Nuclear weapons: France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests

One Ethereum wallet spent 500 ETH to spread a sinister message through Etherscan. The message, alleging mind control and malicious actions, burned around $1.38M to a dead-end address to spread the allegations about a firm named Kuande Investments

Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024

Google has spent the last few years shooting itself in the foot

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify

estimate about $3.7bn in trade finance was supplied to oil and gas projects despite bank’s green pledges

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