
BBC - 1 day 2 hours ago
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier alleges OpenAI and boss Sam Altman built a 'web of deceit'...

Observer - 1 day 3 hours ago
As A.I. grows more complex, philosophy is becoming a surprising asset in tech. From Anthropic to Google DeepMind, philosophers are helping A.I. companies tackle consciousness, ethics and the risks of advanced systems.

New York Times - 1 day 3 hours ago
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, center, during an event last month in Miami.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 3 hours ago
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems, which weren't designed with them in mind. One third of the world's Internet users are younger than 18, according to UNICEF , yet these systems shaping their daily lives were built for adults. They were optimized for engagement and designed long before people understood how profoundly digital environments influence children. For engineers and technical professionals, online safety is not an abstract...

NY Post - 1 day 4 hours ago
He's armed and ready.

GeekSpin - 1 day 4 hours ago
Google is trying to release up to 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida. The plan is part of a relatively quiet Google project called Debug, developed by Verily (Google’s parent firm Alphabet’s life sciences arm), and the company is currently waiting on federal approval to take it forward. The pitch, in the project’s own […] Read the original article here: Google plans to release 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida...

Sky News - 1 day 5 hours ago
The maker of the popular Claude AI chatbot has announced plans to become a public company.

New Scientist - 1 day 5 hours ago
Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun conducting the same test on ourselves, writes Max Moser...

GeekSpin - 1 day 8 hours ago
If you’ve hit a pothole hard enough to rattle your teeth lately, you’re not imagining things. American roads are in rough shape – roughly 40% of our 4 million miles are rated poor or mediocre. The catch is that fixing them is getting harder, not easier. The U.S. construction sector is projected to need close […] Read the original article here: How new smart machinery is solving the road worker shortage...

Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
Florida's top prosecutor just moved to make OpenAI the next big test case in tech accountability. State Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the maker of ChatGPT of putting growth ahead of user safety and misleading the public about the risks, Politico reports....

The Conversation - 1 day 9 hours ago
A photographer describes how your phone camera flattens and dulls the colors in photos and how to regain an appreciation for the wide spectrum of colors.

The Conversation - 1 day 9 hours ago
Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn't very good at navigating it.

Science Alert - 1 day 9 hours ago
"We are just scratching the surface of what these neural cultures can achieve." ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

Newser - 1 day 10 hours ago
Nvidia wants your next PC to think for itself. At Taiwan's Computex tech show on Monday, CEO Jensen Huang introduced RTX Spark, a new chip meant to run AI agents directly on laptops and desktops. Developed with Microsoft and Taiwan's MediaTek, the chip is pitched as the backbone of what...

Vox - 1 day 11 hours ago
There are many ways to bomb a college commencement speech. You can tell everyone you composed the talk while high on ayahuasca , like Chris Pan at Ohio State. You can deliver the entirety of your speech in the voices of your incredibly annoying cartoon characters , like Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke at the University of Vermont. You can even, like my graduation speaker in 2001, admonish the graduating class for depending too much on their parents and generally being an ungrateful lot, before later...

Variety - 1 day 14 hours ago
Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and his uncle, broadcaster, Cenk Uygur, have both reportedly been banned from entering the U.K. by the Home Office. The move means they will be unable to attend SXSW London, where they were scheduled to be speaking. Reps for U.K. home secretary Shabana Mahmood did not respond to queries from […]...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 8 hours ago
In 1987, Richard Greenhill , a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn't convince anyone there to build such a machine, so he set about building one himself, in his attic. To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a dozen or so like-minded folks. Every Wednesday...

NPR - 2 days 12 hours ago
Open-weight AI models with advanced capabilities and no safeguards are becoming much more accessible. While they can be useful, AI safety experts have concerns.