Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
…Last week The New York Times reported that Google had entered into a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its AI for “any lawful government purpose.” (On Friday, the US Department of…
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Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
…At the onset of the generative AI boom, several companies raced to be the first to sell fresh hardware imbued with large language models—with some promising to be so useful that…
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…1,000 top engineers to a new Applied AI Engineering division working on tools and data to help research scientists develop better generative AI models. Anyone refusing a transfer faced the prospect…
Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems
…YJ Song, a vice president of engineering at Meta, says that AI models are evolving faster than traditional chip development cycles, so AI workloads may change substantially by the time new hardware…
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
…Besides nimble fingers and a new brain, the new H2 Plus blueprint comes with security features that seem designed to reassure users that their data and models are safe. Nvidia’s chips…
Samsung Bets Big On Art With Its New OLED and Frame TVs
…Sizes include a 55-inch model (pricing and availability yet to come), alongside 65-, 75-, and 85-inch displays. The regular Frame model will share in Samsung's new glare-reduction tech…
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced new AI models in recent weeks that the companies say have advanced cybersecurity capabilities that could represent a turning point in how defenders—and, crucially, attackers…
The Battle of the $400 Digital Notebooks: Meet the Winner
…You can also use an AI-powered notebook search on the new Kindle Scribe that you can't on the older model. I don't feel the AI is a big need…
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
…Earlier this year, Musk criticized Anthropic’s AI models in a post on X, calling the company’s policies “misanthropic” and “evil,” and alleging without evidence that the AI models showed racial…
These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost
…The ability to point a camera at a painting and ask an AI chatbot about it isn’t exactly a new feat. Phone apps like Google Lens have had these features for…