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Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World Models
[ad_1] Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads. But it’s yet to run into…
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Tesla Appears to Have Moved Its Robotaxi Safety Monitors to a More Sneaky Location
[ad_1] Tesla’s self-driving Robotaxis have been operating in Austin, Texas, with a safety monitor in the passenger seat, a trained person who can intervene…
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Engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
[ad_1] Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to talk about the inner workings…
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AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds
[ad_1] AI image generation models have massive sets of visual data to pull from in order to create unique outputs. And yet, researchers find…
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Do Not, Under Any Circumstance, Buy Your Kid an AI Toy for Christmas
[ad_1] AI is all the rage, and that includes on the toy shelves for this holiday season. Tempting though it may be to want…
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Jeff Bezos’s New AI Hardware Startup Isn’t Even His Biggest Moonshot
[ad_1] Here on Earth, regulators and citizens alike are realizing that there may be downsides to going all in on the demands of AI…
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Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?
[ad_1] Is it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that are…
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Small Towns Are Betting That the Data Center Boom Will Never End
[ad_1] What happens when data centers come to town? A whole lot, wanted or not. Tech firms are promising to pour trillions of dollars…
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Meta Says Porn Stash was for ‘Personal Use,’ Not Training AI Models
[ad_1] Meta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny. The…
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What’s Scarier Than a Haunted House? An AI Data Center
[ad_1] The owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the humming…
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OpenAI Data Shows Hundreds of Thousands of Users Display Signs of Mental Health Challenges
[ad_1] OpenAI claims that 10% of the world’s population currently uses ChatGPT on a weekly basis. In a report published by on Monday, OpenAI…
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Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI Team
[ad_1] Meta has thrown billions of dollars at its artificial intelligence efforts. Somehow, that is apparently resulting in fewer people being employed. According to…
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OpenAI Launches the AI Browser War
[ad_1] ChatGPT has broken out of the chatbot. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is launching a web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, which it…
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Looks Like JD Vance Didn’t Get the Memo That This Admin Hates AI Guardrails
[ad_1] Republicans have largely been embracing a “hands-off” approach to regulating artificial intelligence, but Vice President JD Vance has found where he draws the…
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Even the Inventor of ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Vibe Coding Can’t Cut It
[ad_1] It’s been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he’s been gone, he coined and…
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Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It’s Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPT
[ad_1] Earlier this year, OpenAI scaled back some of ChatGPT’s “personality” as part of a broader effort to improve user safety following the death…
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Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok Prank
[ad_1] Finally, generative AI has found its purpose: letting kids prank parents. In an apparent new social media trend, kids are creating AI-generated images…
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You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out
[ad_1] The complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially…
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OpenAI Goes All-In on Vibe Coding, Says ‘Mature Experiences’ Are on the Horizon
[ad_1] OpenAI’s DevDay 2025 featured a major focus on vibe coding. The company, which boasts that it now has more than 800 million weekly…
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Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos
[ad_1] Taylor Swift once said, “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have…