Sam Altman reportedly courted Pang for months. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Ruoming Pang, a prominent A.I. researcher recruited by Meta last year with a pay package reportedly worth more…
Read more Ruoming Pang, Meta’s $200M Superintelligence Hire, Jumps to OpenAI After Just 7 MonthsShare More research on the threats of artificial intelligence (AI) “needs to be done urgently”, the boss of Google DeepMind has told BBC News. In an exclusive interview…
Read more Google boss says research needed on AI threats, Microsoft confirms private emails read by Copilot AI – Tech DigestA.I. pioneer Fei-Fei Li is lending her support to Simile’s effort to simulate human behavior at scale. John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images Every three months, public companies brace…
Read more Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy Back a New A.I. Use Case: Simulating Human BehaviorElon Musk’s xAI has lost half of its 12-person founding team. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Just days after Elon Musk merged his A.I. startup, xAI, with SpaceX…
Read more Elon Musk Loses Half of xAI’s Founding Team—Where They’ve Gone NextDarren Aronofsky used to be a director who made interesting, if sometimes polarizing, films like Black Swan, Mother!, Noah, and The Wrestler. But it seems like a safe…
Read more Darren Aronofsky’s New AI Series About the Revolutionary War Looks Like DogshitGoogle DeepMind is opening up access to Project Genie, its AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images. Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers…
Read more I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator | TechCrunchFrom infrastructure battles to physical-world intelligence, A.I.’s next chapter is already taking shape. Unsplash In November, ChatGPT turned three, with a global user base rapidly approaching one billion.…
Read more 4 A.I. Themes That Defined 2025 and Are Shaping What Comes NextUniversities are rapidly expanding A.I. programs as students seek skills that can withstand an increasingly automated future. Photo by: Jumping Rocks/Universal Images Group via Getty Images When Chris…
Read more A.I. Degrees Boom as Students Prepare for an Uncertain Job MarketSamsung has that it “aims to be the first” to natively integrate Google Photos into TVs. The aim is for Google Photos to work seamlessly with , Samsung’s…
Read more Samsung plans to integrate Google Photos into its TVsAI lab GoogleDeepMind announced a major new partnership with the U.K. government Wednesday, pledging to accelerate breakthroughs in materials science and clean energy, including nuclear fusion, as well…
Read more Google DeepMind agrees to sweeping research collaboration with the U.K. government | FortuneGoogle Alphabet (GOOG) shares rose 2.1% after reports that Meta is in advanced talks to spend billions on Google’s TPU chips instead of NVIDIA GPUs. Google TPUs are…
Read more GOOG Stock Soars To All Time Highs on NVDA Chip ComparisionWith games teaching models to act, the future of creative technology is being prototyped in virtual worlds. Unsplash+ When Electronic Arts (EA) announced its partnership with Stability AI,…
Read more Why Game Engines Are Becoming A.I.’s Most Important TestbedsHiroaki Kitano launched the Nobel Turing Challenge back in 2016. Courtesy Sony Computer Science Laboratories For more than a century, early October has marked the arrival of Nobel…
Read more This Scientist Thinks an A.I. Could Win a Nobel Prize by 2050When algorithms start to imagine, human decision-making enters uncharted territory. Unsplash+ In boardrooms, creativity is often conflated with charisma—a founder’s flash of insight, a strategist’s “feel” for the…
Read more Machine Intuition: Can A.I. Out-Innovate Human Strategy?Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led Cognition’s latest $400 million funding round. Photo by Nordin Catic/Getty Images for The Cambridge Union Cognition AI, the San Francisco-based startup known for…
Read more Startup Behind Goldman Sachs’ First ‘A.I. Employee’ Valued at $10B After Peter Thiel FundingA.I. startup Anthropic is best known for its Claude chatbot. Courtesy Anthropic Last year, Anthropic hired its first-ever A.I. welfare researcher, Kyle Fish, to examine whether A.I. models…
Read more Anthropic Is Hiring Researchers to Study A.I. Consciousness and WelfareCEO Arthur Mensch is steering Mistral away from the AGI hype and toward Europe’s A.I. sovereignty. Photo by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images Paris-based Mistral AI is on…
Read more Paris-Based Mistral AI Seeks $14B Valuation as Europe Charts Its Own A.I. PathHugo Larochelle assumed his new role as head of Mila on Sept. 2. BENEDICTE BROCARD Hugo Larochelle first caught the A.I. research bug after interning in the lab…
Read more Hugo Larochelle Succeeds Yoshua Bengio to Lead Canada’s Top A.I. Lab: InterviewMustafa Suleyman joined Microsoft last year to head up its consumer A.I. efforts. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Will A.I. systems ever achieve human-like “consciousness?” Given the field’s rapid pace,…
Read more Microsoft A.I. Chief Mustafa Suleyman Sounds Alarm on ‘Seemingly Conscious A.I.’Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, computer-themed art. Last…
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