Jay Cover | The Guardian “When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. It could happen in the next few years, or a little longer. If and when it comes, our

Google plans to take a tangible first step in a new AI and computing moonshot by launching two prototype satellites to orbit in early 2027. Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research “moonshot” aiming to build a data center in space. The tech giant plans to use a constellation of

A Tanzania-led study pitted gene-edited mosquitoes against a wide range of malaria parasites found locally. Mosquitoes are an uncomfortable, itchy nuisance. But for people in sub-Saharan Africa, a bite could mean death. The pests are living incubators for the parasite that causes malaria. Roughly

The microbots have tiny computers, sensors, and actuators. They can sense temperature and swim autonomously. The robots, each the size of a single cell, casually turn circles in a bath of water. Suddenly, their sensors detect a change: Parts of the bath are heating up. The microrobots halt their