Category: Artificial Intelligence
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‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands
“When there are great tools out there, GSA’s job is to procure them, not make mediocre replacements,” a colleague added. “Did you use this AI to organize the [reduction in force]?” asked another federal worker. “When will the Adobe Pro be given back to us?” said another. “This is a critical program that we use…
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Is That Painting a Lost Masterpiece or a Fraud? Let’s Ask AI
Artificial intelligence has to date been enlisted as a bogeyman in cultural circles: Software will take the jobs of writers and translators, and AI-generated images ring the death toll for illustrators and graphic designers. Yet there’s a corner of high culture where AI is taking on a starring role as hero, not displacing the traditional…
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Satellite Internet Will Enable AI in Everything
T-Mobile recently partnered with Starlink to provide connectivity to customers in reception dead zones. Starlink on T-Mobile, Sag says, is an example of this satellite technology being implemented in a simple and effective way. If you go out of the range of a terrestrial T-Mobile reception tower, your phone can connect to Starlink passively, without…
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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 web, deciding for itself what links to click, what to read, and what to collate into an in-depth report. OpenAI first made…
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Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data
Nvidia has acquired synthetic data firm Gretel for nine figures, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The acquisition price exceeds Gretel’s most recent valuation of $320 million, the sources say, though the exact terms of the purchase remain unknown. Gretel and its team of approximately 80 employees will be folded into…
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Synchron’s Brain-Computer Interface Now Has Nvidia’s AI
Cosmos can also generate tokens about each avatar movement that act like time stamps, which will be used to label brain data. Labeling data enables an AI model to accurately interpret and decode brain signals and then translate those signals into the intended action. All of this data will be used to train a brain…
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FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and the agency’s landmark privacy lawsuits under former chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs were removed. On the FTC’s website,…
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Designer Ray-Ban Metas, An EV to Mock Tesla, and Portable Pizzas—Here’s Your Gear News of the Week
It’s not rocket science. A huge part of the reason why Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers are the best face computer is because a lot of people already do want to wear Ray-Ban Wayfarers. It’s a lot easier to persuade people to wear a smart accessory when that accessory looks sharp as hell. Meta has committed to…
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An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself
Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor’s official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls “locs”),…
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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,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members and introduces a request to prioritize “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing…