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The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change
A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for monitoring and…
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Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset
When Palmer Luckey was hacking together virtual reality headsets at his startup Oculus VR in the mid-2010s, he would sometimes…
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OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step
OpenAI made the last big breakthrough in artificial intelligence by increasing the size of its models to dizzying proportions, when…
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This New Tech Puts AI In Touch with Its Emotions—and Yours
A new “empathic voice interface” launched today by Hume AI, a New York–based startup, makes it possible to add a…
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Why Is AI So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris?
When Elon Musk shared an image showing Kamala Harris dressed as a “communist dictator” on X last week, it was…
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Could This Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution?
In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of its…
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An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments
At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of…
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Researchers Have Ranked AI Models Based on Risk—and Found a Wild Range
Bo Li, an associate professor at the University of Chicago who specializes in stress testing and provoking AI models to…
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Palmer Luckey’s Defense Startup, Anduril, Raises $1.5 Billion to Produce AI-Powered Weapons
Palmer Luckey has come a long way from hacking together virtual reality headsets in a garage. Today, the Oculus VR…
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A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI
When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple…
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