Топ-10 технологий на 2025-10-19
1. Silicon Valley spooks the AI safety advocates | TechCrunch
Описание: The White House’s David Sacks and OpenAI’s Jason Kwon caused a stir online this week for their comments about groups promoting AI safety.
2. Facebook’s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet
Описание: Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more “shareworthy.” The only catch is that the feature is designed for your phone’s camera roll — not the media you’ve already uploaded …
3. The US has a new roadmap for fusion energy, without the funds to back it up
Описание: The Department of Energy (DOE) released a new roadmap for the US to realize the decades-long dream of harnessing fusion energy. It’s a commitment to support research and development efforts and pursue public-private partnerships to finally build the first gen…
4. Senate Republicans deepfaked Chuck Schumer, and X hasn’t taken it down | TechCrunch
Описание: The video was posted Friday on the Senate Republicans X account. According to X’s policies, the platform prohibits “deceptively shar synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm.” Harmful content includes media that could “mislead people” or “…
5. The lab where GM is cooking up new EV batteries to beat China
Описание: Inside General Motors’ fast-growing battery labs in suburban Detroit, scientists and engineers are analyzing stresses on lithium-ion cells: desert heat, arctic cold, jungle humidity, enough charging and discharging for a half-dozen Frankenstein reboots. For T…
6. Your AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed Texas land | TechCrunch
Описание: If you’re wondering why AI companies are pursuing this path, they’ll tell you it’s not just about electricity – it’s about beating China.
7. Fictional gadget reviews: exploring the latest in fantasy and sci-fi tech
Описание: Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature extremely cool gadgets that we just wish were real, whether it’s an impossible VR headset or…
8. Should AI do everything? OpenAI thinks so | TechCrunch
Описание: Watch Equity hosts discuss how the line between innovation and responsibility is getting blurrier, plus what happens when pranks go from digital to physical.
9. The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me
Описание: Outside a florist-cum-coffee shop in upstate New York, a row of vintage cars gleam in the sun. It’s unseasonably warm for early October, so there’s a veritable crowd of car enthusiasts snapping photos of Ferraris, Porsches, and a vintage Alfa Romeo. Patient g…
10. Ex-lidar CEO makes a bid to reclaim his company
Описание: Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell abruptly resigned from his position after it was revealed he was the target of an ethics inquiry. Now, the 30-year-old billionaire is trying to wrest back control of his old company, which made him a f…