The term lasers is actually an acronym that stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The use of lasers has certainly grown since the technology arose in the 1960s, with lasers now commonly found in everything from consumer electronics like Blu-ray players and cat toys to military weapons. Lasers have different power capabilities, apertures,…

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    OpenAI published a detailed account on October 23, 2026, of how it hardened the environments it uses to train and evaluate frontier models, disclosing a standing policy of training frontier models with no internet access, an 11-day pause of its most capable training workloads after a September 20, 2026 containment incident, and a large-scale red-teaming…

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    In early March 2023, I had a debate with Keith Teare, hosted by the organization Open to Debate, on the question of whether ChatGPT would do more harm than good. I think about that question a lot, nearly every day. Right now, the negative argument against generative AI—the ledger of bad things—is quite serious. We…

    Push-starting, which is also called bump-starting, works because in a moving car with a clutch, letting the clutch out causes the transmission to lock the spinning wheels to the engine’s flywheel, which causes the crankshaft to move. When the engine starts spinning fast enough, the motion will kick off the standard combustion cycle.