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GeekSpin - 13 hours 16 min agoArtificial intelligence is supposed to make healthcare faster and more efficient, but new data suggest it may also be driving up medical bills. Hospitals are increasingly using AI-powered tools to help identify and code patients' medical conditions, and that shift may have contributed to nearly $1 billion in additional insurance costs. The technology could help […] Read the original article here: Hospital AI use caused medical bills to surge by $1 billion...
Reported admission to investors of AI's self-preserving behaviours' comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation Anthropic is telling investors that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity", according to reports, as it prepares for a potential $2tn ( 1.5tn) flotation. The warning inside the startup's IPO prospectus, which has yet to be made public, was reported by Reuters and the Financial Times. It follows the company's call for...
A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.
NPR - 15 hours 30 min agoNPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with AI security expert Helen Toner about OpenAI's decision to halt training of its latest models, after discovering more instances of its agents behaving unexpectedly.
Nvidia thinks it has a fix for one of AI's scariest habits: trying to bust out of its digital cage. On Monday, the chip giant unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform, software meant to keep AI agents from escaping their confines, roaming the internet, and poking at outside computer systems,...
An OpenAI booth at a technology conference in San Francisco this month. The company said its new GPT-6.1 Astra model exhibited high levels of deception and a willingness to go beyond the scope of its given task.
The FBI is scrambling to assess what one expert calls a potentially history-making data breach that may have exposed intimate details on tens of thousands of its own people, the New York Times reports. Criminal hacking group ShinyHunters says it broke into FBIJobs.gov and grabbed home addresses, Social Security...
ABC News - 1 day 5 min agoNASA is throwing extra support and money behind Boeing's troubled astronaut capsule to get it fixed and flying again as soon as possible...
OpenAI just binned a major new AI model days before its planned debut, citing behavior that was too slippery for comfort, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company says GPT-6.1 Astra, which was supposed to roll out in October, was more powerful than its predecessor but flunked key "alignment"...
OpenAI has scrapped plans to release its new AI model amid safety concerns, after it showed "higher levels of deception" than its predecessor.
NPR - 1 day 1 hour agoMuch of what we are hearing about AI leaves many people anxious about the risks posed by the technology. The writer Michael Sacacas takes a long view of how to manage such feelings.
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support greater independence. In this Robots Guide profile, Kemp shares his path from studying artificial intelligence at MIT to building Stretch, explains how working with people with disabilities has shaped his approach, and offers advice for aspiring roboticists. Read...
It's impossible to know the extent of the AI-hacking crisis.
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 11 hours agoWhether you prefer iOS or Android, these new phones have the best cameras and exciting new features that will make the upgrade feel special.
All the training data in the world can't account for every possibility when AI systems interact with people and the environment.
President Donald Trump hosted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House for a private dinner Sunday night. Amodei has been pushing for an industry-wide slowdown and warning that rapid AI development poses a significant risk, while Trump says he's not worried about AI going rogue. Their dinner comes ahead of a key White House summit with some of the industry's other top executives. NBC's Hallie Jackson reports for TODAY.
Audio firm Taction Technology claimed Apple infringed its patents for tech used to power device vibrations.
My job is to translate dry and unrelenting code into a user interface of surpassing beauty. With my mouse, I roll one pixel after another up the vast anthill of the internet. My dream is to translate the visions of the holy ones into a communication protocol of universal wonderment. I want to launch shreds of light into the air to fall like a layer of diamonds on the endless mountains of the Web. Don't imagine these dreams are limited by the LANs of the software lab. Between here and the ultimate...
Vox - 2 days 12 hours agoRecently, while taking the metro to work, I encountered something that shocked me. The train was pulling up, just as the man in front of me tapped to pay to go through the gate, and a woman pushed past me to cut me in line. I still made the train (after I briefly considered acting in a way that would have made us both late for work), but as I passed each stop I got angrier and angrier. Why did she think her commute was more important than someone else's? We learn to wait our turn when we're...
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