Algorithms from the 1980s power today's AI breakthroughs, earn Turing Award for researchers

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for developing key technologies that power modern artificial intelligence, including recent breakthroughs in large reasoning models. [...]

Anthropic's Jack Clark compares AI breakthroughs to hammers that suddenly become self-aware

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark offers a look at how Silicon Valley AI leaders are thinking about the future of AI.<br /> The article Anthropic's Jack Clark compares AI breakthroughs to ham [...]

Trump's Genesis Mission aims to build a centralized AI platform to power scientific breakthroughs

President Donald Trump has issued a new Executive Order that launches the “Genesis Mission,” an AI-focused initiative that will be led by the Department of Energy. It will “harness the current A [...]

Inflection AI returns to consumer market with Pi Journeys after Microsoft upheaval

Inflection AI, the Palo Alto startup that two years ago became Silicon Valley's most famous cautionary tale about the brutal economics of frontier AI, announced Tuesday that it is returning to th [...]

The long-predicted deepfake dystopia has arrived with Sora 2

A new investigation shows how easily OpenAI's Sora 2 video model can generate convincing fake footage, making targeted disinformation campaigns much simpler.<br /> The article The long-pred [...]

Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen

IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement. In a new blog post, he takes stock. Several of [...]

Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months

The Five Eyes intelligence agencies warn: AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are only months away. That's according to the Guardian.<br /> The article Five Eyes int [...]

Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: The tankiest foldable

Every good device builds upon the generation that came before it. In the seven years or so that foldable phones have been around, we've seen some incredible breakthroughs. For all its flaws, the [...]

“It’s cheaper for you and more profitable for us”: In 1998, Larry Ellison predicted the world we live in today, where you pay over and over for software you don’t own

Larry Ellison’s 1998 vision of leasing software predicted today’s cloud subscriptions and the end of traditional software ownership. [...]