To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace

A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.

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Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

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Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.

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David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83

His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.

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Energy Department Unveils New Supercomputer That Merges With A.I.

The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems.

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Nvidia’s Global Chips Sales Could Collide With US-China Tensions

The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.

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