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Singapore’s Vision for AI Safety Bridges the US-China Divide

The government of Singapore released a blueprint today for global collaboration on artificial intelligence safety following a meeting of AI researchers from the US, China, and Europe. The document lays out a...

Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers.The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step towards making...

These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers

Researchers have trained a new kind of large language model (LLM) using GPUs dotted across the world and fed private as well as public data—a move that suggests that the dominant way...

Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities

In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on behalf of humans, including using computers and smartphones. For now, though, they’re too error prone to...

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up efforts to fend off increasingly stiff competition from companies...

Hugging Face Acquires Pollen Robotics to Unleash Open Source AI Robots

Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence models and software, announced today that it has acquired Pollen Robotics, the French startup behind the bug-eyed, two-armed, humanoid robot called Reachy...

The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory

Zico Kolter has a knack for getting artificial intelligence to misbehave in interesting and important ways. His research group at Carnegie Mellon University has discovered numerous methods of tricking, goading, and confusing...

The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US

The year that ChatGPT went viral, only two US companies—OpenAI and Google—could boast truly cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Three years on, AI is no longer a two-horse race, nor is it purely an...

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