Two breakthroughs made 2023 tech’s most innovative year in over a decade

Apple Vision Pro (left) and ChatGPT (right) injected new energy into tech in 2023. Jason Hiner/ZDNET Government scrutiny of big tech and a series of iterative upgrades of iconic products such as the iPhone have largely dominated the last decade in tech. Not since the rise of 4G unleashed a wave real-time apps such as … Read more

AI in 2023: A year of breakthroughs that left no human thing unchanged

Qi Yang/Getty Images 2023 has unfolded as a testament to the extraordinary advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). In a year awash with groundbreaking technological leaps and profound ethical debates, we have witnessed AI’s unprecedented influence in unexpected areas — including some indelible marks on entertainment. From the debut of cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) to … Read more

Ukrainian Soldiers Say the Wagner Implosion Has Allowed Them to Make Breakthroughs at Last

NEAR ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine—A young man emerged from the basement bleeding from his stomach. With his mohawk, pierced ears, and tattoos, everyone calls him ‘Cossack’ because of his similarity to the 17th century Ukrainian swashbucklers. Smoke was rising from all sides from the recent Russian shelling salvos all around us, although the countryside was eerily quiet. … Read more

AI pioneer Daphne Koller sees generative AI leading to cancer breakthroughs

Cody Glenn/Sportsfile via Getty Images Generative artificial intelligence, like the kind that powers OpenAI’s DALL-E, ChatGPT, and other popular programs, is going to be an important tool for breakthroughs in oncology, the study of cancer, according to Daphne Koller. Koller is an AI pioneer and co-founder and CEO of life sciences AI firm Insitro. “What … Read more