Will Knight

Advertisment

The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff

A new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing returns compared to smaller models. By mapping scaling laws against continued improvements in model...

This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek Moment

Ever since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open approach to building AI...

OpenAI’s Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI

OpenAI announced on Monday that it will acquire several data centers’ worth of chips from AMD in a blockbuster deal that could also give OpenAI the option to acquire a roughly 10...

Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye

Before you close this browser tab, just know that you risk missing out on some very important information. If you want to understand the subtle hold that artificial intelligence has over you,...

Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product

Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product—a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models.“We believe ...

This AI-Powered Robot Keeps Going Even if You Attack It With a Chainsaw

A four-legged robot that keeps crawling even after all four of its legs have been hacked off with a chainsaw is the stuff of nightmares for most people.For Deepak Pathak, cofounder and...

How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More

In an increasingly divided world, one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that artificial intelligence is a hugely disruptive—and sometimes downright destructive—phenomenon.At WIRED’s AI Power Summit in New York on...

USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot

The publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new...

Will Knight

Advertisment