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Apple debuts intelligence, Mistral raises $600 million, new AI text-to-video

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The Apple Siri AI icon is appearing on a smartphone, with Apple Intelligence on … [+] background, in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images “Siri is getting an AI brain transplant,” wrote Brian X. Chen of the NY Times. With … Read more

Two million years ago, an encounter between the sun and something outside the solar system changed all life on Earth

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New research from Boston University and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute suggests that the Sun passed through a large hydrogen cloud two million years ago, directly impacting its protective heliosphere and may have forever changed all life on Earth. The evidence for this event and its effects on Earth’s climate also indicates that the location of … Read more