Combining generative AI with reinforcement learning can help the U.S. win the race to fusion energy by finding better ways to reach the plasma temperatures and pressures needed for fusion power plants ...

Abstract: Video summarization and captioning condense content by selecting keyframes and generating language descriptions, integrating both visual and textual perspectives. Existing video-and-language ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed across nearly every arena, including space. The rivalry shifted dramatically on Oct. 4, 1957, when the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the ...

Claims of “net energy gain” in fusion experiments often exclude the massive energy consumed by the full system, leading to misleading headlines. Even under optimistic timelines, commercial fusion ...

President Donald Trump’s failing social media tech bid has tirelessly tried to reinvent itself into a viable business. The company, which owns Trump’s online megaphone Truth Social and is being run by ...

Trump Media just announced a $6 billion deal with an Alphabet-backed outfit that would create one of the first publicly traded fusion companies. Reading time 2 minutes The parent company of Truth ...

Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company part owned by President Trump, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.” By Matthew Goldstein Jonathan Wolfe ...

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis was hidden in a process so ambitious, so technically demanding, that even experts once dismissed it as science fiction? For decades, nuclear fusion ...

The promise of nuclear fusion feels simple. Just as stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements to produce energy, a fusion reactor generates massive amounts of energy by combining lightweight particles ...

GREIFSWALD, GERMANY - OCTOBER 29: A worker explains a photo taken about a year and a half ago that shows construction of the interior plasma chamber of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor ...

Fusion power is a means of deriving electrical power from the heat released during nuclear fusion reactions, and it's been a long-time dream to produce a working reactor. Fusion occurs when two light ...