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If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in a conference room...

I Opted Out of AI Training. Does This Reduce My Future Influence?

If we all start opting out of our posts being used for training models, doesn't that reduce the influence of our unique voice...

How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the...

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...

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are as conspicuous as...

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...

Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved

Chatbots are now a routine part of everyday life, even if artificial intelligence researchers are not always sure how the programs will behave.A...

Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans...

OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive

GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at understanding what ChatGPT...

DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator

The current balance in the LOCCS system, according to a record reviewed by WIRED, is over $100 billion—money Congress has approved for HUD...

Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks

Reinforcement learning is a decades-old way of having a computer learn to do something through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback. It...

Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

The difference between a conventional model and a reasoning one is similar to the two types of thinking described by the Nobel-prize-winning economist...