Billy Perrigo

1 week ago | time.com | Billy Perrigo

This story is part of the 2025 TIME100. Read Jennifer Doudna’s tribute to Demis Hassabis here. Demis Hassabis learned he had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry just 20 minutes before the world did. The CEO of Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s artificial intelligence lab, received a phone call with the good news at the last minute, after a failed attempt by the Nobel Foundation to find his contact information in advance.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

Robotic arms at a factory of Estun Automation in Nanjing, China, on April 7, 2025. Credit - Xue Jinlong/VCG via Getty ImagesAnnouncing his tariffs in the White House Rose Garden last week, President Trump said the move would help reopen shuttered car factories in Michigan and bring various other jobs back to the U.S.“The president wants to increase manufacturing jobs here in the United States of America,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added on Tuesday.

2 weeks ago | time.com | Billy Perrigo

Stocks in AI companies were among the biggest losers after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners last week, in a sign that those tariffs could be bad news for the industry. The companies at the forefront of the AI industry are currently spending hundreds of billions of dollars on building new datacenters to train AI models. Tariffs will increase the already gargantuan costs of those efforts, analysts say.

3 weeks ago | time.com | Billy Perrigo

Rami Sinno is crouched beside a filing cabinet, wrestling a beach-ball sized disc out of a box, when a dull thump echoes around his laboratory. “I just dropped tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of material,” he says with a laugh. Straightening up, Sinno reveals the goods: a golden silicon wafer, which glitters in the fluorescent light of the lab. This circular platter is divided into some 100 rectangular tiles, each of which contains billions of microscopic electrical switches.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Billy Perrigo

9 hours agoAugment Code debuts AI agent with 70% win rate over GitHub Copilot and record-breaking SWE-bench scoreAugment Code, an AI coding assistant startup, unveiled its new “Augment Agent” technology today, designed to tackle the complexity of large software engineering projects rather than simple code generation.