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Understanding the Epoch of Reionization, a pivotal moment when the universe emerged from darkness, presents a significant challenge for cosmologists, demanding extensive computational resources. Saptarshi Sarkar and Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, alongside their colleagues, now present a solution, developing a new framework that dramatically accelerates the process of extracting meaningful constraints from simulations. Their approach leverages the power of artificial neural networks to create an ‘emulator’ of a complex cosmological model, significantly reducing the number of computationally expensive simulations required for accurate analysis. This breakthrough achieves remarkable speedups, lowering…

Satellite communication File photo: VCGAs China’s satellite Internet of things (IoT) service moves into commercial trial operation, its launch is expected to lay a solid foundation for the construction of a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based industrial infrastructure capable of interaction and automated decision-making, a Chinese telecommunication company told the Global Times on Sunday.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially announced the launch at the opening ceremony of 2025 China “5G+ Industrial Internet” Conference on Saturday, according to a report by the People’s Daily. The commercial trial will last for two years. Unlike the satellite internet that connects people with high-speed…

Nvidia and Oracle both offer AI growth potential, but their fundamentals make one a clearer choice.Nvidia (NVDA 1.06%) and Oracle (ORCL 5.66%) sit near the center of the rush to build modern artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, making them good candidates for investors searching for AI winners. The two businesses, however, attack the trend from different angles. Nvidia designs chips and full AI computing platforms, while Oracle is the longtime enterprise software provider racing to become a major cloud infrastructure provider for AI workloads. For investors choosing between them, Nvidia brings faster growth and higher profitability, while Oracle leans on a…

Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another narrative. Yes, there are risks to democracy from AI, but there are also opportunities.We have just published the book Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform Politics, Government, and Citizenship. In it, we take a clear-eyed view of how AI is undermining confidence in our information ecosystem, how the use of biased AI can harm constituents of democracies and how elected officials with…