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Amazon’s AGI Lab Reveals Its First Work: Advanced AI Agents

Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, but it has quietly created a lab that is now setting records when it...

How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

Extropic is not a normal startup. But then, these are hardly normal times.The company is developing a radical new kind of computer chip that harnesses the thermodynamic fluctuations that naturally occur within...

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for clean labeled...

Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers

Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes is so important to the future of humanity that he’s asked me...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work

Isla Fulford, a researcher at OpenAI, had a hunch that Deep Research would be a hit even before it was released.Fulford had helped build the artificial intelligence agent, which autonomously explores the...

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,”...

Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws

In late 2023, a team of third-party researchers discovered a troubling glitch in OpenAI’s widely used artificial intelligence model GPT-3.5.When asked to repeat certain words a thousand times, the model began repeating...

Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World

In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of today’s best AI is that, for now, it remains squarely trapped inside...

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