The competition for the world’s best AI talent is frenzied. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, has personally taken charge of efforts to recruit for a “superintelligence” lab. The sums on offer...
AS A TEENAGER in Oregon, Jensen Huang was one mean ping-pong player. In 1978 his mentor, Lou Bochenski, described him in a letter to Sports Illustrated as “perhaps the most promising junior...
Nestled among the Oquirrh Mountains in Utah is the deepest open-pit copper mine on Earth. The Bingham Canyon mine, once owned by the Guggenheims and now run by Rio Tinto, has been...
Not since the first world war, when America’s government nationalised the railroad system, has it made the kind of investment it announced on July 10th. For $400m, the Department of Defence acquired...
PATNA IS A day trip away from Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment, and the ruins of Nalanda, an ancient monastery visited by the Chinese monk Xuanzang...
Around the beginning of last year, Matthew Prince started receiving worried calls from the chief executives of large media companies. They told Mr Prince, whose firm, Cloudflare, provides security infrastructure to about...
Late in 2023 Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, began peddling a new idea. Every country, he said, should have its own artificial-intelligence (AI) system, trained on domestic data, aligned with national...
MID-JULY is the time to bare it all. On the beach, this involves swimwear that, au fait with the latest fashion, varies in skimpiness from extreme to disturbing. In the boardroom, it...
