AI systems are getting better at tricking us
The fact that an AI model has the potential to behave in a deceptive manner without any direction to do so may seem concerning....
Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its new ban of a...
The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, unlike a criminal prosecution—meaning it...
OpenAI unveils specs for desired AI model behavior
In a bid to “deepen the public conversation about how AI models should behave,” AI company OpenAI has introduced Model Spec, a document that...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design
Rather than building a device from the ground up, Synchron and Paradromics have taken inspiration from previous medical devices. Paradromics’ design, for instance, is...
How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, almost all of us have at least trace amounts of methylmercury—the form of mercury we tend to...
Red Hat’s Podman AI Lab supports developer adoption of genAI
Red Hat has unveiled Podman AI Lab, an extension to the Podman Desktop graphical interface that lets developers build generative AI-powered applications in containers.Announced...
Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life
While the previous model, released in 2020, amazed the research community with its ability to predict proteins structures, researchers have been clamoring for the...
C’mon, Why Isn’t the New Apple Pencil Pro Backward Compatible?
But what's grinding my gears is that the new Apple Pencil Pro works only with the new 2024 iPad Pro and iPad Air models....
Deno boosts language server performance
With newly introduced Deno 1.43, the developers of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime have enhanced its language server, speeding up auto-completion performance and improving memory consumption.Introduced...
The way whales communicate is closer to human language than we realized
A team of researchers led by Pratyusha Sharma at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) working with Project CETI, a nonprofit focused...
