What happens when venture capital and government pull back from science entrepreneurs at the same time? Many scientists think we’re about to find out, and are looking at how we can preserve our country’s innovative leadership. While others are pulling back, at Activate we’re leaning in and asking, “What should we teach the scientist founders we support so they can find the opportunity in this crisis?”
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Christopher Pelkey was shot and killed in a road range incident in 2021. On May 8, 2025, at the sentencing hearing for his killer, an AI video reconstruction of Pelkey delivered a victim impact statement. The trial judge reported being deeply moved by this performance and issued the maximum sentence for manslaught
Research on misinformation and disinformation has become the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s restructuring of federal research priorities.
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Data centers are popping up all over the world to support the quickly growing demand for all k
More than $60 billion of investment will be spent by Texas Instruments to build and expand seven semiconductor factories in the United States, creating more than 60,000 jobs in the country, the company said today.
The announcement, which will see the investment spent across seven semiconductor fabri
Scroll through a TikTok feed, and you’ll eventually come across someone—usually incredibly photogenic, with perfect teeth and flawless skin—extolling the virtues of some product or another, or a restaurant, or a destination. And then another. And another.
Influencer marketing is an unintended consequence of the social media revolution. Platforms like YouTube and TikTok allowed ordinary people to build followings—and, in a way, become celebrities. Brands and businesses soon la
If you’ve worried that AI might take your job, deprive you of your livelihood, or maybe even replace your role in society, it probably feels good to see that the latest AI tools fail spectacularly. If AI recommends glue as a pizza topping, then you’re safe for another day.
But the fact rem
Cheap or free access to AI models keeps improving, with Google the latest firm to make its newest models available to all users, not just paying ones. But that access comes with one cost: the environment.
In a new study, German researchers tested 14 large language models (LLMs) of various sizes f
As anti-ICE protests intensify across the country, kids are turning Roblox into a protest ground online.
Last week, thousands took to the streets to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Meanwhile, on Roblox, avatars faced off with players dressed in police SWAT gear in the popular Brookhaven roleplay world (based on the real city of Brookhaven, Georgia), as Taylor Lorenz
Amazon is gearing up to make as many as 10,000 robotaxis annually at a sprawling plant near Silicon Valley as it prepares to challenge self-driving cab leader Waymo. Tesla CEO Elon Musk