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  • Turning Tech Talent Into Leadership Legacy

    Transitioning from years of working in a senior technical or executive role to a leadership position is one of the most challenging phases of a STEM career.

    IEEE Spectrum4 min read

  • Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics5 min read

  • Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

    This article is brought to you by VicOne.Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears to have failed?As AI…

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics5 min read

  • The AI Inference Revolution Is Here

    Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions.

    IEEE Spectrum16 min read

  • The Mind-bending Joyrides That Gave Rise to Tesla

    In 2003, Martin Eberhard, a cofounder of Tesla Motors, decided it was time to start wooing investors. To do that, however, he needed an electric car. So he talked to Alan Cocconi and asked if he could borrow the tZero, the revolutionary and blazingly fast electric roadster that Cocconi had built at…

    IEEE Spectrum17 min read

  • Countries Seek to Curb Social Media Addiction for Kids

    Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves.The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as their cognitive and social development.The…

    IEEE Spectrum7 min read

  • How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

    On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second.

    IEEE Spectrum AI8 min read

  • Adversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms

    AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates. But a public backlash is gaining momentum.Privacy concerns abound, encompassing the lack of consent for capturing data, how that data is stored and used, and the risk of misuse.

    IEEE Spectrum AI5 min read

  • IEEE to Reward Sections for High Voter Turnout in Annual Election

    For this year’s IEEE annual election, the IEEE Tellers Committee will recognize the Sections with the highest voter turnout (based on total eligible voters) in each Region with an incentive reward after the election results are accepted by the IEEE Board of Directors.The incentive initiative is…

    IEEE Spectrum1 min read

  • Video Friday: Humanoid Robot Takes On Monkey Bars

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read

  • Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91

    Franklin “Frank” KuoCodeveloper of ALOHAnetFellow, 91; died 14 AprilKuo helped develop ALOHAnet, a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, in Honolulu. The system went online in 1971 and represented the first public demonstration of a wireless packet data network.

    IEEE Spectrum7 min read

  • Robots Are Learning to Feel

    Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics7 min read

  • An Engineer’s Guide to Surviving a Layoff

    This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!I lost a cushy engineering management position at…

    IEEE Spectrum5 min read

  • AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?

    On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own text watermark (which Anthropic’s is based on) that it uses on the output of its Gemini models.

    IEEE Spectrum AI7 min read

  • China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

    In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose.“He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar,” one user of Bytedance’s Douboa wrote, according to the Taipei Times.

    IEEE Spectrum AI7 min read

  • AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code

    AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed.

    IEEE Spectrum AI6 min read

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